Healthier Horizons Modernising Scientific Careers North West Action Plan Neil McLauchlan Assistant...

Healthier Horizons

Modernising Scientific CareersNorth West Action Plan

Neil McLauchlan

Assistant Director for Education Commissioning

Better Care Better Health Better Life

Modernising Scientific Careers: Career and Training Pathways

Careers inPractice, Leadership & Management Training and EducationR & D

Associates andAssistants (HCSA)

Learning and Development Framework

Healthcare Science Practitioner (HCSP)

Practitioner Training Programme (PTP)

Integrated BSc

Scientist Training Programme (STP)

Direct Entry

SeniorHealthcare Scientist

Healthcare scientist

ASE**

*Regulation as a Healthcare Science Practitioner

*Regulation as a Healthcare Scientist

Higher Specialist Scientific Training (HSST)

Graduate Direct Entry

*Higher Specialist Scientific Register

Potential equivalence route

Consultant Healthcare Scientist Appointment


9

8

7

6

5

4

3

2

1*Subject to public consultation

** Accredited Specialist Expertise


Healthcare Science Assistant

Functional Role Career Pathway

Stage

Awards & Qualifications

e.g. Apprenticeship / NVQ 3/SVQs/ or equivalents

3

2

Education and Training Programme

Entry Point

Direct recruitment into employment

Direct recruitment into employment

Healthcare Science Assistant (HCSA)

Assistant Training Programme

Potential Progression

Healthcare Science

Associate

e.g. NVQ 2, SVQ or equivalents

Senior Healthcare Science Assistant

(HCSA)

Direct recruitment into employment or

promotion from career framework

stage 2

1Primarily an entry point

3

Healthcare Science Assistants (HCSA) will undertake a range of clearly defined task and protocol-based roles, supervised by Healthcare Science Associates, or by Healthcare Science Practitioners, depending on the needs of the service. Experienced Assistants would be able to progress to Associate posts. They will have opportunities to attain vocational training qualifications.


Healthcare Science Associate

Functional Role Career Pathway Stage


e.g. FoundationDegree or HNC

4


Entry Point

Direct recruitment into employment or promotion from assistant career grade

Healthcare Science Associate (HCSA)

Associate Training Programme

Potential progression into further training

programme Some Healthcare Science Associates

may be regulated (depending on role and

risk to patients)

Potential progression

Senior Associate, more managerial

4

Practitioner Training Programme

Healthcare Science Associates (HCSAssoc) at Career Framework four will undertake more advanced and complex investigative tasks and treatment protocol-based procedures than Assistants, with appropriate supervision, either by a Healthcare Science Practitioner, or a Healthcare Scientist. This will depend on the needs of the service and on the scope for technology to automate or standardise certain tasks and procedures and the ability to define protocols and activities.


Healthcare SciencePractitioner

Functional Role Awards & Qualifications

BSc (Hons) in Healthcare Science

5


Entry Point



Senior HCSP• Management• Education/• R & D• Practice

Three year integrated degree programme (inc experiential learning)In Scotland this will be four years**

Direct entry to degree programme or through local employment progression pathway

Healthcare Science Practitioner (HCSP)

Competitive entry to STP or through

local employment progression

pathway

* Regulation as a Healthcare Science

Practitioner

6

5

Career Pathway

stage

Healthcare Science Practitioners (HCSP) will have the necessary expertise in applied scientific techniques within a discipline or related disciplines and will work in a range of healthcare settings, with a clearly defined technologically based role in the delivery and technical reporting of quality assured tests, investigations and interventions for patients, on samples or equipment. In a number of disciplines, HCSP will provide therapeutic interventions, some of which may be specialist.

*Subject to public consultation

** Undergraduate BSC Hons degrees in Scotland run for 4 years as the entry point for the majority of students is a year earlier than in other UK countries. Higher degrees, such as MSc and PhD in Scotland, follow a UK level format.

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HCSP – Training (PTP)

Year 2Techniques & Methodologies

Year 3Application to Practice

Year 1Scientific Basics

Academic

Increasing specialisation & supporting science

Academic learning to support workplace skills development

Core Specialisms: one of: •Blood Diagnostics•Infection Diagnostics•Tissues and Cellular Diagnostics•Genetics Technology

PRACTITIONER TRAINING PROGRAMME [PTP] – Life Sciences

Workplace-based

Clinical experience

Core Specialism and Project

Divisional Focus – Life Sciences

Introductory Block across Healthcare Science

Work placements

Increasing experientiallearning (up to maximum of 50 weeks)

Integrated BSc (Hons) in Healthcare Science with a Certificate of Competence


Healthcare Scientist

Functional RoleAwards & Qualifications

Masters degree and Certificate of Attainment

(experiential component)


Entry Point



Senior HCS (may attain ASE**)• Leadership• Education• Practice

Direct for graduate with relevant

degree (inc HCSPs) or local

employment progression

pathway

Competitive entry to Higher Specialist Scientific Training (HSST)

* Regulation as a Healthcare Scientist

*HigherSpecialist Scientific Register

3 year clinical/scientific

rotational experiential programme with

associated Masters level programme

Healthcare Scientist (HCS)

7


7

6

Career Pathway

stage

Healthcare Scientists (HCS) will have clinical and specialist expertise underpinned by theoretical knowledge and experience in a specific clinical discipline, underpinned by broader knowledge and experience within a healthcare science theme. They will undertake complex scientific and clinical roles, defining and choosing investigative and clinical options, and making key judgements about complex facts and clinical situations. Many will work directly with patients. They will be involved, often in lead roles, in innovation and improvement, research and development and education and training. Some will pursue explicit academic career pathways which combine clinical practice and academic activity in research, innovation and education. They may be regulated following award of an approved Masters qualification and completion of work-based training.

* Subject to public consultation

** Accredited Specialist Expertise


HCS – Training (STP)

ROTATIONS (12 months)4 x 3 months

Rotational Programme – Overview

Single Specialism (18 months)

Specialism 1Specialism 1 Specialism 2Specialism 2 Specialism 3Specialism 3

Introductory Academic Block – 3 months

Specialism 4Specialism 4

Elective – one from any healthcare science discipline or a related clinical service (for 4 – 6 weeks)




Rotational Programme – Blood Sciences

Specialism (18 months) – one from:• Clinical Biochemistry• Haematology/Transfusion Science• Immunology• Genetics

BiochemistryBiochemistryHaematology/Transfusion

Science

Haematology/Transfusion

ScienceImmunologyImmunology


Molecular Science

(mandatory)

Molecular Science

(mandatory)





Rotational Programme – Cellular Sciences

Specialism (18 months) – one from:

• Histopathology• Cytopathology• Reproductive Science•Genetics

HistologyHistology GeneticsGenetics CytologyCytology


MolecularScience

(mandatory)

MolecularScience

(mandatory)





Rotational Programme – Infection Sciences

Specialism (18 months)

General microbiology including infection control and epidemiology, virology, bacteriology, mycology and parasitology



Infection Control& Epidemiology

Infection Control& Epidemiology BacteriologyBacteriology VirologyVirology

MolecularScience

(mandatory)

MolecularScience

(mandatory)


Senior Healthcare Scientist



To be confirmed

8

7


Entry Point


Continuing professional development which may

include Accredited Specialist Expertise (ASE)

programmes

Registered Healthcare Scientist

Senior Healthcare Scientist (SHCS)

Consultant • Leadership• Education• Research• Advanced Practice

Registered Healthcare Scientist

(opportunity to apply through

equivalence for registration as HCS

12

A Senior Healthcare Scientist undertaking advanced scientific practice will be a healthcare scientist who has progressed competitively following qualification to a specialist post, and will have developed skills and theoretical knowledge to a very high standard. A senior healthcare scientist will undertake highly complex roles within a defined field, with a role in research and development, innovation and/or in education.


Consultant Healthcare Scientist



Still to be determined 9


Entry Point

HSST in defined disciplines or evidenced CPD to required outcomes

Registered HCS

Consultant Healthcare Scientist

Leadership in:-• Practice• Innovation• R and D

13

Consultant Healthcare Scientist will provide clinical and scientific expertise and leadership; provide consultant level advice within the context of direct patient care; give strategic direction, innovate and provide highly developed and specialised skills for service development and provision; initiate or lead formal research activities, innovation and improvement; lead education and training activities


NW Action Plan

• Identifying SHA leadership for implementation of MSC• A plan for delivering commitments in Modernising

Scientific Careers: The England Action Plan including clear deliverables and how these will be monitored

• A plan for managing the pace of change in relation to the commissioning and funding of MSC programmes

• Details of how early adopters will be identified and managed

• How stakeholders (including Trades Unions) will be engaged

• How the plan will be delivered


Governance - Organisational Chart

SHA

NW MSC Oversight Board

National MSC TeamDepartment of Health

Regional HCS Networks:

•Greater Manchester

•Cumbria & Lancashire

•Cheshire & Mersey

Divisional HCS Workforce Groups:

•Life Sciences

•Clinical Physiology

•Clinical Engineering & Physical Sciences

Healthcare Science Service Providers

Healthcare Science Academic Providers

Strategic

Operational - Regional

Operational – Local


NW MSC Oversight Board

• To lead the implementation of MSC within the North West

• To agree with the MCS Divisional Workforce Groups action plans for the implementation of MSC and monitor their implementation and evaluation

• To identify and advise on mitigating actions to manage any risks associated with the implementation of MSC

• To make recommendations to the SHA with regard to securing of the supply of Healthcare Scientists during the transition to MSC


Operational Delivery

• NW MSC Oversight Board

• Role of the Divisional Workforce Groups

• Role of the Regional Healthcare Science Groups

• Local collaboration and partnership working between Universities and service leads


Education Commissioning

• Bands 1 to 4 – NVQ, Apprenticeships, Foundation Degree

• PTP – Local, HEFCE funded, placement model, workforce demand and modernisation

• STP – Lead commissioning (NHSWM), national tendering, central recruitment, placement rotations


Challenges

• New roles• Work-based learning and placement model• Regulation• Funding• Service transformation – pathology modernisation,

competition, innovation, technology• White paper• Education supply v demand out of balance• Impact of Brown and changes to HE funding


www.nwhcs.nhs.uk

www.ewin.northwest.nhs.uk

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