In May 2007 the NLH published the first part of the Skills for Success – the Health Library Staff Development Framework. The idea of the framework is that it provides an enabling toolkit which can be used both for personal guidance and development and to support service and staff development. The Framework will cover 6 different subject areas:
- Individual level
- Team level
- Network level
- Pan SHA/national leve
- Career development pathway
- Service delivery level
Full details can be found at:
http://nlhcms.library.nhs.uk/nlhdocs/NLH_STG_NLH_Development_Framework_full_version.doc
The first documents that have been completed underpin the sections on Individual level and Career development pathway. A full list of the documents can be found at http://www.library.nhs.uk/forlibrarians/staffdevelopment
The West Midlands Learning and Development Group have agreed that the framework is valuable to the development of West Midlands Health Library staff and can be used in a variety of ways:
· To prepare an individual for their appraisal and personal development planning
· To provide manager’s with information on development and career pathway opportunities to support staff appraisal
· To provide advice for individual’s with their own career planning.
To help to promote and develop the tool across the West Midlands I would appreciate your comments on the Framework and also examples your experience of using the Framework. If you would like to contribute to this discussion please add a comment to this page.
We also have plans to incorporate the framework into our West Midlands Learning agenda:
· Where possible we will include any local links of relevance to the framework documents.
· We also intend to identify how any of the West Midlands learning and development initiatives and training fit into this framework as well as the Knowledge and Skills Framework.
We will keep you up-to-date with all local developments on the framework and we look forward to receiving your discussion comments and case studies.
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