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Education Pathways for staff in Facilities Services

Neil Redhead, Health Facilities Scotland Karen Adams, NHS Education for Scotland

Background

• Since 2005, NES and HFS have been working

together on the development of education for approx 20,000 staff working in estates and facilities services.

• In 2010, the Strategic Facilities Group asked NES

and HFS to begin work on Career and Education Pathways for Estates and Facilities staff.

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What are ‘Education Pathways’ ?

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Why are Education Pathways needed?

This is what the service has asked for in order to support:

• consistency around NHS Scotland;
• succession planning and ‘growing our own’;
• accessible development opportunities for staff;

Education Pathways for Estates & Facilities

• ‘maps’ of national qualifications relevant to the main staff

groups within estates and facilities services – to help people move across or up;

• identifies four different types of qualifications:
• Specialist: to develop the specialist skills needed in a

service area

• Transferable: relevant to a range of different service

areas

• Management: supporting management skills from the

beginning

• Modern Apprenticeship: for young people entering

the service

Key features of the pathways

• developed by the service for the service;
• focus on accessibility: learning in or near the

workplace;

• building on what’s there: linking the learning which

people already do in the workplace with the qualification (e.g. all Facilities Workbooks are now linked with SVQ2) – thereby reducing duplication;

• providing support for individuals, managers,

planners and education providers.

Progress so far

• seen and approved by wide range of partners;
• identified in national policy as a key tool to

support workforce development;

• identified as important support for PDP/R;
• Facilities Services and Facilities Management

SVQs tested in pilot projects;

• approval given by Strategic Facilities Group.

Next steps

• Development of a national strategic plan for

developing staff, and for implementing the pathways.

• Development of guidance specifically for

implementing the pathways.

• A communications plan, including engagement, to

raise awareness, gain commitment and encourage use

• f the pathways, targeted partly at staff and also at

senior managers.

• Opportunity to bid for funding for demonstration

projects focused on sustainability

For more information:

• Find the pathways under ‘learning’ on the

Estates & Facilities Portal www.estatesandfacilities.nes.scot.nhs.uk

• Sign up for updates on the project and

information about the demonstrator projects acs.project@nes.scot.nhs.uk