Relevant frameworks

Person-centred approaches, a core skills education and training framework

This significant framework is essential to all services and sectors (e.g. health, social care, local authorities and housing) and across different types of organisations (e.g. public, private and not-for-profit). It aims to distil best practice and to set out core, transferable behaviours, knowledge and skills.

The core of person-centred approaches:

• Values
• Core communication and relationship building skills
• Conversations to engage with people
• Conversations to enable and support people
• Conversation with people to manage the highest complexity and significant risk

Enabling people to work in this way through:

• Development of the workforce
• Development of organisations and systems
• Supporting behaviour change

Structure of the framework

The framework begins with a description of values. Core communication and relationship building skills, including communication between staff at all levels, are relevant to the entire workforce.

Behaviours, knowledge and skills to put a person-centred approach into practice are then described in three ‘steps’:

1. Conversations to engage with people
2. Conversations to enable and support people
3. Conversations with people to collaboratively manage highest complexity and significant risk

The appropriate step will depend upon the type of conversation needed in a particular situation – this is not necessarily dependent on a workers job role or level of seniority.

Other relevant frameworks

• Clinical/Care subjects in the UK Core Skills Training Framework
  
  This framework allows employers to recognise statutory/mandatory training to a standard, trust that information and reduce duplication of training.
  
  Launched in 2013, the Statutory/Mandatory CSTF is maintained and updated by Skills for Health.
• Dementia Training Standards Framework
  
  The original Dementia Core Skills Education and Training framework was launched in October 2015. In June 2018 this revised and updated version was released. The framework was commissioned and funded by the Department of Health, and developed in collaboration by Skills for Health and Health Education England in partnership with Skills for Care. Development of the framework was guided by an expert group including a wide range of health and social care organisations, relevant Royal Colleges and education providers.
• Core Capabilities Framework for Supporting Autistic People
  
  This framework was commissioned by Health Education England as one of the key objectives for workforce development in delivering the Autism Strategy, overseen by the Department of Health & Social Care (DHSC).
• Core Capabilities Framework for Supporting People with a Learning Disability
  
  This updated framework is a joint commission by Health Education England and NHS England, ensuring it remains up to date with current guidance. The framework has also been extended to provide increased focus on improving health outcomes and avoiding premature mortality.
• Mental Health Core Skills Education and Training Framework
  
  The Mental Health Core Skills Education and Training Framework was commissioned and funded by the Department of Health and developed by Skills for Health, Health Education England and Skills for Care. The framework supports workforce development specific to implementation of the national mental health strategy, No Health Without Mental Health. The aim of the framework is to support the development and delivery of appropriate and consistent cross-sector mental health education and training. The framework describes core skills and knowledge i.e. that which is common and transferable across different types of service provision.
• Core Skills Education and Training Framework for End of Life Care
  
  Health Education England commissioned Skills for Health in collaboration with Skills for Care to develop this Core Skills Education and Training Framework for End of Life Care. Launched in March 2017, the framework expands on the Common Core Principles and Competences for Social Care and Health Workers Working with Adults at the End of Life and aligns with the current dementia, mental health and learning disabilities frameworks all of which will sit under an overarching framework for person-centred care. In particular, it aims to promote community development and asset-based approaches to education and training, considering the strengths, abilities and potential of communities in supporting end-of-life care.
• Competence Framework for Nurses
  
  This framework was developed by the Consequences of Cancer and its Treatment (CCaT) collaborative in partnership with Macmillan Cancer Support and the UK Oncology Nursing Society (UKONS). This is the first competence framework for UK nurses involved in the care of adults living with and beyond cancer. It identifies core domains of care that are relevant to the needs of cancer survivors who have, or may be at risk of developing, the consequences of cancer and its treatment.
• Macmillan Allied Health Professions Competence Framework
  
  The Macmillan Allied Health Professions Competence Framework [PDF] is the first competence framework for UK allied health professionals (AHPs) working with people affected by cancer, July 2017.