Tools

Here you will find details and links to some useful tools.

Role Impact Assessment
Using the ‘Role Impact Assessment’ you are able to assess the likely impact and benefits of new and extended roles and their contribution to WTD 2009 compliance, within your own organisation. This tool is extremely versatile and can be looked at on an individual, team, directorate and trust-wide basis.

Competence Application Tools
A number of tools are available to help you find competences, create and save lists of relevant competences and undertake assessments relating to competence based role and team profiles, and clusters.

Christmas Trees
Christmas trees provide a visual representation of the NHS workforce based on the NHS Career Framework. The Workforce Review Team (WRT) has developed this approach and further information is available on the WRT section of the healthcare workforce portal.

Endoscopy Tool
This workload/workforce capacity tool is a model that has been developed to measure the current national (England) workload and workforce capacity based on clinical and workforce supply and demand data.

Maternity Matters e-learning resource
This is a step by step e-learning guide to workforce planning for maternity services. It acts as an educational training tool and also a practical guide to sustainable and evidence based workforce planning.

WTD Benchmarking Tool
This tool allows trusts to benchmark their performance towards WTD 2009.