Six Steps
e-learning resource

This is a step by step e-learning guide. It is an educational training tool and also practical guide to sustainable and evidence based workforce planning. Workforce planning in the NHS is a key skill that managers and planners at all levels of an organisation require, but one which is often not provided through core training. Login to access the programme.

Who is this resource useful for?

Six Steps will be useful to anyone working in healthcare human resources, workforce planning, service planning or in designing new ways of working. It helps managers take into account the local demographic situation, impact on other services and provides practical hints, tips and case studies to work through plans.

How will the resource help me and my organisation?

Use of the guide across workforce planning will help ensure that decisions made around design and recruitment of new staff and teams are sustainable, realistic and fully support the delivery of quality patient care and productivity and efficiency.

The guide takes the user through six clear steps to develop their workforce plan. It's a format that planners can use at their own pace as an educational resource or refer to as a best practice guide when they are developing plans in the future.

How do I use the resource?

You can access this and all our other e-learning resources by logging into our e-learning suite. If you are not already a member you can register today; it is free and easy to do so. Click here to access our e-learning suite.

There is around an hour and a half of learning material on the disc broken into bite sized lessons. The user can work through the guide at their own pace as an educational resource or refer to it as a best practice guide when they are developing plans in the future.

The six steps in the guide are:

Step 1: Defining the plan
Step 2: Mapping service change
Step 3: Defining the required workforce
Step 4: Understanding workforce availability
Step 5: Planning to deliver the required workforce
Step 6: Implement, monitoring and refresh

Associated documentation:

Six Step Guide to Urgent and Emergency Care >>>
How to change practice: understand, identify and overcome barriers to change >>> (published by NICE)

Who can I contact about the resource?

Fill in our feedback form below or contact the tools team on:
email: tools.team@skillsforhealth.org.uk
tel: 0161 266 2261

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