TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT Advisory Platform


SOME KEY ASPECTS OF SEMAP


accreditation currently for other professions involved with the design and delivery of the wider healthcare estate, yet they have the capacity to cause untold damage and cost. IHEEM’s newly created Strategic Estates


Management Advisory Platform (SEMAP) brings together senior members of IHEEM and fellow professionals highly experienced in the design and management of healthcare facilities. Members are representatives from various design disciplines, including architects, civil and structural engineers, chartered surveyors, project managers, and healthcare planners. As an example, my professional


Duncan Sissons Vice Chair of SEMAP


Managing Director, Sissons Consult Ltd, Chartered Surveyor and Project Manager


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ver recent years IHEEM has had significant success in developing


the engineering profession within healthcare, creating the role of Authorising Engineer (AE), who - as an appropriately qualified engineer - has demonstrated relevant skills, competence, and experience. An AE is the only person accredited by IHEEM to provide specialist technical advice, guidance, and support to healthcare organisations to meet the regulatory and statutory requirements across a number of engineering disciplines. AEs encompass a number of engineering disciplines, and are key to providing a safe and operational healthcare estate. The AE accreditation is attained and retained by an individual rather than a company.


There is no such healthcare-specific October 2023 Health Estate Journal 11


background is as a chartered surveyor with involvement in the design and delivery of healthcare projects for over 40 years, both in the UK and overseas.


The value of mentoring


A local Trust has a highly motivated surveyor currently undertaking a degree via day release, but was unable to support him in professional membership of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) as no one in the team was a Chartered Surveyor. As a member of IHEEM, I was pleased to be approached by the Trust to act as Supervisor to allow the employee to gain professional status of the RICS: this was agreed, and produced clear benefits for both parties. In doing so, the Trust retained a


highly motivated and competent individual within the NHS, and enhanced the skills of the individual, who is able to provide an improved service to his employer, whilst improving his job satisfaction. I, meanwhile, was only too happy to help develop a young surveyor. This scenario is all too common across the


NHS, and talent is being lost to other sectors. Recognising this IHEEM is looking to see how to best support the training development of all estates professionals employed by Trusts. It is not the intention to usurp the role of established regulatory bodies, but rather to supplement their proven skills with continuing professional development focused within the healthcare sector.


Healthcare planning


The role of healthcare planner presents more of a challenge, as the discipline draws upon skills for individuals from many diverse backgrounds. IHEEM has created a number of workstreams, one of which is tasked with looking at the development of and how to promote healthcare planning as a recognised profession. Suzanne MacCormick gives a summary of the work of that working group below


Catch up with SEMAP at Healthcare Estates


There will be an update on all of the workstreams of SEMAP at the forthcoming IHEEM conference being held in Manchester on 10th and 11th October.


S EMA P P R E S E N T A T I O N A T H E A L T C H A R E E S T A T E S


Our presentation and panel discussion will be on Tuesday 10th October at 15.00 – see conference programme for full details.


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