areas such as knowledge management and digital technology skills. These are already important functions for many knowledge and library colleagues, and key development areas for the future.
Service Development
The PKSB has already been used by some local NHS Knowledge and Library Service managers to explore strengths and highlight skills gaps within their teams. For employers the new tool provides the opportunity to map the range of knowledge and library skills required by the organisation against the skills present within the knowledge and library team. The resulting analysis then provides a basis for more struc- tured planning in terms of developing the skills of the existing team or provid- ing drivers for future recruitment. As NHS organisations in England self-assess against HEE’s Quality and Improvement Outcomes Framework (
https://bit.ly/2T6rHfE) for knowledge and library services and identify priority areas for development, the PKSB provides ser- vice teams with another tool in the service improvement armoury.
Learning Academy
During 2021 HEE will be launching a Skills and Learning Academy for the NHS Knowledge and Library Services workforce in England. The Learning Academy will bring together a range of development opportunities under a single banner, including the provision of a CILIP accredited continuing profes- sional development programme for the NHS library staff.
Part of this work will include mapping the skills and knowledge addresses in each course to the Professional Knowl- edge and Skills Base.
Digital Skills Certificate In response to the Topol Review we are working with HEE’s National School of Healthcare Science to develop a qualifi- cation in Digital Technologies for NHS knowledge and library specialists. The PKSB, along with CILIP’s Technology Review, will provide an invaluable refer- ence point for the knowledge and skills required by our workforce in the area of digital technologies and skills.
June 2021
Professional Registration Kate Robinson – From a personal per- spective as a member of the Professional Registration Panel, reviewing applications for Certification, Chartership, and Fellow- ship, including the new KM Chartership and Fellowship, I see the new PKSB as a great step forward. By expanding the PKSB to more clearly capture the skills and knowledge associated with data, knowledge management, and digital skills and technologies, the resource becomes more inclusive and more future focused. In addition to better reflecting the requirements of our profession today, it provides greater opportunity to consider and prepare for the future, anticipating what skills are likely to be needed in our roles in the years ahead.
The revised PKSB provides a robust basis for Health Education England’s work to develop the NHS knowledge and library specialist workforce in England. We welcome the new resource as a vital tool in service and workforce transformation.
Using the PKSB: into the future The refreshed PKSB is at the at the centre of the suite of CILIP services that celebrate our profession and our professionalism. It sits together with our Ethical Framework [www.
cilip.org.uk/ethics] and our Professionalism Definition [
www.cilip.org.uk/CILIPProfessionalism- Definition] as the foundations of what we do. CILIP’s Learning and Employer Partners are a key part of this ecosystem that has been built to develop, support, strengthen and
celebrate all of us working in the profession. CILIP has a close relationship with sector employers and learning providers and the review of our skills base with the refresh of the PKSB provides the basis to ensure that teaching, learning and qualifications in our profession can keep pace with changing employer needs. The breadth of the con- sultation around the revision demonstrates just how engaged the whole community has been in its development and provides assurance that the skills base reflects the fast-moving elements of our practice. The PKSB describes our work and our skills, it exemplifies these for our employ- ers and, through connecting with it and using it, we can each add value and create opportunities for ourselves. It enables us to look at our skills rather than our role titles, acting as a springboard for our own personal development and challenging us to look and reflect on our practice. With Professional Registration open to all to choose their own entry point, and the PKSB as our sector skills standard acting as the starting point for this, it is inclusive. It opens admission to CILIP’s Register of Practitioners with its associated post-nom- inals and professional recognition to all of us who work in the information profession. So, looking forward, we have a tool we can use to demonstrate our value to employers and to engage with to target our own development. This is a tool we have developed as a sector for our own sector and that can really add value and strengthen our profession. IP
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