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Knowledge for Healthcare
Learning Academy: Achieving CILIP short course accreditation
Continuing Professional Development is seen as an invaluable tool to ensure health library and information workers deliver the best possible services. Health Education England’s new Learning Academy is the latest step in providing CPD support to health librarians, and here Dom Gilroy and Alison Day explain why they were keen to secure CILIP Accreditation, and how they achieved it.
THE launch of the Knowledge for Healthcare Learning Academy in December 2021 was the latest impor- tant development in Health Education England’s sustained work to ensure the NHS benefits from an informed, skilled, and flexible knowledge and library workforce.
Health Education England (HEE) is part of the NHS, working with partners to recruit, educate, and train the healthcare workforce. HEE has system-wide responsibility for NHS knowledge and library services in England, providing strategic guidance to employers on service and workforce design including staff- ing ratios, recruitment, and job role design. As a critical part of this work, HEE provides a range of specialist learning and develop- ment opportunities tailored to the needs of healthcare knowledge and library staff and responsive to the priorities of the national Knowledge for Healthcare strategy.
Developing the Learning Academy The Learning Academy brings together the range of development opportunities offered by HEE’s national knowledge and library services team. It is the culmination of several years of planning led by Sue Lacey Bryant (National Lead for NHS Knowledge and Library Services) and David Stewart MBE (former Workforce Planning and Develop- ment Workstream Lead).
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Dom Gilroy and Alison Day lead the Workforce Planning and Development Workstream for Health Education England’s Knowledge and Library Services Team. They both have experience as Knowledge and Library Service managers within the NHS and serve on CILIP’s Profes- sional Registration Panel.
Building on a long tradition of offering continuing professional development (CPD) for health librarians across the country, the Learning Academy aims to achieve the following benefits:
l Enabling enhanced visibility and accessibility;
March 2022
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