AHP electronic job planning

The purpose of job planning is to ensure there is enough clinical capacity to meet the expected demands on the clinical service, while balancing the development needs of people and organisations.

Job planning enables the effective and efficient use of resources to deliver high quality care. At its heart is a drive to provide patient-centred care that meets the local populations’ needs and improves outcome.

Job planning has been highlighted by NHS England as a significant area of focus for overall improved efficiencies and transformation across the NHS. Job planning is recognised as an important means of linking best use of resources with quality outcomes for patients and as a useful element in service redesign.

• Job planning provides an opportunity for AHPs and their managers to agree what proportion of each role will be attributed to clinical care and other specific supporting clinical activities.
• It provides an opportunity for AHPs to describe the activities that they deliver that are non-patient facing and the added value this brings for patients.
• CPD and training is included in job plans ,to support continued improvement of people and services.

Best practice guidance supports job planning for AHP’s: aps-job-planning-best-practice-guide-2019.pdf (england.nhs.uk)

If you are part of phase 1, you will have received an email from Krystina Stanway or AHPJobPlanning@merseycare.nhs.uk inviting you to join a training session.

The full implementation plan detailing each of the phases will be shared with each of the divisions early February. If you have not received this, please email AHPJobPlanning@merseycare.nhs.uk