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)

Mandatory e-job planning training for AHP (registered and non-registered) staff will be available on the eLearning platform (ESR).

This will be added to profiles in a phased approach in line with the e-job planning implementation plan as outlined below. This will replace the online and face to face training that has been offered over the last few months:

Phase 1 and Phase 2: will appear on staff profiles from the w/c 14 July 2025

Phase 3: will appear on staff profiles from the w/c 4 August 2025

Phase 4: to be confirmed

Staff will be expected to complete the training along with their job plan within 12 weeks of receiving their log in details (or for staff awaiting the training, this will be from the date outlined above.)

NB: If you have already completed training your profile should show this as completed.

If you are part of phase 3, you will have received an email from Krystina Stanway or AHPJobPlanning@merseycare.nhs.uk inviting you to join a training session.

Phase 4 is TBC

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Once you've completed your training, log in information will be sent to your email soon after.

Here are resources available to help you to complete your eJob plan:

• AHP Electronic Job planning policy
• AHP Electronic Job planning SOP
• How to guides linked below:
  • Benefits of using eJob plan
  • Compare categories report - eJob plan 
  • Healthmedics - locking down a job plan
  • Healthmedics - how to copy a job plan
  • Healthmedics user management portal
  • Signing off a job plan as a manager
  • Understanding system roles in allocate job plan
  • User management adding a new account
  • User management deactivating an existing user
  • User management editing an existing user
  • User management portal user search
  • Allocate job plan - add a flexible activity 
  • Allocate job plan - add a timetabled activity
  • General information objectives and resources in job planning
  • Navigating my job plan

If there are any issues with accessing the training or log in information, or if you have done the training and your profile doesn’t reflect this, please get in touch: AHPJobplanning@merseycare.nhs.uk