Skills for Health partnership

The Six Steps Methodology gives healthcare organisations a proven, structured approach to workforce planning, helping you move from reactive decision-making to a more informed and sustainable approach to planning your workforce.

Six Steps helps you:

• understand workforce demand
• turn data into insight
• identify workforce and skills gaps
• plan for different scenarios
• align workforce and service needs
• build a practical workforce plan.

You can find out more and sign up to the programme via the Skills for Health Website.

Generative AI is rapidly becoming part of working life in healthcare, with staff increasingly using tools such as ChatGPT and Copilot to reduce administrative pressure, improve productivity and support workforce efficiency.

This eLearning uses interactive scenarios and simulations to help staff move beyond awareness of GenAI to making safer, more informed decisions about its use in real workplace situations, with practical guidance grounded in NHS policy and regulatory expectations.

• Build GenAI literacy: Give staff a shared understanding of how GenAI works, its opportunities and limitations, with practical training focused on tools already being used, including ChatGPT and Copilot.
• Reduce risk: Help staff recognise and respond to risks around data, inappropriate use and AI-generated outputs, supporting safer, more responsible use of GenAI.
• Support confident adoption: Equip staff with a simple framework to make informed decisions about when and how to use GenAI, supporting responsible innovation and the adoption of technologies shaping the future of healthcare.

To learn more and to sign up, visit the dedicated webpage.

Skills for Health is working with Skills for Justice Training to deliver the Level 3 Award in Counter-Terrorism Protective Security and Preparedness, the only qualification endorsed by Counter-Terrorism Policing and developed by SfJ Awards in partnership with the National Counter-Terrorism Security Office (NaCTSO).

Healthcare settings face unique operational pressures, from high footfall and open access environments to complex estates and vulnerable populations. The qualification builds the capability to recognise threats and vulnerabilities and take proportionate action to protect people, services and infrastructure, strengthening organisational preparedness and resilience.

This programme will help you:

• Strengthen preparedness: Build the knowledge and capability to recognise security risks and vulnerabilities and support effective protective security planning.
• Build organisational resilience: Equip teams to take a coordinated, proportionate approach to protecting staff, patients, visitors, services and infrastructure.
• Support compliance and assurance: Build understanding of protective security responsibilities and support organisational preparedness for Martyn’s Law requirements.

To learn more and to sign up, take a look at the Skills for Health website.

Skills for Health also offers a free workforce planning maturity assessment tool, which provides a snapshot of your workforce planning maturity, helping you understand your workforce risk profile and the potential implications for your organisation.

You can access it via the Skills for Health website.