Applying the Public Health Skills & Career Framework in broader organisational settings

The Public Health Skills and Career Framework is a tool for describing the skills and knowledge needed across all groups, domains and levels of the public health workforce.

The framework is presented as a mechanism to aid coherence across the diverse public health workforce through ensuring consistency in skills, competence and knowledge at all levels, regardless of professional background. It may also been seen to aid transparency in career pathways and progressions. The knowledge and competence levels of the framework have been broadly linked to qualifications and training across the UK and to National Occupational Standards (NOS) – those for public health and a few from standards developed by Skills for Health and other sector skills councils. The framework could be embedded into public health education and training platforms across the board, although it is unclear how it will relate to already established frameworks in other organisational settings.

Sources or references

• Public Health Skills and Career Framework April 2008, Public Health Resource Unit, DoH
• Skills for Health Sector Skills Council
• National Occupational Standards (NOS)

Some of the information in this section is provided by stakeholders and expert groups, and does not necessarily represent the views of the CfWI.