Area specific capabilities

Area specific capablity resources

Welcome to the area specific capablity resources section. Here, you’ll find helpful tools, guidance, and materials designed to support the development, delivery, and understanding of area-specific capability frameworks. These resources are created to help education providers, employers, and practitioners apply the frameworks effectively in real-world settings.

Whether you’re designing a learning programme, supporting workforce development, or exploring how to meet advanced practice needs in a specific area, these resources will guide you through each step. They reflect the Centre’s standards and expectations, ensuring consistency, quality, and relevance across all endorsed frameworks.


Area specific capablity resources

Glossary of key terms

This glossary explains key terms used within the Centre’s area specific endorsement process. It sets out the Centre’s specific use of terms.

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Area specific gateway criteria

The Centre’s gateway criteria are used to gauge whether a particular area of workforce development is potentially suitable for supported development as an area specific capability framework (for which Centre endorsement could then be pursued).

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Endorsement criteria

Endorsement criteria for considering candidate area specific capability framework within the Centre’s approval and assurance process.

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Stakeholder engagement exercise

We sought to engage with our stakeholders on the Centre’s approach to multi-professional advanced practice area specfic capability frameworks.

Engagement excercise

Centre’s approach

The Centre for Advancing Practice Approach: Briefing paper – November 2022; updated May 2023

Centre’s approach

Types of area-specific workforce development interventions

Different types of area-specific workforce development interventions at advanced practice level

November 2022; updated May 2023

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Area specific capablity resources - FAQs Centre Endorsed