Supporting People with Long-Term Conditions to Self-Manage

This guidance, developed for the South East Region of Scotland by the South East Region Long-Term Conditions Partnership Project, will:

• Signpost staff to current policy, learning materials and related competency/capability frameworks.
• Provide guidance on “how” to enable supported self-management
• Consider opportunities to support self-management in practice
• Support career progression
• Facilitate role re-design and service improvement.

Who is it for?
• Multi-agency staff who support people with long-term conditions (LTCs) in any setting
• Staff from all disciplines and working at all levels of practice
• Recruitment, workforce planning and development leaders.

As a practitioner/worker:
• Identify your skills, knowledge, experience and development needs1
• Tailor your knowledge and competency to the complexity of the condition(s) of the people
you support
• Understand the local and national context for long-term conditions and self-management.

As a team leader,manager or educationalist:
• Understand what competencies staff require and the learning resources available
• Tailor staff competency to the complexity of support required
• Understand the local and national context for long-term conditions and self-management.

Please note that as different levels of practice vary amongst staff groups the knowledge level at which the worker performs the capabilities/competencies outlined in this document should be appropriate to their role and responsibility.

http://www.nes.scot.nhs.uk/documents/news/sm_guide.pdf