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Competency Framework
Competency 1
Competency 1 – Good Clinical Care: Occupational history taking where relevant
Competency 1 – Good Clinical Care:Be aware of sources of information on hazards of specific occupations
Competency 1 – Good Clinical Care: Appreciate the relevance of certain symptoms and their potential link to occupation
Competency 1 – Good Clinical Care: Elicit a relevant occupational history, identify and manage problems
Competency 1 – Good Clinical Care: Recognise and consider the impact of physical and psychosocial factors on both paid and unpaid work capability
Competency 2
Competency 2 – Good Clinical Care: Fitness for work
Competency 2 – Good Clinical Care: Understand the process of rehabilitation
Competency 2 – Good Clinical Care: Access evidence based return to work times
Competency 2 – Good Clinical Care: Appreciate the benefits of employment on overall health
Competency 2 – Good Clinical Care: to understand and manage the legal and ethical implications of advice on suitability for work
Competency 2 – Good Clinical Care: Discuss the likely outcomes of any medical treatment or intervention on fitness for work.
Competency 2 – Good Clinical Care: Be willing to listen to a patient’s views, aspirations and fears.
Competency 2 – Good Clinical Care: Appreciate priorities – clinical, financial, legal and ethical
Competency 2 – Good Clinical Care: Analyse and synthesise the interaction between clinical and medico-legal aspects of work and health
Competency 2 – Good Clinical Care:Be willing to seek advice and to change own views and to accept a patient can disagree with advice.
Competency 3
Competency 3 – Good clinical care: Consultation with employers/managers
Competency 3 – Good clinical care: Understand the need to explain the difference between occupational health and clinical consultations
Competency 3 – Good clinical care:Understand confidentiality and the principles of consent
Competency 3 – Good clinical care: Understand the ethics and constraints of communicating with non-medical personnel and the appropriate contents of an occupational health report.
Competency 3 – Good Clinical Care: Listen Actively
Competency 3 – Good Clinical Care:Be aware of misconceptions about the role of occupational health professionals
Competency 3 – Good Clinical Care: Respect confidentiality
Competency 4
Competency 4 – Maintaining relationship with patients: Doctor-patient relationship
Competency 4 – Maintaining relationship with patients:Understand the relationship between the occupational health doctor and the patient
Competency 4 – Maintaining relationship with patients:Maintain an independent position
Competency 4 – Maintaining relationship with patients: Be wary of judgemental and discriminatory behaviour
Competency 4 – Maintaining relationship with patients:Wider relationships in health and employment
Competency 4 – Maintaining relationship with patients:Understand the different roles, of relevant parties
Competency 4 – Maintaining relationship with patients:Deal with employers in an appropriate way
Competency 4 – Maintaining relationship with patients:Be aware of potential difficulties in the relationship
Competency 4 – Maintaining relationship with patients: Understand the role of health professionals in relation to the employee/patient
Competency 4 – Maintaining relationship with patients: Communicate effectively and appropriately
Competency 4 – Maintaining relationship with patients: Develop and maintain respect for the roles of other professionals
Competency 4 – Maintaining relationship with patients:Personal health and safety
Competency 4 – Maintaining relationship with patients:Understand the risk associated with medical practice
Competency 4 – Maintaining relationship with patients:Recognise situations where personal health and safety is at risk or
Competency 4 – Maintaining relationship with patients:Comply with health and safety legislation
Competency 5
Competency 5 – Relationships with patients: Legal and ethical issues
Competency 5 – Relationships with patients:Recognise the potential for conflicts of interest
Competency 5 – Relationships with patients:Understand how occupational health is organised
Competency 5 – Relationships with patients: Identify potential areas of conflict between interested parties
Competency 5 – Relationships with patients:Recognise the potential pitfalls of inappropriate occupational health practice
Competency 6
Competency 6 – Working with colleagues: Occupational health services in the context of UK healthcare
Competency 6 – Working with colleagues: Understand the scope of delivery of occupational health services
Competency 6 – Working with colleagues:Appreciate that different members of the multidisciplinary team have complementary skills
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