What you need to Know
The simplest place to start is to start with the initial job plans.
We describe how to do this in detail in the Implementation section. Working out the numbers will tell you whether you have enough Core Clinical Capacity (time for Choice and Core Partnership) to deal with the referral rate. If you have, fine. If not, you can review why you think you are out of balance. You may not have enough clinical capacity under any job plan reorganisation, in which case your commissioners need to be in the loop!
Many staff have individual job descriptions that describe what their job entails. Some will have job plans that are clear when things happen and how often. But in our experience it is rare for these job plans to be integrated across a team and for there to be associated activity targets that are based on a job plan and description. So this is the 4th Big Idea in CAPA - that of the team job plan.
To write a team job plan you need to have individual job plans and thus defined, and mapped, Core threshold, Specialist skills and competencies in the team. Then you can work out how much Specific time you need, or can afford, in relation to the work you are commissioned to do (or the demand coming in if commissioning arrangements are not yet very precise e.g. under a block contract).