A registered shared service practitioner is a leader, senior manager or consultant in the public sector who has stepped onto the pathway of the Postgraduate Certificate in Shared Services and undertaken the four seminar, Shared Service Architect's programme.
Over 600 senior managers from local government, FE/HE, fire and rescue, police and housing have stepped onto this pathway and it is anticipated more than that number will join the Shared Service Architect's programme in 2012.
The benefit for their organisation is in having members of staff who are trained in the specialist areas of shared service skills and knowledge. The benefit to the individual is that practitioner status will turbo charge their CV and make them valuable to both their current employer, or at interview for their next post.
How Can you Become a Shared Service Practitioner?
To become a shared service practitioner you must attend the four seminars in the Shared Service Architect's Programme, which underpin the first module of the Postgraduate Certificate in Shared Services, covering the development of shared service activity between partnering organisations.The seminars are:
The Highway Code of Shared Services which equips you with an understanding of the basic legal statutes and other issues that can empower or place constraints on a shared service.
The Shared Service Architect's Toolbox which will teach you to apply 40 tools, templates and techniques to build trust and shared vision between the decision makers in the partnership.
The Shared Service Architect's Business Case Toolbox provides over 50 tools, templates and techniques for use in developing a shared business case
The Shared Service Architect's Innovation Toolbox which equips you to lead shared service innovation teams, to develop “different, better and lower cost” partnership activities.
Once you have completed the sessions, and had an application for practitioner status approved, you are annually licensed to use the designated letters SS(Prac). This signifies that you are equipped with the tools, templates and techniques to support shared service activity.
The designated letters do not indicate that an individual has the experience, or the capability to lead a shared service or collaboration activity. That is the role of a shared service architect.
If you would like to know more about becoming a shared service practitioner, please contact dominic.wallace@sharedservicearchitects.co.uk