NOCN Group, one of the UK’s leading skills and workforce development organisations and the custodian of the Construction Plant Competence Scheme (CPCS), has announced the forthcoming introduction of the NOCN Workforce Competence Platform, a new digital solution designed to help employers evidence workforce competence, strengthen compliance and support workforce development across regulated industries.

Powered by the NOCN Skills Passport, the platform brings workforce competence, learning and compliance together in one secure digital ecosystem, helping organisations build safer, more capable and future-ready workforces while giving individuals a portable record of their skills, qualifications and professional achievements.

Accessible via desktop and mobile, the platform provides employers with a clearer view of workforce capability while giving individuals a secure digital professional identity that can develop throughout their career.

At the heart of the solution is the NOCN Skills Passport, which brings together verified skills, qualifications, competencies, workplace experience and achievements into one trusted and portable record.

Unlike a traditional digital card or qualification database, the platform has been developed to capture and evidence Skills, Knowledge, Experience and Behaviours (SKEBs), helping employers build a more complete picture of what an individual can bring to the workplace.

Graham Hasting-Evans, Chief Executive of NOCN Group, said:

“Competence is about much more than holding a qualification or a card. It is about the skills, knowledge, experience and behaviours people develop throughout their working lives, and having trusted evidence that demonstrates what they are capable of.

“For employers, particularly those operating in safety-critical and regulated industries, having a clear view of workforce capability is increasingly important. They need to understand not only which qualifications and credentials people hold, but the wider skills, competencies and experience that exist across their workforce.

“The NOCN Workforce Competence Platform builds on more than 40 years of our experience in qualifications, assessment and occupational competence. By bringing that experience together with the NOCN Skills Passport, we can help employers better understand and evidence workforce competence while giving individuals a skills record that develops with them throughout their career.

“This is an important next step for NOCN and part of our wider commitment to helping employers build skilled, competent and future-ready workforces.”

A clearer picture of workforce competence

For organisations managing large, mobile or complex workforces, understanding workforce competence can be challenging.
Evidence can be held across different records, systems and formats. Credentials expire. People gain new qualifications, develop new skills and build experience throughout their careers.

The NOCN Workforce Competence Platform is designed to bring more of that picture together.

Employers can use a workforce log to view workforce records, receive Skills Passports shared by individuals through a dedicated share inbox and use expiry dashboards to maintain visibility of important credentials approaching renewal.

The platform also makes the source and verification status of evidence visible, helping employers understand what sits behind an individual’s skills and credentials.

Verified competencies can be supported through NOCN systems including the NOCN Hub and CPCS, alongside educator assessment.

For individuals, the NOCN Skills Passport provides a secure and portable record that can develop as they gain new skills, qualifications, competencies, experience and achievements. Your skills record moves with you.

Built on more than 40 years of experience

The platform builds on NOCN Group’s long-standing experience across skills, qualifications, assessment and occupational competence.

For more than 40 years, NOCN has worked with employers, education and training providers and industries to support the development and recognition of skills and competence.

Across construction and the built environment, this includes qualifications, assessment, digital logbooks and established card schemes such as CPCS.

That experience has helped shape the development of a platform designed to provide a broader picture of workforce capability and the trusted evidence behind it.

For employers, this means being able to:

• See workforce skills, qualifications, competencies, experience and achievements.
• Verify the source and status of the evidence behind them.
• Understand workforce capability and maintain visibility of missing or expiring credentials.
• Develop people as their skills, experience and achievements grow.
• Assess and certify competence through NOCN’s wider qualifications and assessment ecosystem.
• Mobilise and renew with trusted workforce information and greater visibility of important credential expiry dates.

Be among the first to benefit

The NOCN Workforce Competence Platform represents the next step in NOCN’s work to connect skills, competence and trusted evidence across education and the workplace.

NOCN Group is now inviting employers and industry partners to be among the first to explore the platform, with opportunities to take part in an early employer pilot.

Organisations can register their interest to find out more and access an exclusive technical demonstration, providing an opportunity to explore the platform and discuss their workforce competence needs with NOCN Group.

Know your workforce. Evidence competence. Build the team you need.

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