Professional Skills for Government skills identifier tool

When you provide a few pieces of simple information, the PSG skills identifier will show you the leadership and core skills you should have or develop in your current role. It will also show you the additional professional skills you need to do your job on a day-to-day basis. If you want to see the leadership, core and professional skills required for roles at different grades and in different professions you can also select those options within the tool.

The skills include:

  • leadership (for all civil servants)

  • core skills (for all civil servants)

  • professional skills (specific to your profession and role)

  • broader experience (for SCS only)

The information that the PSG skills identifier produces is applicable across the civil service, although the actual language used for each skill may vary from department to department. If you have any queries about how it applies to you in your current job or in your department you should check with your line manager, HR business partner or the contact on the job advertisement.

Leadership - select your grade

...to reveal the leadership skills applicable to you:

 

Core skills - select your grade

...to reveal the PSG core skills applicable to you:

Professional skills - select your profession

...to reveal the skills framework applicable to your professional area:

In addition to these 22 professions recognised in government, a number of competency frameworks have been developed where skills required are strategically important or unique to government. These frameworks are for:

Broader experience principle

Depth and breadth of experience are important if you are working in the SCS or aspire to the SCS. Deep professional knowledge accumulated progressively during the course of a career is essential to operate at senior levels within any profession. 

Find out more about broader experience

What is PSG?

The Professional Skills for Government (PSG) is a competency framework. It has been developed collaboratively since 2003 by employers, employees and wider stakeholders in central government in partnership with Government Skills and its predecessors. Government Skills is guardian of the framework on behalf of the sector.

Government Skills is the skills body responsible for central government. It is part of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills and operates on a four nation basis to deliver improved skills levels across the sector.