Workforce Planning and Development

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Workforce Planning and Development for the Next
Wave Is your workforce prepared for
personalisation? ARC Regional Conference 20th May
2008
Rosalita Mainwaring Skills for Care Workforce
Planning and Development Manager - South West
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Workshop Objectives

• Identify what the challenges are and what changes
  you may need to make
• Understand the principles of workforce planning
  and people development.
• Understand the principles of New Types of
  Working or Worker (ntow)
• Identify good practice examples
• Identify what changes you can make

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Personalisation and transforming the workforce

• Listening to what people are saying about their
  support and how they want to be supported self
  directed support
• Making the changes to how we support people
  requires good planning and people development -
  supporting citizenship
• Challenging professionalism - people get the
  learning they need and share the learning they
  gain

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Task 1

• Taking into account what you have heard about the
  future and today so far In groups (5 people)
  discuss what you feel the challenges are to
  you/your organisation- 5-10 minutes
• Feedback from each group on 3 key challenges

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Workforce Planning- some basics

• Strategic picture and perspective of your current
  and future workforce needs
• Takes into account all external and internal
  factors
• Essential components of your individual,
  business/organisational, planning cycle
• A variety of tools and resources should be used
  to support the planning process.

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People Development

• Classic mistakes everyone makes when changes are
  required
• The training vacuum
• Instead we can start involving the people we
  support and using peoples strengths to inspire
  change
• Change champions/Action Learning/Learning Culture
  development/ team learning/ who is the team?
• Preparation/implementation/evaluation and ongoing
  learning

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What is needed for Change

• If we really want change to be effective there
  should be a natural integral link between
  workforce planning, workforce development and the
  outcomes for people who use services.
• This should be an ongoing form of development,
  that puts people who use services in the centre
  and optimises all our resources both human and
  financial in the best possible way.

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Skills for Care ntow vision

• Work re-design that inspires people to provide
  support differently and challenge their own
  assumptions about their role.
• Is what I do relevant and appropriate to the way
  people tell us they want to be supported, and
  have their support provided now and in the
  future?

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The ntow Programme

• Funded by Dept of Health for the creation of real
  new roles that could be tested on the ground.
• Puts People who Use Services and Carers at the
  heart of the delivery of Care Services.
• Phase 1 28 pilot sites across England
• Phase 2 6 Continuation sites in the South West.
• Phase 3. Mapping and embedding regional work
  began.
• Now integrated into Skills for Care work

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Outcomes so far

• Phase I and 2 evaluation, reports other materials
  available
• 9 regional mapping reports
• Excellent examples of good practice
• Documents, DVD etc all on the website link via
  SfC www.skillsforcare.org.uk
• Links to Skills for Health
• Links to In Control

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Task 2

• In groups (5 people) discuss ways that you can
  influence and change what you do/how you do it to
  meet the Next Wave challenges 5-10 minutes
• Feedback from each group on 3 ideas and any key
  actions people will be doing on return to work

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Resources and Projects

• New Knowledge Sets and LDQ
• Continuing Professional Development Supervision
  Skills
• Valuing People Now tool kit
• Learning organisations toolkit
• ntow resources
• Management Standards
• Sector Qualifications Framework
• Occupational Standards Review

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Groups

• ARC
• Partnership Boards/local groups
• Learning Exchange Networks
• NToW groups - local or regional
• Local Care Partnerships - funding, learning,
  support
• SfC/ARC/VPST regional network/forum
• Local groups such as DCT/PIC others
• In Control
• Commission for Social Care Improvement
• Etc etc ..

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Workforce Planning and Developmentfor the Next
WaveARC Regional Conference 20th May 2008

• Rosalita Mainwaring
• Rosalita.mainwaring_at_skillsforcare.org.uk
• Telgt 01752 895793 or 07971002270