Hello and welcome

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Hello and welcome!

• Hazel, 32 Mammography Assistant
• Alix, 22 Health Care Assistant
• Listen carefully.

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North East Centre of Vocational Excellence in
Health

• Hazel Robson - NHS North East Workforce Team
• Alix Borthwick - Skills for Health

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What? Why? How?
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What is a CoVE?

• Key part of Governments Workforce/Skills
  Strategy managed by Learning Skills Councils
  2nd phase will be National Skills Academies
• To transform local provision so that it meets
• the needs of each sector employers in this
  case health
• Primarily about Level 3 upskilling existing
  workforce, supporting people into employment and
  progression to higher education

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• Lead Partners
• North East Strategic Health Authority
• Hartlepool College of Further Education
• Newcastle College
• Other Partners
• Skills for Health
• All health sector employers
• Other education providers
• Other private training providers

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Our Priorities

• Employer Driven unique model nationally we
  have cracked employer-engagement
• Benefits Led Approach - Benefits Profile.doc

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Career Framework

• 2005 data
• 145,200 working in H S Care
• 73,400 working in health
• Agenda for
• Change Data
• NHS NE
• Bands 1 4 49.7
• Bands 1 5 75.4

ENTRY
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Focus on Level 3 (bands ¾)

• Up-skilling current workforce
• Supporting registration
• Supporting new roles
• Supporting modernisation organisation change
• Widening participation/access
• Building the Skills Escalator
• An Employer-driven framework for collaborative
  working

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Structure Strands
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Strands

• Dental
• Regional Dental Workforce Group
• Dental Nurses - Level 3 Oral Hygiene
• MH LD
• 2 MH LD Trust
• Qualifying existing workforce STR workers
• Public Health
• Regional Public Health Teaching Network
• Health Trainers Working with Health Trainers
  Hubs
• CELS Non-pharmaceutical prescribing
• Supporting research with Public Health Teaching
  Network
• Healthcare Awards
• Regional Dietetics Managers - Dietetics
• Regional Pathology Modernisation Group
  -Pathology
• Endoscopy ECG Renal Clinical Imaging

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Year 2 now full status

• Further development of Year 1 activity
• Benefits Tool impact to decision makers
• Quality Assurance and Monitoring and customer
  satisfaction
• Healthcare Awards (broaden to Allied Health
  Professions)
• Pharmacy
• Older People
• Estates and Facilities
• Health Informatics
• Progression upwards and below Apprenticeships
  T2G Aim Higher Higher Level Skills, FDF
• National Skills Academy

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Cohesion
AIM HIGHER
CoVE
FDF
Flexible Work-Based Foundation Degree
Framework Mental Health Learning
Disabilities Health Informatics Biomedical
Sciences
Level 3 enhancement to meet professional
requirements and/or improve access to HE
Development of Apprenticeship Framework open up
route to recurring funding progression to HE
Infrastructure Capacity Building Level 3 Some
Level 2
Information Advice Guidance Website
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• www.nehealthcove.com