Skills for Care Leadership and Management Strategy

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Skills for CareLeadership and Management
Strategy

• Sarah PearceSECAS Project Manager

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Context

• Changing nature of social care services
• Service users increasingly responsible for own
  care
• Integrated models of service delivery
• Challenge for leaders and managers to
• Manage complex social care arrangements
• Manage cross-service boundaries
• Lead integrated and multi-agency teams
• Manage staff from different professions and
  disciplines

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SfC Context

• Sector Skills Agreement (SSA)
• - Agreements between SfC, employers and partners
• - Leadership and Management a priority
• Sector Qualifications Strategy (SQS)
• Review fitness for purpose of qualifications
• Aims to achieve coherency and consistency

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Leadership and Management Strategy

• Strategy to develop leadership and management
  capacity
• Leadership and management can be integrated and
  seen as a continuum
• Promotes a common approach to leadership and
  management development
• Integrates organisational and individual needs
• Promotes development of learning organisations

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L and M Strategy Products

• Practical guides and tools
• Statement about Leadership and Management
• Whole systems model
• Mapping of competences
• National signposting links
• CPD framework
• Unit of competence on Supervision
• Evaluation tool for Leadership and Management
  development