Date of presentation
Workforce Strategy
Trish Knight
Director of Workforce, Quality
& Education
Some of the myths:
Workforce planning is
• All about numbers
• Can be done in a ‘cupboard’
• More connection with policy than patients
• There is only one tool in the toolkit
• A workforce strategy is the same as a workforce plan
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One Goal
To develop a high quality, safe and
sustainable workforce to meet the
healthcare needs of the people of
the East Midlands
One Vision
High quality education and
training for students, trainees and
staff, leading to improved
outcomes for patients across the
East Midlands.
One Network
Bringing health communities
together as East Midlands LETB–
Derbyshire, Leicestershire and
Rutland, Lincolnshire,
Northamptonshire and
Nottinghamshire
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How?
Starter
questions
Professional
Summits
Strategy
Development
day
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submission
Investing in building our CAPACITY
1) Find the right balance between the specialist and the generalist
workforce
2) Create an environment that enables staff to work across
organisational boundaries
3) Develop a more responsive workforce
4) Develop the optimal skill mix to deliver the best possible care for
patients
5) Provide a workforce in the best location to deliver care
6) Nurture and value the future workforce
Investing in building our CAPABILITY
1)
Foster creative ideas, ways of working and educational interventions to
make the future better for patients
2)
Develop a more skilled and better utilised educator workforce which is a
model of excellence for students, trainees and preceptees
3)
Develop a workforce who can create therapeutic relationships to enhance
health improvements
4)
Equip the workforce with the appropriate clinical leadership skills to
deliver high quality services built around patients
5)
Develop multi-professional, multiagency team working to deliver better
patient care
6)
Develop opportunities for career progression with consistent and well
defined roles
Investing in building the best behaviours
1) Build an open, compassionate workforce in all organisations
2) Ensure everyone is accountable for upholding the NHS
Construction
3) Ensure lifelong learning is the norm
What next?
• We need to relate everything we do back to the
strategy!
• Review all our work streams
• Use the strategy as a resource and reference tool
• Year on year improve our workforce planning
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Summary of Education Commissioning Process
(East Midlands LETB)
LETC workforce plans
Care Pathway
Workshops
(June)
(July – August)
The countywide workforce
plans are produced in
partnership with
stakeholders across the
community by the
workforce team. The
plans link with the service
commissioners intentions
and priorities, this includes
across health and social
care organisations.
The main themes of these
plans from across the East
Midlands forms the basis
of the Care Pathway
workshops held during July
and August, with
contribution from
stakeholders , in relevant
the professions and
organisations. The
workshops hosted in 2013
were: Children’s Health,
Maternity and New born,
Mental Health, Learning
Disabilities, Prevention
and Primary Care and
Planned Care.
Commissioning Events
(Aug – Sept)
A series of professional
focused meetings are held
to extrapolate relevant
details from the
discussions, workforce
plans and national drivers
to inform the decisions on
the numbers to
commission for the future
workforce and where
appropriate the type of
course e.g. Bachelors or
Masters level. The
attendees at these
sessions participate in a
robust discussion, prior to
the decision being taken to
the governing body for
ratification. From this
point the HEIs are engaged
in the discussions on
implementing the
outcomes of the process.
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Your LETB needs you!
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