Workforce Planning
Tameside Learning Disability
Service
Workforce Planning
• What have we got already?
• Diverse Community Health service
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Autism specialist
Epilepsy Specialist
Hospital Liaison
GP Liaison
Behaviour support services
Community nursing
Psychology
Speech and Language
Physio
CITRUS Specialist – Breakaway and physical Intervention model
Workforce Planning
• Work in partnership with
– NHS Tameside & Glossop
– Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council (TMBC)
– Tameside’s People First
– Tameside General Hospital
– Training Consortium
Workforce Planning
• Workforce Development Strategy in Place that explains how we
plan to deliver the training and out progress so far.
Adult Services Workforce Development 20112012 - Activity Plan – April 2011
• This paper is an outline of what is needed to make sure we
implement the Tameside Adult Services Integrated Local Area
Workforce Strategy.
• The strategy has been divided up into 6 sections
1. Service Delivery
(Council and PVI workforce)
•Consortium
•Calendar
•Qualifications
•Service development
6. Social Worker & PQ
•Trainee SWs – placements &
practice educators
•NQSW (new social workers)
•Post Qualification (existing
staff)
2. Assessment, Care
Management & Early
Intervention
Workforce
Development
Strategy
5. Mental Health
•Cross Service/partnership
(e.g. Dementia, MCA, DOLS)
•AMHPs recruitment, support
and development
3. Leadership
Development
•Qualifications
•Continuing professional
development
4. Service
Development
•Cross-sector working (e.g.
safeguarding partnership)
•Service redesign activity
LD Health Team - Workforce
Specific
Professional
training
Nursing / Physio/
Speech Therapy
Experienced
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competent
practitioner
Continued
professional
development
Offender Health
• Bradley Report
• Strategy Group
• Development of Pathways and Training needs
Training Hospital Staff
• Hospital Liaison Nurse delivers classroom based sessions
– Induction courses
– Patient Focussed (PF) Sessions
– Indirectly through visits to wards
People First
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Ambulance Staff
Police
Age Concern
Ashton Mencap
Breakthrough UK
Tameside Adult Placement scheme
TMBC
Tameside Link
Student Nurses – Salford Uni
Future Actions
• Involve people supported with LD more in training
• To further diversify the LD workforce
• Be involved in the updating of the Tameside
Training Consortium strategy
References
• www. tameside.gov.uk
• www.tamesidehospital.nhs.uk
• www.tamesideandglossop.nhs.uk
Thank you
Contact details:
Shirley Chappell
Lead Nurse– Learning Disability Service
0161 342 5207
shirleychappell@nhs.net