Leadership and Workforce
Delivery of the transformation of adult social care as set out in Putting People First demands a skilled and flexible workforce.
Leadership and workforce issues cross cut national policy, cultural, system and organisational change within adult health and social care. The NWJIP leadership and workforce work stream impacts on and links with all other NWJIP workstreams.
Work stream overview
Our key areas of focus will be strategic workforce planning, workforce re-modelling, joint and integrated ways of working and dementia - reflecting the regional priorities identified by the NWJIP Programme Board.
Much of the identified activity in this document connects with Skills for Care priorities. Partnership between the JIP and Skills for Care at the regional level will therefore ensure the most effective service delivery.
Similarly, the workforce and leadership strand of work within the NWJIP “One Plan” cuts across several other objectives, particularly delivering personalisation, making the strategic shift, effective commissioning and market development. Alignment of the work across the JIP One Plan is crucial to avoid duplication of effort.
Priority areas for 2010/11
Workforce strategy
- This work stream will build on the 09-10 activity and run a series of three action team development programme meetings for the local authority workforce planners. We will run also run a series of facilitated sessions to local authority assistant directors on:
- integrated local area workforce strategy ( InLAW) and how it fits with the Joint strategic needs assessment ( JSNA).
- understanding InLAW and how it is informed by the transformation process, and
- developing greater understanding of the use of workforce intelligence such as the National Minimum Data Set (NMDS).
InLAWS Phase two
We are moving into phase two of the Integrated Local Area Workforce Strategy Action Team development days. Building on the success of phase one, we will run a further 4 sessions for local authorities which will include a range of issues looking at the use of workforce intelligence to inform InLAWS and how this can then be used to inform and support commissioners to develop the local provider market.”
Commissioning
This work stream will aim to determine and deliver a commissioner development programme that:
- builds upon the work of the commissioning work stream
- embeds common core principles and National Occupatonal Standards into commissioning plans, and
- is focussed on the implementation of the commissioning strategies that support workforce development within adult social care provider organisations.
Workforce re-modelling
This work stream is made up of:
- workforce redesign
- We will work with providers to promote the use of workforce redesign principles and an organisational development toolkit.
- social work
- We will devise a follow up activity to the successful Question Time event (April 2010). Podcasts and FAQs from this event will be made available on the Skills for Care website www.skillsforcare.org.uk
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Workforce development - support for personal assistants
Following on from 2009/10 activity, we will develop and run an event with relevant stakeholders and develop an action plan for infrastructure activity in the following areas:
- strategic personal assistant (PA) workforce planning (linked with National Minimum Data Set for SC), and
- consistent access to learning and development opportunities
Joint and integrated working - regional workforce development action plans
The work stream will develop a project to support the workforce development implications of the National Dementia Strategy.
We are currently mapping learning and development activity across the NW dementia workfoce. Mapping results and recommendations will shape further activity and be posted on this page as soon as they become available.
Our stakeholders
Key stakeholders for this work stream include:
- social care providers in the private, voluntary and independent sector
- directors of adult social services,
- workforce and transformation leads
