The hub provides information on the national workforce priorities and the national workforce strategy for adult social care. It is a source of good practice on the development and implementation of regional, local and place based workforce strategies.
Welcome
Welcome to the Partners in Care and Health workforce planning hub. Here you can access our support; utilise resources, tools and techniques; develop and share learning; and build connections as you work to create and develop your existing and future workforce.
The hub provides information on the national workforce strategy for adult social care and the national shared workforce priorities. It is a source of good practice on the development and implementation of regional, local and place based workforce strategies.
The resources on this site will help to guide you through how to approach collaborative workforce planning. They will help you to ensure you have the right capacity, capability, engagement and ways of working to deliver great quality care.
Further resources and tools will be added to the workforce planning hub over the coming monthsincluding a ‘What good looks like in strategic workforce pPlanning’ resource.
If you wish to support us in the co-development of these resources or suggest what other resources are needed, please contact us at [email protected].
Our community
This workforce planning hub is for workforce, Human Resources or OD leads, commissioners, service leaders and anyone else in councils involved in developing the workforce for adult social care. Use it to help you secure and develop your workforce, for now and for the future.
Adults social care workforce planning community of practice
When we talk to people in councils who have responsibility for developing the workforce, they often tell us they feel:
- overwhelmed by the size and scale of the task
- not really sure what a collaborative workforce strategy for your whole workforce looks like
- struggling to get the right people together to give workforce planning focus and time; or to know who the “right” people are
- frustrated accessing reliable data to make sensible decisions for the whole workforce
- struggling to prioritise a long list of workforce challenges and opportunities
- would like help to enable people to think differently and identify new fresh solutions to workforce challenges.
Being the person responsible for leading workforce change can feel like a lonely place at times. Being part of a community of people working in similar spaces, tackling similar challenges and exploring new opportunities can be an important source of support. It can help us to stay resilient, develop our learning and confidence, draw on the learning of others and feel more secure about trying new ways of doing things.
As the landscape changes and adult social care is increasingly recognised as a system of connected and inter-dependent parts, the expectation to work together to plan for the future and tackle shared workforce challenges increases. This requires different thinking, approaches and skills from people leading workforce planning. We want to support you in this journey.
Our community of practice provides a safe confidential source of peer support with a little facilitation and coaching from us.
If you’d like to join, us please contact us at [email protected].
Highlighted pages
National workforce strategy for adult social care and workforce priorities
The aim of the strategy is to ‘ensure that we have enough of the right people with the right skills to provide the best possible care and support for the people who draw on it’. The strategy sets out the vision and direction for the sector for the short and longer term under three headings.
Integrated workforce thinking guide: Practical solutions to support integrated care systems
This guide has been written to support employers in integrated workforce thinking, in line with delivering the ICS strategy.
Briefing: Workforce planning in a place
The adult social care workforce in a place is large, diverse and dispersed across many roles, services and organisations. Only seven per cent is directly employed in a council. Here you will find learning to help you to feel more confident and equipped to develop your future workforce for your place.