Talent for Care So where are we now?

Talent for Care• Over 500,000 Band 1-4

staff (Dec. 2015 ESR)• 40% of the workforce –

60% of care/service• First national strategy to

guide the direction of the bands 1-4 workforce

• Launched October 2014

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Get inGet on

Go further

The strategy is based on three themes

http://eoe.hee.nhs.uk/our-work/1to4/#talentforcare

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Get in, Get on and Go further

Band 1 &Pre-employed

Band 2 & 3

Incorporating the Cavendish recommendations

Incorporating the NHS Constitution and Values

Schools and colleges, NHS Careers, Prince’s Trust, Job Centre Plus, Inspiring the Future, employer-facing campaign, traineeships

Care Certificate and Higher Care Certificate, Apprenticeships and Advanced Apprenticeships

Band 4Foundation degrees; Higher apprenticeships

Band 5+ registered professions & specialist roles

Pre-degree care experience pilot, Higher Apprenticeship in Adult Nursing, Part-time undergraduate courses, Bridging programme.

Close relationship with HEE’s Widening Participation Strategy

http://eoe.hee.nhs.uk/our-work/1to4/#talentforcare

Talent for Care – Some key Activities

Implementation of the Care

Certificate

6,073 completions

14,823 startsInspiring the FuturesHealth

AmbassadorsOver 1300

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Apprenticeship Levy

Mobilisation and readiness

Health SectorApprenticeship

starts 20,000

National Engagement

Encouraging and supporting the development of

Apprenticeships

NHS Employers ‘Think Future Campaign’

Talent for Care Pledge

Over 100 NHS Trusts have committed.

Bridging Programme

10 HE delivering

Research and Evaluation

Evaluation of Talent for Care

Three Areas of Interest

Approaches: whether and how organisations had engaged with TfC. Objectives: whether and how organisations had pursued the strategic intentions presented in TfC. Practices: whether and how organisations had implemented various practices associated with TfC.

Approach•Survey method•124 organisations (approximately 50% of NHS organisations covered)•Mainly completed by Learning and Development/Band 1-4 Leads

(Kessler 2016)

Evaluation of Talent for Care - Findings

Evaluation of Talent for Care - Findings

TfC and HCSW Profile %Yes No Don’t

KnowHad you heard of Talent for Care?N=174

96.0 3.4 0.6

Has Talent for Care been discussed by your organisation’s Board? N=173

48.6 14.5 37.0

Has your organisation held a healthcare support worker conference in the last twelve months? N=173

32.4 56.6 11.0

Does your organisation have a written learning and development strategy for the whole of the workforce?N=172

61.6 22.7 15.7

Does your organisation have a written strategy covering healthcare support workforce (N=172

24.4 52.9 22.2

Evaluation of Talent for Care - Findings

• 64% of responses either strongly agreed or agreed that TFC has raised the profile of the healthcare support workforce in their organisation

• Provided a ‘useful’ framework the training and development of HCSW (84%)

• ‘Sharpened’ this agenda (74%) • Provided ‘added confidence’ in taking forward this

agenda (80%)

• 79% of responses (n-158) indicating that formal monitoring of TFC in place

• 62% indicated that TFC reflects what they are currently already doing

• Only limited union /staff side involvement

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The launch of the Talent for Care Agenda has been excellent to raise the profile and to start to form a strategy for the development of bands 1-4 workforce. It has enabled us to draw up a gap analysis to see what we are delivery and areas we need to work on’.

Evaluation of Talent for Care - Implications

• Promising start

• Pace and scale

• Sustainability

Apprenticeship Levy: Opportunity & Challenge

National Policy•To create and support 3 million apprenticeship starts by 2020•Employer led: Greater employment involvement, control and investment•Renew the value of Apprenticeship•Remove restrictions•Apprenticeship Starts – Public sector target

Apprenticeship Levy•NHS Biggest Levy Payer: £200 million•28,000 Apprenticeship Starts annually•Apprenticeship Public sector target October 2016

Key Message – ‘Think Apprenticeship’

All services

All functions

All Professions

Think mastery

Key Message – ‘Recognising and nurturing our Talent’