Workforce development for public health and wellbeing

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Workforce development for public health and
wellbeing

• Joanna Chapman-Andrews

January 2010
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The workforce for Public Health ...

• What is it?

• What is your place in it?
• A route map to guide you...

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Public Health Development in England - Overview

• The public health workforce
• Competencies and standards
• the Public Health Skills and Career
  Framework
• Current developments for regulation
• Current DH reviews on health and wellbeing

Public Health Development
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The Public Health Workforce

• CMOs definition Specialist, Practitioner and
  Wider workforce used to structure PH
  Development programmes
• DH now focussing on two priorities
• strengthening capacity and capability of the
  expert and specialist public health workforces
• strengthening capacity and capability for public
  health skills, knowledge and awareness in key NHS
  and Local Government workforces to improve public
  health outcomes

Public Health Development
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Public Health Skills and Career Framework

• Provides overarching framework for knowledge and
  skills requirements for all aspects of PH, and
  across all levels of the workforce
• UK-wide agreement
• Basis for development of National Occupational
  Standards for Public Health
• (2008, updated 2009)

Public Health Development
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Regulation of PH Workforce

• Specialist workforce Multi-disciplinary
  Training Schemes Top-Up schemes for
  specialists Generalist and Defined, via
  portfolio route. Regulated by UKPH Register
  (equiv. NHS Agenda for Change) levels 8
• Practitioner workforce at levels 5-7 PHSCF,
  standards and regulatory processes developed and
  consulted on 2008-9 by UKPHR, launch 2010
• Wider workforce no specific processes,
  application of PHSCF competencies in other
  education training to enhance roles in health
  improvement, etc.

Public Health Development
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The Review of DH policy on Leadership and
Workforce Policy for Public Health Delivery

• Will focus on strengthening public health
  delivery and in doing so will
• Make recommendations on measures to improve the
  capability and capacity in Englands workforces
  to deliver public health outcomes
• Consider the knowledge, skills and competencies
  needed to strengthen public health delivery
• Strengthen regulatory frameworks and quality
  assurance for public health delivery and
• Respond, where relevant, to systems weaknesses
  for public health delivery
• The Review will report and contribute to the SoS
  over-arching review

Public Health Development
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SoS Health and Wellbeing Review

• DH Project commissioned in Spring 09 to look at
• What the role of the state should be in relation
  to peoples health and wellbeing, specifically
  focusing on the prevention of ill-health
• The lessons we can learn about influencing
  healthier lifestyle choices from fields such as
  behavioural economics, psychology and marketing,
  and
• What the Department and the NHS can do to enhance
  delivery of front-line services to improve
  peoples health and wellbeing

Public Health Development
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Developing capacity and capability in South
Central
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Training, Education and Development for Public
Health 2008-2011Programme Implementation Plan
2008-2011

• NHS South Central Improving health and
  alleviating the causes of poor health for the
  benefit of patients, the public and taxpayer
  alike in Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Berkshire,
  Hampshire and the Isle of Wight

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Programmes for Practitioners

• 9 x DPH PH Development Leads /PCTs work with NESC
• (drafting workforce development plans for HWB)
• PH Practitioner Training Scheme
• 5 per cohort per year MSc, placements,
  portfolios, learning sets, mentors, level 7
  competence PHSCF
• PH Practitioner Development Programme
• portfolio development, workshops, seminars
• Education Bursary Scheme funds Academic modules
  and courses in public health

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Programmes for Wider Workforce

• Local Authority organisational development for
  HWB
• Leading Improvement for Health Wellbeing
  Programme
• Health Literacy training (Skilled for Health)
• Health Trainers Hub for South Central
• Staying Healthy prevention project Clinical
  Director-led

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Some resources Public Health Skills Career
Framework http//www.skillsforhealth.org.uk/care
ers-individual-skills-development/career-pathways/
career-frameworks/public-health-career-framework.a
spx Postgraduate academic courses PH
Skills Career Framework competencieswww.publich
ealthcoursesguide.nhs.uk

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• Health Promotion and Community Wellbeing
  Organisation Partnership awards
  http//www.rsph.org.uk/en/policy-and-projects/proj
  ects/health-promotion-and-community-wellbeing-orga
  nisation-and-partnership-awards.cfm
• E-learning module
• Public Health Awareness Raising
• Core Learning Unit Open University

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Key messages from the module...public health is
everybodys business

• What the evidence is telling you
• Where opportunities exist to act
• Why you should take action now
• Changing your own health behaviour
• Helping others to change
• Getting support

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Modules

• Promoting and protecting health everybodys
  business
• Protecting peoples health
• Food and health
• Physical activity
• Mental health and wellbeing
• Tackling unhealthy behaviours alcohol and
  smoking

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• To access the module online
• If you work for an NHS Trust or PCT
•  Self-register online at http//www.corelearningun
  it.nhs.uk
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• If you work for a local authority or other type
  of public sector organisation
•  Self-register online at http//care.corelearningu
  nit.nhs.uk
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• When registering, choose NHS South Central, and
  then select the local authority area in which you
  are based

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Action ?

• joanna.chapman-andrews_at_nesc.nhs.uk