Skills who is there to help

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Skills who is there to help?
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Skills for Health
Skills for Health

• The Sector Skills Council for Health
• Pippa Hodgson
• Regional Director East Midlands

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Skills for Health

• The Sector Skills Council for the health sector.
• Licensed by Department for Education and Skills
  (England) on behalf of all four UK nations
• Supported by all 4 UK Health Departments
• Workforce approx 2.3 million.

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Health sector across the UK

• We cover the whole health sector
• NHS
• Independent / private
• Voluntary employers
• We cover all UK Nations and Regions
• 9 English Regions
• Northern Ireland
• Scotland
• Wales
• www.skillsforhealth.org.uk/nations.php

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Strategic Intent

• Develop a skilled flexible and productive
  workforce for the whole health sector in all UK
  nations, to raise the quality of health and
  healthcare for the public, patients and service
  users

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Sector Skills Agreement (SSA)

• A key mechanism for health sector employers to
• identify their skills needs and gaps
• define and prioritise training and productivity
  requirements now and in the future
• Series of agreements between
• sector employers
• partner organisations
• education/training providers
• funding bodies
• And the government to ensure that
• The skills the sector wants are the skills the
  sector gets

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The Health workforce is diverse

• Benefits from a large number of volunteers
• The workforce is largely female (80)
• 38 workforce part-time (28 whole economy)
• The workforce is predominantly white (89)
• 1/3 is 35-44 years
• A further ¼ is in the 55-64 yr age range

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Health WorkforceBreakdown by Employer Type

• 73 public sector
• 21 private sector
• 2 charity or voluntary sector organisations
• 4 local authorities other organisations

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Conclusions

• Large workforce
• Large mix of employers
• Large range of roles

• Meeting skills needs of employers is a complex
  and challenging task.
• Major implications for mode of delivery of
  training education!

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Skills Academy for HealthJulia
ColstonDevelopment Manager
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Why a Skills Academy for Health?

• Shrinking, changing labour market
• Competition with other sectors
• Strive for cost efficiency
• Workforce fit for purpose
• Address skills gaps
• Capacity and capability

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Skills Academy for Health Overall Role

• Through a Regional and National presence, the
  Skills Academy for Health will champion, apply
  and support the delivery of learning and
  development activities. Focussing on, but not
  confined to, qualifications levels 1 4, these
  activities will be based on National Workforce
  Competences and other workforce solutions
  articulated via the Sector Skills Agreement in
  order to improve the health of the public and the
  quality of healthcare and healthcare services for
  all.

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Functions of Centre

• Management and governance of Regional Academies
• Ensuring consistency and quality of products and
  services
• Collecting and disseminating good practice and
  information
• Interface with DH, DIUS and other national bodies
• Quality assurance of training provision and
  programmes
• Research and development around training
  provision and programmes

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Regional Academies

• Support delivery of 14-19 specialist diplomas
• Improve teacher/trainer and assessor capacity
• Centres of innovation including new learning
  technologies
• Support for employers and training providers
  around work-based learning, use of competences,
  delivery of training programmes. Develop AfC
  bands 1 4 and CF bands 1 9
• Management of pre-employment, youth programmes,
  apprenticeships and Joint Investment Framework
  (JIF not EM)
• Meet Language, Literacy and Numeracy targets

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Regional Academies

• Management of local NVQ centres
• Work with Lifelong Learning Networks on
  progression from Further Education to Higher
  Education
• Brokerage (Specialist) of employer/individual
  development needs
• Information Advice and Guidance services
• Supporting and informing regional Sector Skills
  Agreements
• Supporting and informing the Sector Qualification
  Strategy
• Locally determined activities

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East Midlands Skills Academy Proposed Model

• Build on existing regional structures
• EM SHA Healthcare Workforce Deanery
• Pre Registration and above
• Local Health Community Workforce Teams
• SLA with SHA/MPD for WF Planning LBR
• East Midlands Skills Academy
• SLA with SHA for AfC 1-4 and non clinical CF1-9
• Employer lead

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Skills Academy for Health EM Structure
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Partnerships
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Benefits

• Partnership improved communication, greater
  understanding
• Demand-led approach
• Value for money, economies of scale
• Improved recruitment and retention
• Widening access and participation
• Outstanding learning experience
• Public health and citizenship

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Health Joint Investment Framework Julie
Bellm24 June 2008
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The HSSA JIF agenda key features

• Partnership national regional relationships -
  Health Sector Strategic Alliance / Regional HSSA
• 3-Year agreement for matched funding. Up to
  5m per region from April 2008
• Delivery infrastructure, brokerage,
  communications
• Commitment to the skills pledge
• Flexibility local relevance ownership
• Monitoring evaluation
• Med/long term sustainability

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East Midlands JIF developments

• East Mids HSSA in place Strategic Health
  Authority (SHA), Skills for Health (SfH) LSC
• JIF operational group in place
• Communications plan being developed
• Data for demand for training for 07/08 next 3
  years obtained

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Forecast training requirements Skills for Life
whole project

• Level 1
• high demand for 4th basic skill IT 4,509
  learners
• literacy 1,210 learners
• Level 2
• high demand for numeracy 2,190 learners
• literacy 1,969 learners

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Forecast training requirements Level 2 whole
project

• Top 4 big hitters
• IT 3,500 learners
• Health Social Care
• Customer Service/Care
• Support Services in Health Care 992 learners

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Forecast training requirements Level 3 whole
project

• Top 4 big hitters
• Health (General Health Care Support) 1210
  learners
• Health Social Care (Adults)
• Business Administration
• Health (Clinical Health Care Skills) 754
  learners

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Forecast training requirements Level 4 whole
project

• Top 4 big hitters
• Foundation degree courses 140 learners
• OU K100
• Management
• Business Administration 112 learners

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Skills Pledge

• 10 organisations signed up to date.
• NHS organisations taking self-help route unless
  Skills Adviser particularly needed
• Any existing SP activity should continue, however
  please advise JIF_at_lsc.gov.uk
• No direct marketing should take place as agreed
  with EMB SHA EM
• Updates on SP signings to be included in monthly
  TtG provider bulletin

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Next steps

• JIF Partnership Manager in place from 1 April
  2008
• Business process for handling training
  requirements being developed with LHC Workforce
  Leads
• Investment plan to be agreed
• Delivery of training from 1st April

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How will it work in practice?
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Contacts

• Skills for Health Regional Director EM Pippa
  Hodgson
• Email pippa.hodgson_at_skillsforhealth.org.uk
• Tel Business 01159813572
• Mobile [phone]
• Skills Academy for Health EM Julia Colston
• Email julia.colston_at_skillsforhealth.org.uk
• Tel Mobile [phone]
• JIF Partnership Manager Julie Bellm
• Email julie.bellm_at_eastmidlands.nhs.uk
• Tel Mobile [phone]