WORKFORCE MODERNISATION IN ESSEX

1
WORKFORCE MODERNISATIONIN ESSEX
Steve Buggle Director of Workforce Modernisation
and Development
2
Our Approach

• Link with service modernisation.
• Part of national scene.
• Supporting strategic change.
• Locality approach.

3
(No Transcript)
4
Localities

• North East
• Mental Health
• Mid
• South East
• South West
• West

• Brendan Osbourne
• Patrick Geoghegan
• Mike Harrison
• Malcolm McCann
• Mary-Ann Munford
• Aidan Thomas

5
Projects

• ADP Programmes
• Emergency Care Practitioner
• Emergency Nurse Practitioner
• Generic Support Worker in Intermediate Care
• GP Administrative Support (GPAS)
• STR Worker
• Primary Care

• 2 National EWTD pilots
• Medical Assistants
• Pharmacy Technician
• Surgical Practitioner Trials
• 100 plus local CWP

6
People

• All levels
• All professions
• All sectors

7
Investment

• 600K to the 6 workforce localities to support
  local modernisation priorities
• 100K mental health workforce
• 140K for Essex wide Emergency Care Practitioner
• 365K support EWTD
• 230K support National EWTD pilots
• 70K care group modernisation
• 133K pay modernisation

8
Essex Projects

• Emergency Care Practitioner/Community Paramedic
• Generic Support Worker in Intermediate Care
• Surgical Practitioners in Orthopaedics and
  Plastics
• Medical Assistant
• Pharmacy Technician
• Assistant Radiographers
• Graduate Mental Health Workers

• Clinical Nurse Specialists
• Medical Nurse Practitioners
• Generic Assistant Rehab Worker
• GP Support Roles
• STR Worker
• Theatre Support Worker
• Extended roles for District Nurses
• Cardiac Physiologists

9
2004/05

• Locality workforce modernisation.
• CWP promote modernisation at all levels.
• Sustainable medical staff.
• Development of future workforce modernisation
  strategies.
• Modernisation of the Care Group workforce.
• Pay modernisation agenda.

10
West Essex

• AE diversion schemes
• Emergency Care Practitioner
• Work around Chronic Disease Management
• Enhanced roles for District Nurses

11
Mid Essex

• Generic Support Worker in Intermediate Care
• Surgical Practitioners in Plastics and
  Orthopaedics
• Theatre Imaging Support Worker
• Advanced Stroke Assistant

12
North East

• Referral and Booking Centre Orthopaedics
• Development of HCA role
• Surgical Navigator
• Clinical Pharmacy Technicians

13
South East

• Consultant in Emergency Medicine
• Medical Nurse Practitioner
• Medical Assistant
• Assistant Radiographer

14
South West

• GP Administrative Support
• Pharmacy Technician
• Emergency Paramedic/Ambulance Technician Pilot
• Cognitive Impairment and Dementia Care Management

15
Mental Health

• Mental Health Carer Support Workers
• Support Time and Recovery (STR) Worker
• Extended roles for Dementia Care Nurses
• Specialist Practitioners Deliberate Self Harm

16
Emergency Care Practitioner

• Autonomous practitioners.
• Extended skills enabling them to see and treat
  patients.
• Work in a variety of settings e.g. MAU, GP
  Surgeries.
• Essex-wide project.

• Patients treated in most appropriate place.
• AE 4 hour wait.
• Category A call 8 minute target.
• Career pathway for ambulance staff.
• Out of hours cover.

17
Surgical Practitioners

• Development of Surgical Assistants in
  Orthopaedics and Burns and Plastics.
• Assist the Consultant with operations where
  appropriate.
• Mid Essex Hospitals NHS Trust

• Helps EWTD compliance.
• Frees up Consultant time.
• New career pathway for staff.
• Reduction in waiting times.

18
Generic Support Worker

• Introduction of new role of Generic Support
  Worker working across health and social care.
• Witham, Braintree Halstead Care Trust and
  Thurrock PCT/Social Services.

• Reduced number of delayed discharges.
• Reduced number of hand-offs.
• Increased number of high level intensity packages
  of care.
• Acute admission avoidance.

19
Medical Assistant

• Medical Assistants undertake tasks traditionally
  done by Junior Doctors e.g. taking routine
  observations, bloods and setting up trolleys etc.
• Southend Hospital NHS Trust.

• Helps meet EWTD compliance.
• Frees up Junior Doctor time.
• AE 4 hour wait target.