Stroll and speak
Nigel Taylor, CareTech’s Head of Studying and Growth:
The CareTech Senior Adults workforce hosted colleagues from the Division of Well being and Social Care (DHSC) lately. This included a gathering to debate present workforce initiatives for the social care sector after which visiting providers to fulfill with entrance line employees, managers and people we help.
It was a possibility to debate present initiatives and their implications and in addition a possibility for DHSC colleagues to look at entrance line apply in quite a lot of settings.
This was a optimistic go to for DHSC and CareTech, either side studying from one another and gaining a greater understanding of how we are able to work collectively to enhance workforce capabilities and retain expert and competent employees.
The initiatives mentioned had been all centered on attraction, recruitment and retention, how finest to implement them and the anticipated influence they might have in creating our workforce. The Care Workforce Pathway, the brand new Care Certificates and the event of a abilities passport all kind a part of the DHSC workforce’s portfolio.
Our senior management workforce set out our place, supporting the view that funding in our workforce by high quality coaching gives a return on funding, with optimistic impacts on commercials, high quality and our folks.
Constructive pathways
Care profession pathways had been a important level of debate. If we get the management and administration proper in our sector then it will assist kind the tradition of the service: clear pathways in order that employees and new entrants can see their attainable profession journey.
CareTech have invested in creating our personal management and administration academy. This has had an influence on our frontline leaders in retaining our managers, supporting efficiency and bettering service high quality.
Nigel Taylor, group head of LD at CareTech and Chair of the ASC Apprenticeship Trailblazer group, was eager to see how these initiatives match with the present assessment of apprenticeship requirements “it was good to see actual engagement with an employer and practitioners, in order that each groups can see the advantages and the place every thing can match collectively.”
It has been agreed additional engagement between our groups will proceed. This is a chance for the sector to assist form these initiatives to ensure they’ve a optimistic influence on our workforce. That is about establishing social care as a profession, delivering high quality care by continuity and consistency.
The view from DHSC
Gareth Younger: The go to was actually optimistic. CareTech had been beneficiant sufficient to allow us to spend time discussing our workforce reforms with their senior leaders and in addition to offer us time visiting a few of their care settings to see how reforms would possibly work in actual contexts.
Personally, I actually valued seeing how the CareTech strategy to studying and growth works. From the values and behaviours they prioritise, by to the programs they use to handle their coaching, and the workshops their registered managers ship to deliver the educational to life.
Olivia Rutherford: The go to to CareTech was extremely useful. The conversations I had with senior leaders and wider employees throughout our go to offered so many essential insights into the supply of our reform programme. Their openness to debate the alternatives and challenges was invaluable and thanks a lot to the workforce for internet hosting us.
