We are running this workshop to discuss and share the outline of the planned work and identify a small number of locations (3-4) that would be interested in participating over the next year as part of the Integrated Care System (ICS) People plan and workforce strategies.
RSPH and BBI have both been working on projects around inequality and employment over the last 12 months. The BBI team have been exploring how their work on inequalities and employment can better support the core challenges for both system and place, especially ways in which we can strengthen ‘more and different’ pathways into employment.
In parallel, RSPH has been working with ICSs to develop lived experience inclusive career pathways. RSPH has been working with multiple ICSs to utilise our accredited qualifications to support the translation of early entry roles into opportunities that provide disadvantaged candidates with multiple career options across the system.
Working together with a small number of ICS locations, there are three priority areas that we believe can be practically embedded through the programme:
1. More and different – growing more of our own workforce and developing different ways of working
2. Skills over roles –focusing upon skills and competencies rather than just roles
3. Framing – using the anchor powers of an ICS to enable employment to become a pathway out of inequality
We hope that through this event and the following programme we can address the following areas:
Barriers to innovation – a culture of risk aversion in the NHS can inhibit innovation, we can use the partnerships across ICSs alongside new central permissions to better support performance, governance and productivity for inclusion.
Development of templates and genuine pathways to career and employment that have been road tested with users from those groups and communities that face the greatest barriers to good employment - including area wide commitments to work placements and entry points such as new apprenticeships for designated population groups.
Establishing the practical principles and benefits case for more people applying from the target groups and different ways of ensuring appointment and retention - in a way that is effectively aligned with health population and strategic workforce planning that will secure long term economic benefits and healthier communities.
Selecting one demonstrator population group such as care leavers whereby we can show how working with other governmental departments e.g., DHSC, DLUHC, DFE can better support development of career pathways that work for care leavers as part of the NHS Care Leavers Covenant - and how this learning can then be rolled out to the benefit of other target groups.
Following the event, the innovative programme will be launched in three ICS areas to explore creating more and better pathways to employment for those who need it most.
How to register
Date: 25/05/23
Time: 10-11:30am
Location: Online
If you are an ICS or local healthcare provider who would like to attend this event, please register by emailing [email protected].
To make this event as relevant to you as possible, BBI would like to discuss how this programme can support your organisation’s agenda and planning by offering you a personal one-to-one briefing, lasting approximately 30 mins, in advance of the event in May. To arrange this meeting, or for any further information, please contact [email protected].
