Our Team

1. Staffordshire & Stoke-on-Trent STP Workforce ProgrammeMish IrvineHead of STP Workforce ProgrammeSophie McDermidWorkforce Project LeadEmail: Mish.Irvine@mpft.nhs.uk, sophie.mcdermid@mpft.nhs.uk

2. Our Team

3. Are we going the way of the dinosaurs?

4. Staffordshire – Social Care Workforce (Skills for Care data) 80% of the Nurses are over 50! 52% of the Care Workers are over 50 Source : Skills for Care 2017/18.

5. Staffordshire – NHS Workforce Age Analysis The majority of the Nurses, Scientists, Health Care Workers and Admin staff are over 50!! Source : Electronic Staff Record (ESR) March 2018

6. Vacancy Rates in Staffordshire & Stoke-on-Trent There are approx. 1700 health + social care vacancies in Staffordshire & Stoke-on-Trent at any one time.

7. Why are we struggling to recruit?

8. How can we solve this? By working together as ONE

9. Staffordshire – Total workforce by sector Primary Care 2,451 Independent Sector 24,500 LA 1,500 • TOTAL: • 168,799 • Note: • Social care workforce is reported in number of jobs • NHS/Primary Care workforce reported in Full Time Equivalent Population 1,120,000 Source : Population – Office for National Statistics Mid 2016, Unpaid carers – West Yorkshire & Harrogate ratio, Social Care – Skills for Care 2017/18, NHS – Electronic Staff Record as at March 2018, Primary Care – NHS Digital June 2018

10. How are the STP working system wide to improve Recruitment and Retention?

11. Our Website • Staffordshire & Stoke-on-Trent Talent Academy • and New Horizons Hub

12. Our Website: Staffordshire & Stoke-on-Trent Talent Academy and New Horizons Hub Our Focal Points… Explore our Careers Hub for all the opportunities we offer internally and externally. New Horizons Hub Retention Tool Kit Training & Education Redeployment Services Events Starting your professional story with us. Apprenticeships Work Experience Volunteering Vacancies Domiciliary Care Workforce Events About Staffordshire All you need to know about Staffordshire. About Us Life in Staffordshire Vacancies Want to join us? Already work with us?

13. Our Website: Staffordshire & Stoke-on-Trent Talent Academy • Aims: • Engage with young people at the very beginning of their career and introduce them to new ideas and ways of working/earning qualifications. • The theme of the site is ‘Start your Professional Story in Staffordshire & Stoke-on-Trent’ and ‘Live, Learn & Work in Staffordshire & Stoke-on-Trent’ • To bring together information already out there onto one user-friendly platform and streamline our processes. • Design : colourful and interactive following feedback from task and finish groups and engagement with young people aged 11-18

14. Our Website: New Horizons Hub • Aims: • The hub will offer a supportive service for all employees within the Health and Social Care in Staffordshire. We will be able to signpost individuals to provide advice and guidance to help them make the right decisions regarding learning, training and work. • It will also provide helpful guidance to managers with staff who have indicated they want to leave or are unhappy in their current role. • People external to these organisations will also be able to view what we offer our staff across the system. Key Areas include: Shadowing Burn Out Useful Contact Information Training Transfer List Voluntary Work Education Careers Advice • Signposting • Itchy Feet Chats • Opportunities And more!

15. Future Workforce: • Cornerstone Employer • & • Apprenticeship Levy Sharing

16. Cornerstone Employer • What is a Cornerstone Employer? • Employers invested in the successful and sustainable delivery of careers education for young people • Focused leadership group to support schools &colleges and young people in their area • Ensures all young people have opportunities and that they are prepared and inspired for the world of work • A coordinated approach to careers advice and guidance • Staffordshire has a new HUB and the STP will be a cornerstone employer representing H&SCare • Where are we now? • High vacancies • Skills gap • Future labour shortage • Need to inspire a younger workforce into the sector • Increase understanding of opportunities • Disjointed careers and linkages with schools • Need to inspire our future workforce in the most strategic and coordinated way to create the biggest impact • Benefits • Grow the future workforce supply • Increase knowledge of a complex system into young people. • Influence on the H&S careers advice to the benefit of the sector. • Increased knowledge & opportunities through teachers, students and parents. • Spread out resources in the most effective way to create a greater impact (no performance monitoring) • Partnership working across the system so that all parts of the sector are represented when interacting with groups that are within the scope of the HUB. • . We’re working with 40 schools in Staffordshire & Stoke-on-Trent and improving access to Work Experience

17. Apprenticeship Levy Sharing • Following on the Workforce Think Tank, two key actions emerged: • 1. Create a short term action plan for the system to utilise Apprenticeship Levy due to be lost as soon as April 2019. • 2. Create a long term plan to increase the utilisation of apprenticeship levy and increase uptake to apprenticeships and awareness of apprenticeships within the sector. As of the 21st February 2019; 104 apprenticeships have been applied for with a total of £570,000 of levy funds requested to be shared.

18. Sustainability: • National Recruitment Campaign • & • Health & Social Care Graduate Pathway • & • Retention schemes

19. National Recruitment Campaign Radio Evaluation Motivators Gloucestershire + Tyne & Wear TV Videos Social Media Communicators Hard to Reach Campaigns Pilots Research • Skills for Care & the STP hosted Department of Health & Social Care (DHSC) National Adult Social Care Recruitment Campaign Workshop on Monday 11th February. • Over 30 providers attended. • Attendees discussed 5 main topics from the DHSC National Recruitment Campaign Toolkit; Improving the Selection Process, Local PR, Improving Employee Referrals, Events and use of Social Media and Websites. Marketing Collaboration Toolkit Creative Imagery Free Promotion Posters Leaflets New Materials Tips & Ideas

20. Health & Social Care Graduate Pathway Path to Social Worker

21. Health & Social Care Graduate Pathway Path to Registered Manager

22. Retention ‘Touch points’ Understanding the role Adverts Future workforce supply Transfer • ‘Stay’ chats • Career Chat • Development • Talent Mgmt • Appraisal • Retirement support VBR On-boarding New starters 12month itch Retaining students Leadership: Valuable Conversations, Career chat, Coaching /mentoring Modern Employment – flex-appeal, careers hub Organisation Culture: team dynamics, temperature checks, surveys

23. Retention ‘Touch points’ • KIT • Come back conversation • RtP schemes • Itchy Feet • Career Hub • Transfer window • Shadowing • Work experience Team Diagnostics ‘Stay’ chat F2f exit chat Career hub Transfer window • Online Exit questionnaire • Incentive to complete Leadership: Valuable Conversations, Career chat, Coaching /mentoring Modern Employment – flex-appeal, careers hub Organisation Culture: team dynamics, temperature checks, surveys

24. How can we work together create our future workforce ?

25. Example: British Armed Forces What is their approach to recruitment and why is it effective? Job Stability / Life Long Career Promotion Opportunities Inspires Unity Training & Qualifications Variation of Roles Pay Benefits (Housing, Pension, Discounts, Flexibility, Medical Care) Sense of Belonging

26. DISCUSSION: • What are you currently doing and how can we get involved? • Good Practice? • Apprenticeships? • School contacts? • Work Experience? • Recruitment Campaigns? • Events? • Opportunities?

27. Thank you • Come and see us at our stall!