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Skills as Growth Accelerator: A Public/Private Endeavor

Skills as Growth Accelerator: A Public/Private Endeavor. Joanna Woolf Cogent SSC. Our Challenge. The industry landscape has changed but there are signs of recovery The worst is over, economic forecast brighter and earnings are set to rebound in 2013.

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Skills as Growth Accelerator: A Public/Private Endeavor

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  1. Skills as Growth Accelerator: A Public/Private Endeavor Joanna WoolfCogent SSC

  2. Our Challenge • The industry landscape has changed but there are signs of recovery • The worst is over, economic forecast brighter and earnings are set to rebound in 2013. • To inspire confidence we need a new approach: • Full and open access to the NHS – industry/NHS partnership on skills • Collaborative research -attractive to private investment in innovation • Developing an industry that is fit for the future which will be attractive inward investors and will foster growth in SME’s • Skills and competence are part of the solution to deliver a life sciences industry that is ready for growth.

  3. The Proposal • To generate, for the first time, an integrated life sciences workforce • Where innovation is shared across public/private sector • And there is an on-going conversation on research and the exchange of ideas between public and private sectors • Allowing skills to become the medium of innovation and growth

  4. Good Governance Government Industrial Strategy Strategic Industry Forum MISG Life Sciences NDF/NIA Nuclear IBLF Ind. Bioscience Chemical Using Life Sciences Skills Board Process Industries Skills Board Nuclear Industry Skills Board Science Institute Skills Partnership Board Regional employer/provider groups (local demand) Quality Assured Providers (local provision) Centres of Excellence (new technology skills)

  5. What does this mean? • Formation of a partnership, driving skills development with fresh ideas and fresh thinking • Creating an understanding and an opportunity for dialogue at all levels • Using a common skills agenda to foster growth across the life sciences sector

  6. The Design Building on the impressive skills infrastructure already developed as part of Modernising Scientific Careers Academy for Healthcare Science Workforce Development Information and Skills Brokerage Regional Delivery for SME’s

  7. Academy for Healthcare Science • The opportunity to use the Academy infrastructure and its people to enable both public and private sectors to: • work together • develop ideas • have translational and recognised career progression • have regional access for SME’s to support them with acquiring the skills they need Leading to .... A total Life sciences Workforce

  8. Industrial Partnership for Science Skills Consultant / Higher Specialist Life Science Career Pathways Professional & Higher Level Practitioner Technical Associate & Assistant Operatives & Production Modernising Scientific Careers, NHS Academy

  9. Workforce Development • Ideas and innovation spread by people. Facilitating: • Portability of qualifications • Understanding and transferable career progression • Removal of barriers allowing working across boundaries Enabling: A Life sciences Professional Training Framework to deliver a life sciences workforce fit to deliver growth

  10. Information and Skills Exchange • Allowing an exchange of information and ideas • Brokering secondments on a project basis into Universities, Hospitals and the Private Sector. • Letting people influence innovation, free from the confines of individual; corporate and institutional agendas. • Creating a skills ecosystem with parity of esteem, respect and value.

  11. Delivery the way SME’s want it.. • Catapult and Centres of Excellence easily accessible by SME’s locally when they need support, in the way they need support • Building on what we have aligned with the growth agenda, delivering a real competitive advantage

  12. Summary • Why? • NHS - benefits from the innovation, commercial acumen and market knowledge in the private sector • Private Sector- benefits from access to the NHS at all levels, the bespoke MSC Framework and the opportunity to build a lasting partnership

  13. What will transformation look like? Government Investment • The Benefits • Employer influence on skills & education system - skills investment married to industry signals & needs • Simplified infrastructure with a visible and consistent skills framework for the sector • The sector responsible for the sector solutions • Simplified funding route – easy to access Employers direct Government Investment and determine the focus Employers Partnership Employers purchase what they need HE FE Private Providers

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