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Grampian Public Health Information Sessions: Current Issues & Future Workforce Trends

Explore the current organizational, financial, and external challenges in public health and anticipate changes in workforce roles and skills. Discover how PHORCaST can assist in supporting evolving roles and skills. Join the discussion on HI-Net forum to contribute your insights.

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Grampian Public Health Information Sessions: Current Issues & Future Workforce Trends

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  1. grampian public healthinformationsessions What are the current issues (organisational, financial, external) ? How do we think that the public health workforce will change? (changes in workforce, changes in practice) What will be needed to support changing roles and skills - and how can PHORCaST help?

  2. What are current issues? • Change and uncertainty Difficulties in planning and implementation due to: • Changing posts and roles across NHS / LA / partners • System review and organisational change • Local and national emergencies • Financial pressures Financial pressures impact on: • Time and resources; fewer staff, additional elements within role; challenges of part-time work; changes in partner organisations • Ring-fencing / general budgets, prioritising locally • Training and CPD • Support needed for CPD (funding, study leave etc.) • Cultural resistance in the workplace – follow-up and support after training • Cascade not happening?

  3. What are current issues? • Public Health system • Disconnect between centre and practitioners in the field • Working in parallel / integrated working • Recognition for Public Health and Health Promotion – not an ‘add on’ • Public health wider workforce • Working with the wider workforce • Integrating Health Improvement / Health Promotion into wider work • Monitoring quality of health promoters’ work • Drivers and targets • Wider health improvement issues not addressed / top down targets • How practical are targets?

  4. What changes in role and practice may we expect? • Focus on evidence base and use of intelligence to better inform work – results to deliver on targets • Some roles ceasing – means work cannot be taken forward • Watching changes in England, there are some changes and developments in Scottish system, maybe further changes following elections • Possible growth in freelancing roles? • Dealing with short-term drivers

  5. Support for PH roles in Scotland • Scotland-focussed strategies, documents • What’s happening now? – available on web pages • Promote the wider view of health improvement and health promotion work • Recognition of value: ‘public health saves lives’ • Raising profile, jobs using PH skills • As a career choice • More tangible

  6. Support for PH roles in Scotland • Training and regulation • Competencies and skills mapping: framework for work roles and activities • Specialist and practitioner regulation – increase awareness and understanding • Use of e-KSF and performance review process to flag up regulation • Support for independent and freelance workers • Share third sector working and learning - dealing with short-termism

  7. Wider discussion YOU CAN contribute your comments to this discussion. Please visit the forum on HI-Net: http://community.nhsscotland.com/hi-net/forums/ShowForum.aspx?ForumID=1161 The national Public Health Workforce Development Group will discuss issues and support by PHORCaST at its June meeting The PHORCaST website can be viewed at: www.phorcast.org.uk The team would be pleased to receive comments about the website itself at any time at the following link: http://www.phorcast.org.uk/feedback.php?url=/index.php.

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