Derbyshire Local Education and Training Council: Opportunities and Challenges

1. Derbyshire Local Education and Training Council:Opportunities and Challenges Jackie Hewlett-Davies July 2013

2. Changes to Workforce, Education& Training as Part of NHS Reform • Health & Social Care Bill 2012 set out changes to the systems supporting workforce planning, education & training • New body, Health Education England, responsible for investment of £5 billion national funding (MPET) • 13 Local Education & Training Boards in England • Responsible for putting together a Workforce Development Strategy & investment plan for education funding based on employers’ needs

3. Health Education England • Purpose: to support the delivery of excellent healthcare and health improvement to the patients and the public of England, by ensuring that our workforce has the right numbers, skills, values and behaviours, at the right time and in the right place • Held to account by DH through the Education Outcomes Framework & annual Education Operating Framework • HEE will hold LETBs to account for their investment of MPET funding through a service level agreement

4. East Midlands Local Education & Training Board • Core Purpose: Develop a high quality, safe and sustainable workforce to meet the health care needs of the people of the East Midlands • Incorporates EMSHA Workforce & Education Team and the Postgraduate Deanery functions • Established to be ‘provider-led’ with an executive team with non executive membership of the Board from NHS employers and education providers in the East Midlands • Responsible for developing an EM workforce development strategy and ensuring the £380 million MPET is invested to meet service priorities

5. Derbyshire Local Education andTraining Council • EMLETB will be supported by building on the existing local community workforce infrastructure • The LETC will be responsible for articulating the workforce development priorities & risks for the locality • The LETC will be inclusive of new partners in HWB Boards, Service Commissioners, Primary Care, Medical & Nursing, Independent Sector • Operating principles & vision for the future workforce have been agreed through engagement workshops • Work is ongoing to develop an operating model that will complement the LETB model

6. Stakeholder Engagement CirclesOf Influence: Derbyshire

7. East Midlands 2011-12 Educationand Training Budget by LocalHealth Community

8. Derbyshire Workforce Development Plan 2013 • Three year plan, refreshed annually, setting out the workforce and training implications of the changes in service delivery – current and future • Provides an evidence base to inform investment of education & training funding at EMLETB, Derbyshire and organisational levels • Provides a focus for system wide partnership working to deliver a workforce with the right skills, knowledge and behaviour • Enables stakeholders to have a shared, consistent voice on what our priorities are for investment and development

9. What We Need From You: Providers/Employers • High quality, robust workforce development plans to provide an evidence base from which to influence LETB decision making • Education investment aligned to service priorities & accountability for MPET funding • High quality delivery of education and training demonstrating achievement of the requirements of the Education Outcomes Framework & LDAs

10. Key Priorities in Health & Social Care • Winterbourne View and Francis Reports into failures in care • Cavendish Review into quality of health and care assistants • ‘Nicholson challenge’ to achieve £20 billion in efficiencies by 2015 • Focus on attitudes and behaviours of all staff • Compassion, dignity and respect in care

11. What we need from education & training providers • Flexibility and responsiveness – willingness to tailor provision to meet our needs rather than ‘off the shelf’ • Expertise on how to maximise our opportunities to access any available funding for provision/apprenticeships or other models • Support to build in evaluation of impact on quality of care/confidence of our workforce to challenge poor practice

12. What we need from education & training providers • Public service values embedded into all provision for health and social care staff in statutory and private/voluntary sector • NHS Constitution sets out values of compassion, dignity and respect and courage to challenge and report poor practice • Embedding Cavendish Review recommendations into provision for health & care assistants • Certificate in Fundamental Care, bridging programmes, higher apprenticeships and other innovative options • Career development framework for care assistants

13. Contact Information • Please contact us if you would like support or to discuss the new arrangements in more detail on 01332 258180 • Contact me on jackie.hewlett-davies2@nhs.net • EMLETB website www.eastmidlandsletb.net • Visit www.eastmidlandsworkforce.nhs.uk/Derbyshire to see the latest information from the team • Find us on Twitter through @DerbysLETCWT for latest updates about the team’s activity