North West AHP NetworkSupporting AHPs to

Deliver Excellent Care

Sue LouthProgramme Manager – AHPsHealth Education North West

3.6.15

Overview

What is the North West AHP Network?How does it function?AHP Network websiteWhat does a Network do?Strategic linksCurrent work programmesChallenges

‘How an overlooked workforce is key to rescuing the NHS’

The Guardian, February 2015

AHPs- The invisible workforce?

So how can an AHP Network help?

NETWORKING

Influencing, engaging, communicating, connecting, reconnecting, learning, sharing, meeting, leading, improving, advocating, creating, innovating, including, asking, listening, actioning, energising, impacting, making friends

The North West (NW) AHP Network providesprofessional leadership, advice and expertise, to enable the national, regional and local strategic and policy agenda to be influenced by AHPs.

The forum engages AHPs in a collaborative network, providing support for the AHP workforce to deliver excellent healthcare and health improvement for patients and service users.

North West AHP Network

North West AHP Network

Open to all AHPs working within the region (11,500 FTEs) Members can chose level of engagement 3 network meetings per year Annual conference

Operates alongside North West AHP Workforce Board

One of 4 networks within Centre for Professional Workforce Development

Functions

• Promote and support clinical leadership and engagement for AHPs

• Communicate and consult with AHPs• Support NW AHP Workforce Board work programmes• Drive innovation through sharing best practice• Identify AHP workforce solutions to commissioning priorities• Support implementation of national AHP work programmes • Engage in and support other networks eg CPD Networks,

CPWD

North West AHP Workforce Board

Strategic group focussing on a broad range of workforce and

education issues

Provides strategic leadership and influence linking closely

with key stakeholders

Members are senior AHP leaders or those with a strategic

responsibility for workforce development

Works with the AHP network to facilitate wider engagement

in work programmes

Accountable to Health Education North West

Mission Statement

The North West AHP Workforce Board will, in collaboration with

key stakeholders, ensure that:

The regional AHP workforce has the right skills, values and

behaviour to deliver excellent healthcare and health improvement

The education, training and development of AHPs is of the highest

standard, resulting in a workforce which is flexible and adaptable

to changing healthcare priorities

A strategic partnership across the 4 professional networks of AHPs, Healthcare Science, Pharmacy and Psychological professions.

Provides a single point of access to over 30,000 healthcare staff across 60 professions and disciplines in the North West who share common priorities and goals.

Facilitates the four networks to meet NHS priorities, professional requirements and the needs of local commissioners.

Establishes links with key stakeholders on behalf of its professions

NW Centre for Professional Workforce Development

Takes a multi-professional approach to align workforce transformation to service priorities.

Identifies and shares innovation and good practice to support service transformation.

Supports the commissioning of new services and service redesign by identifying and developing new ways of working and new roles.

Enables commissioners to satisfy the NHS and Public Health Outcomes Frameworks, by supporting the multi-professional workforce to deliver excellent healthcare & health improvement.

NW Centre for Professional Workforce Development

Network Website

Network Events

Network Champions

SteeringGroup

Engagement

NW AHP Workforce

Board

Network Website

Network Events

Network Champions

SteeringGroup

Website

2,700 registered members

13 professional groups

> 100 organisations

Connecting people across the North West, Leeds, London and India!

Information and signposting

Service improvement database

Events

‘AHPs in Touch’ - forum

So what does the Network do?

Influences strategic developments

Supports service redesign

Develops the workforce

Communicates

Enables the sharing of good practice

Connecting, Sharing, Learning

Supporting, Enabling, Developing

Strategic links

Health Education North WestWorkforce transformation, planning, education

commissioning teamsLocal workforce groupsHigher education providersPlacement Development NetworkNorth West Research and Development TeamNorth West Leadership AcademyAcademic Health Science Networks

Working differently to support service transformation

Exploring new ways of working to support service transformation for older people Have elements of generic working but maintain a strong professional identity Work over seven days and extended hours dependent of the needs of the service Use new technology to support practice and improve patient care & satisfaction while

having a positive impact on service delivery costs Have an increased community presence with the appropriate IT infrastructure to support

this Work across departmental and organisational boundaries to wrap services around patients.

15 case studies Role innovation 7 day services Integration of teams / services Band 1 -4 workforce Advanced practice

Current work streams

AHPs and Urgent Care

Supporting HENW project – shortages of emergency care doctors

Identification of AHP roles to support emergency and urgent care services Advanced practice roles in A & E Alternative urgent care pathways – admission avoidance

AHPs and Public Health

Promotion of AHPs as key practitioners in public health and prevention agendas

Development of training for AHPs to support use of AHP advisory fitness for work report

Development of bespoke training for AHPs to raise awareness, skills and expertise in Public Health

Wider communication strategy – The public health role of AHPs.

Developing clinical leaders

Development of leadership ‘stories’ Links to North West Clinical Leaders Network Multi-professional ‘Leading Transformational Culture Change’

leadership programme for senior leaders Multi-professional ‘Introduction to Leadership’ training

Supporting national AHP programmes of work

NW AHP non-medical prescribing network Identifying good practice and innovation in rehabilitation

Research and Innovation

Multi-professional group focussing on research and innovation 3 sub-regional AHP research networks (Council for AHP Research) Creating cultures of research and innovation in clinical teams Promoting clinical academic careers Links with Academic Health Science Networks and NHS England

innovation team

CPD Identification of training needs across network Influence CPD provision Increasing awareness of systems and funding for CPD Raising the profile of AHPs with education and training leads

Recent Events

CPD and HCPC registrationSummer Conference 17/07/14 – ‘Change –

Transformation Innovation Celebration’ AHPs and Public Health Supporting early career AHPs

2015 Conference‘Resilience in the face of Adversity’

• ‘This was a fantastic event and has really stimulated me to go back and make a change!’

• ‘It has made me think about my own practice and how I can improve the service that I give to people….. I feel inspired!’

Future work programmes

Career pathwaysBands 1-4Advanced practice

Supporting service developmentIntegrated working and generic roles7 day services – what does this mean for the AHP

workforce?

Challenges

Balance between the AHP and uni-professional voice

Engaging with less senior parts of workforce

Engaging with non NHS sectors

Time

I know half, and I know two guys who each know half of

half, so together we’re altogether. Let this be a lesson in networking.

Jarod Kintz

If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go

with others.

African proverb

Thank you

Sue.louth1@srft.nhs.uk

www.ahpnw.nhs.uk

@NWAHP