Workforce Planning

Tameside Learning Disability Service

Workforce Planning• What have we got already?

• Diverse Community Health service– Autism specialist– Epilepsy Specialist– Hospital Liaison– GP Liaison– Behaviour support services– Community nursing– Psychology– Speech and Language– Physio– CITRUS Specialist – Breakaway and physical Intervention model

Workforce Planning• Work in partnership with

– NHS Tameside & Glossop

– Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council (TMBC)

– Tameside’s People First

– Tameside General Hospital

– Training Consortium

Workforce Planning

• Workforce Development Strategy in Place that explains how we plan to deliver the training and out progress so far.

Adult Services Workforce Development 2011-2012 - Activity Plan – April 2011

• This paper is an outline of what is needed to make sure we implement the Tameside Adult Services Integrated Local Area Workforce Strategy.

• The strategy has been divided up into 6 sections

Workforce Development

Strategy

2. Assessment, Care Management & Early

Intervention

3. Leadership Development

•Qualifications•Continuing professional

development

4. Service Development

•Cross-sector working (e.g. safeguarding partnership)

•Service redesign activity

1. Service Delivery(Council and PVI workforce)

•Consortium•Calendar

•Qualifications•Service development

6. Social Worker & PQ•Trainee SWs – placements &

practice educators•NQSW (new social workers)•Post Qualification (existing

staff)

5. Mental Health•Cross Service/partnership (e.g. Dementia, MCA, DOLS)

•AMHPs recruitment, support and development

LD Health Team - WorkforceSpecific

Professional trainingNursing / Physio/ Speech Therapy

Continued

professional

development

Experienced and compete

nt practitio

ner

Offender Health

• Bradley Report

• Strategy Group

• Development of Pathways and Training needs

Training Hospital Staff

• Hospital Liaison Nurse delivers classroom based sessions

– Induction courses

– Patient Focussed (PF) Sessions

– Indirectly through visits to wards

People First

• Ambulance Staff• Police• Age Concern• Ashton Mencap• Breakthrough UK• Tameside Adult Placement scheme• TMBC • Tameside Link• Student Nurses – Salford Uni

Future Actions• Involve people supported with LD more in training

• To further diversify the LD workforce

• Be involved in the updating of the Tameside Training Consortium strategy

References

• www. tameside.gov.uk

• www.tamesidehospital.nhs.uk

• www.tamesideandglossop.nhs.uk

Thank youContact details:Shirley Chappell

Lead Nurse– Learning Disability Service0161 342 5207

shirleychappell@nhs.net