1. Regional Workforce Programme
Rebecca Jones
Regional Workforce Programme Manager
23 March 2018

2. Background and Context
Workforce identified as a key issue nationally and regionally:
Parliamentary review: Wales should be a great place to train and work
West Wales Population Assessment: shrinking workforce with increased demand for care and support over the next 20 years
RPB: workforce a cross-cutting priority
Social Care Wales: partnerships to be engaged more closely in workforce issues on a regional footprint
Funding for workforce planning and development:
Social Care Wales Workforce Development Programme (SCWWDP)
Facilitation Grant
Quadruple aim:
improve population health and wellbeing through a focus on prevention;
b. improve the experience and quality of care for individuals and families;
c. enrich the wellbeing, capability and engagement of the health and social care workforce; and
d. increase the value achieved from funding of health and care through improvement, innovation, use of best practice, and eliminating waste.
Key recommendation 5: Wales should be a great place to train & work – people are engaged to deliver a continuously improving quality service consistent with the vision and quadruple aim
calls for joint workforce planning across health and social care to address projected shortages and challenges of rurality, and to develop new skills required to deliver integrated services
There should be joint workforce planning at regional (Health Board boundary) level supported by Social Care Wales (SCW), Health Education and Improvement Wales (HEIW) and academia, with an emphasis on expanding generalist skills and new ways of working that enable staff to work at the top of their skill set and across professional boundaries. To deliver this the current and future workforce (including those in undergraduate and postgraduate specialist training) should be skilled in areas such as shared decision-making with service users and carers, team working, prevention and population health and wellbeing, formal quality improvement techniques and the use of new technologies to support the development of new models of providing care.

3. A Regional Approach Co-produced regional workforce strategy
Regional Workforce Programme Manager appointed into the RCU as operational workforce lead, meeting requirements of Social Care Wales
Sue Darnbrook strategic national and regional lead for workforce (to April 2018)
Programme Manager priorities:
Co-produced regional workforce strategy
Aligning workforce development activity with wider regional programme
Supporting a regional approach to SCWWDP
Managing delivery under the Facilitation Grant
Raising the profile of workforce development and advising other regional work streams
Progressing key projects including regional apprenticeship programme for social work and social care

4. Governance
Regional Workforce Strategy Group chaired by the strategic lead and comprising workforce and service leads
Workforce Engagement Group as a consultative forum including providers – currently under review with a view to absorbing it into a regional innovations forum
Partner Agreement being finalised to oversee regional coordination of SCWWDP

5. Regional Workforce Strategy
Regional workforce planning data and analysis
Regional Workforce Function
Regional Workforce development
Scoping phase undertaken by Institute of Public Care (IPC)
Detailed workshops with workforce leads and HR colleagues to identify priorities
Three areas identified for initial focus

6. Regional Workforce Data Planning and Analysis
Priority as effective data collection will underpin effective workforce planning
Currently 4 principal data collection points (social care):
STF data
SCWWDP data
Commissioned data
Social Worker planning tool
Variances in quality and consistency between counties
Potential for consistent regional approach to data collection and analysis (and possibly a regional data function)

7. Regional Workforce Development: SCWWDP
2018/19 SCWWDP co-produced regionally
Some resources retained at regional level to support workforce development in RPB priority areas (commissioning, mental health, IAA)
Further scope for regional approach in the future
Opportunities for more creative use of funding to support skills development and integrated delivery

8. Regional Workforce Function
Multi skilled teams operate locally and collaborate regionally
Scope for further collaborative working to increase efficiency and effectiveness

9. Regional Workforce Development: Facilitation Grant
Regional funding stream replacing the former Social Care in Partnership (SCiP) funding
Aimed at engagement, increasing awareness and service improvement
Current projects:
Action learning for dom care leaders
Nutrition support for home carers
Attract – Retain – Develop
RISCA awareness & masterclasses

10. Questions/ Areas for discussion
What are the key issues and challenges in relation to workforce?
Are we engaging sufficiently with all sectors and across roles in relation to workforce issues? How can this be improved?
What are your views on the priorities identified for the Regional Workforce Strategy?
What targeted areas should be the focus for workforce development and what resources are available for these?
Others?

11. Rebecca Jones: Regional Workforce Programme Manager 01267 228755 / 07384 242 268 www.wwcp.org.uk