Health and Social Care
The Health and Social Care sector spans a broad range of professions, disciplines and employment sectors, each with its own unique challenges.
Working closely with strategic health authorities, sector skills councils, employers and professional bodies, we supported workforce learning and development to fulfil the requirements of key national strategies implemented at a local level. Our sector also included the development of integrated services for children and young people, supporting local authorities and their partners to raise the standards and skills of the workforce and drive forward improvements.
OUR FINAL HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE FORUM
Our final Health and Social Care Forum 'Celebrating Success, Achievement and the Future' was held on 17th May 2011 at Dorney Lake, Windsor. The aim of this final Forum was for partners and stakeholders in the sector to celebrate the successes of the last few years.
Professor David Sines CBE set the scene with a presentation on 'Change ...Read More
Our Health and Social Care Forum met termly and became a key regional forum that brought sector specialists from HE and FE institutions together with employers and other health and social care stakeholders to develop and shape work on vocational progression into and through higher education. Read more
Forum May 2011: 'Celebrating Success, Achievement and the Future'
EXAMPLES OF OUR HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE PROJECTS
Review & Facilitation of Social Care provision in CPD programmes in Health & Social Care
Partnership work between the
Work by Skills for Care to train staff with higher level skills and knowledge to work with clients/patients with dementia.
Evaluation of Foundation Degree
Review of the effectiveness of the Health and Social Care Foundation Degree in developing the Assistant Practitioner role.
Field Care Supervisors in Domiciliary Care Agencies in
The creation of outline development programmes including a progression route from research undertaken to identify models and practical application of the role of Field Care Supervisors in Domiciliary care settings.
Work by the Surrey Care Association to explore the potential for developing a graduate trainee scheme for Adult Social Care in
Training programme for Mentors of Health Care Assistants
A new training programme has been developed for the mentors of the Health Care Assistants to ensure that they have the required knowledge and skills to mentor those on the Access to Higher Education.
Research to attract and support nurses to work in adult social care
Work by Surrey Care Association to explore practical and achievable ways of attracting, retaining and supporting nurses to work in the adult social care sector in
What makes work experience work?
Research project led by Bracknell & Wokingham College on behalf of the Berkshire Skills for Care Group aiming to get a clear understanding of the employer perspective of work experience in order to stimulate the offer of more placements for school/college students undertaking health and social care courses
Developing vocational progression pathways into pre-registration nursing
The purpose of this project was to develop clear and consistent progression pathways from further into higher education across NHS South Central SHA in the light of the move towards an all-graduate nursing workforce
Launch event for the Diploma in Leadership in multi-agency settings
Event to launch a new CPD initiative, aimed at team leaders within Buckinghamshire County Council Children's Services
Berkshire Care Ambassadors
Young people from Berkshire schools were able to explore routes into the caring profession, via a play about a 15-year old boy who uses a wheelchair following an accident. The day formed part of a project we are currently funding to support and further develop the work of Berkshire Care Ambassadors to stimulate interest in careers in health and social care.
Supporting Employers in developing Bands 1-4 Workforce: the Education Agenda
Joint event with the Higher Education Academy and NHS South Central SHA, focusing on support worker education
Valuing the Support Worker Role - Care, Commitment, Development
Development of an award pathway for mental health support workers within Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, part of the innovative Aspire programme
Domiciliary Care Services Progression Pathway
Mapping exercise and development of a progression pathway specific to the Domiciliary Care Sector
CPD Level 4 module for the work-health trainer role
Support for the development and accreditation of a CPD Level 4 module as a necessary resource to train current health professional employees of Berkshire East Primary Care Trust to become Work Health Trainers
Support for work-based learning: a package for work-based mentors of Foundation degree students in the Health and Social Care sector
Development of an electronic audit tool and a certificated course 'Introduction to Enabling Learning'
Progress to Higher Education: Raising Aspirations in Vocational Areas
Project delivering a variety of support measures to raise students' career aspirations with regard to progression to HE, focusing specifically on learners following programmes in Health and Social Care
'Maintaining mental health in children and young people'
Conference to raise awareness around progression through higher education and also to encourage students to take on mentor roles in the future.
CPD framework for NHS staff employed in Bands 1-4
Development of a Continuous Professional/Personal Development (CPD) Framework for NHS South Central Strategic Health Authority staff working at NHS Bands 1 to 4