The health and care sector’s collective ambition for greater integration and better care means that strategic workforce management is integral to ICSs delivering the vision for ‘one workforce’.
Our workforce resilience, planning and transformation service enables systems to implement a population and place-based workforce planning approach to improve the quality of care, as well as providing the organisational development required for system-wide collaboration and generating energy for change.
Our support includes:
- Integrated workforce planning - workforce profiling to provide transparency, future needs analysis to understand capability and capacity at a programme, pathway and place level
- Workforce strategy development – ensuring health systems have the required number of people, with the right skills and in the right locations to deliver their vision
- Attracting and retaining resource – including specialist recruitment for hard to fill roles
- Training, leadership and organisational development – upskilling workforces to meet present and future needs
- Cultural development – utilising the Oxford Value and Stewardship Programme to create a culture of value-based healthcare and stewardship that supports delivery of the triple aim duty
- System and organisational change management – supporting staff to adapt to new ways of working required to deliver transformation
- Digital inclusion and readiness – improving digital enablement and literacy to enhance the use of technology and data insights in achieving sustainability
- Workforce health and wellbeing – supporting staff recovery, health and wellbeing to aid integration and efficiency.
Our key strengths and expertise:
We combine extensive leadership development expertise with practical experience of what really works when it comes to workforce planning and transformation. We have worked with leaders across health and social care to develop the shared values, culture and behaviours required for true partnership working and system transformation.
As part of the NHS family, we work with a large number of health and care organisations across England. In addition to our in-house delivery, we also bring leading expertise from a range of specialist private sector partners.
Service benefits
Our workforce transformation, resilience and planning services will help you to:
- Visualise the whole system in one place, at one time
- enabling co-operative resourcing to improve pathways spanning multiple organisations - Ensure you have a correctly sized workforce, with the required skills and organised in the right way to deliver the best possible patient care
- Enhance workforce culture to deliver integration and
efficiencies - Promote staff recovery and support health and wellbeing
- Manage the transition of people across the system and support passporting
- Enable intelligence driven workforce decision making.
RELEVANT READING
Arden & GEM is already helping healthcare systems to deliver Workforce resilience, planning and transformation solutions. Find out more by accessing the resources below.
Converting existing nurse competency frameworks into a Digital Paediatric Skills Passport
NHS Arden & GEM’s Clinical Support team was engaged by NHS England to provide programme management and strategic leadership to digitalise paediatric critical care competency frameworks.
Join our new webinar series to address NHS planning and decision-making challenges
NHS Arden & GEM is joining together with Anaplan to host a series of focused webinars designed to address the key challenges in NHS planning and decision-making.
Undertaking a quantitative and qualitative analysis of the virtual ward workforce
The NHS England Elective Workforce Recovery team commissioned Arden & GEM to undertake quantitative and qualitative analysis to identify relationships between workforce and operations.
Workforce modelling support for the NHS England Cancer Analysis and Insights Team
The NHS England Cancer Analysis and Insights Team required analytical support to collate existing demand models and overlay expected workforce supply figures to project how many staff would be needed across different cancer job roles. They reached out to Arden & GEMs Advanced Analytics Unit (AAU) for support with modelling future workforce demand for cancer pathways.
Finalists for the Investors in People Health and Wellbeing Award
Arden & GEM has been shortlisted in the Health and Wellbeing category at the Investors in People Awards 2024.
NHS Integrating Care Conference: Hear from our Executive Director on the role of dynamic planning
Arden & GEM’s Executive Director of Strategy, Planning and Innovation, Alison Tonge, will be joining the NHS Integrating Care Conference on Wednesday 2 October 2024 to share how a dynamic connected planning approach can support our aspirations to deliver better integrated care.
Six steps to embedding health and wellbeing to nurture your team
Katrina Darwent, Health and Wellbeing Business Partner at NHS Arden & GEM CSU, shares the six steps that we have identified to guide a strong health and wellbeing strategy in this latest blog for Healthcare Leader.
Building an inclusive culture of leadership in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland ICS
In April 2022, NHS Arden & GEM was engaged as a strategic partner to support Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland (LLR) ICS in its ambition to create a system-wide inclusive culture of leadership.
Arden & GEM awarded ‘We invest in wellbeing’ Platinum accreditation
NHS Arden & GEM has become just the third organisation in the UK to achieve ‘We invest in wellbeing’ Platinum accreditation following an assessment by Investors in People.
Working backwards: Benefit realisation as a daily tool for accountability and impact recognition
Benefit realisation can serve as a powerful daily tool to foster a culture of accountability and impact recognition within healthcare organisations and systems, explains Alison Tonge, Executive Director of Strategy, Planning and Innovation at NHS Arden & GEM.
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