Health Education England, April 2019
This framework, produced by Health Education England, aims to help health and social care employers improve the mental wellbeing of their employees. The framework encourages employers to take a closer look at the systems they currently have in place for managing staff wellbeing, to give greater consideration to the impact workforce stress has on staff and to look at the role they can play in providing better support to staff who may need it.
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Category: Employment
Training routes into the NHS – Infographic
NHS Employers, February 2019
This infographic shows the additional options that are available to complement traditional training and recruitment routes.This resource can help employers to identify and consider additional routes that can be used to:
- support workforce challenges
- recruit from the local community
- build career pathways
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Mental Wellbeing Commission report
NHS Staff and Learners’ Mental Wellbeing Commission, February 2019
This report sets out the findings of the NHS Staff and Learners’ Mental Wellbeing Commission. The Commission aimed to discover and review evidence of good practice where the mental health and wellbeing of staff and learners in NHS organisations has been made an organisational priority. The Commission has examined successful interventions from around the country, to identify what has worked well and what could be adopted widely.
Click here to view the full report.
Developing People – Improving Care
NHS Improvement, February 2019
This guidance provides an evidence-based national framework to guide action on improvement skill-building, leadership development and talent management for people in NHS-funded roles.
The framework focuses on helping NHS and social care staff to develop four critical capabilities:
- systems leadership
- established quality improvement methods
- inclusive and compassionate leadership
- talent management
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Health matters: health and work
Public Health England, January 2019
This guidance brings together in one place data, toolkits and evidence of what works in addressing and removing health-related barriers to gaining and retaining employment. It focuses on the actions that can be taken by employers in general, local authorities and the NHS workforce with regards to health and work.
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Working Together
Royal College of Nursing, January 2019
This document has been created by RCN reps and staff, working together to share their experience and expertise for the benefit of the wider rep community.
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Inspire, Attract And Recruit: An Interactive Toolkit To Support Your Workforce Supply
NHS Employers, December 2018
NHS Employers toolkit offering guidance, good practice, checklists, top tips, questions and leading examples from across the NHS, to help employers take stock of what may need to be done to sustain a workforce pipeline. It aims to provide practical information on understanding audiences, how to attract the right people and ensuring employees have the best on-boarding experience.
Click here to view the toolkit.
Care staffing in the NHS: the good, the bad and the promising
BPP University School of Nursing, December 2018
Report from BPP University School of Nursing looking at nurse recruitment. It finds while it is clear that NHS trusts are having to deal with budgetary pressures and a skills shortage which may be exacerbated by Brexit, they are also facing significant changes to their traditional training models. This includes factors such as cuts to bursaries and the declining numbers of those applying for nursing degrees.
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Medical Associate Professions: Checklist
NHS Employers, November 2018
Checklist designed to help recruitment and development of medical associate professions (MAPs) in NHS organisations, and support them to deliver excellent patient care.
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The health care workforce in England: make or break?
The King’s Fund, November 2018
This briefing highlights the scale of workforce challenges now facing the health service and the threat this poses to the delivery and quality of care over the next 10 years. It sets out the reasons why the NHS long-term plan and supporting workforce strategy must address the urgent and mounting challenges facing the health care workforce.
Click here to view the report.