2 new Skills for Health Finance Guides published • • • Updated East of England Funding Guide supplement now available • • • Note for your diary - The Upside of the Downturn workshops (details shortly) • • • Oaklands Surgery lead the way in Skills Pledge development • • • 14-19 Diploma conference report published • • • National Apprenticeship Service launched • • • Integrated Workforce Planning Report published • • • "ESOL – A New Approach" document published • • • East of England Mental Health and Learning and Employment virtual network launched • • • No systematic bias found in Agenda for Change • • • Business Link No-nonsense guide to funding for SMEs • • • East of England Health Ambassadors Service judged a success by trusts and schools • • • New service established for charity and not-for-profit jobs • • • NHS Careers boosts applications to the Health Service • • • NHS staff levels reach an all time high • • • Towards the Best Together - Update No 1 • • • Towards the Best together Implementation Plan • • • Coping with the stress of job loss • • • The Health Sector in the East of England and recession • • • Local Employment Partnerships • • • Tackling Worklessness : "How to" Guidance for local government • • • New Leadership and Management resources directory • • • Mary Seacole Development and Leadership Awards 2009 • • • The National Leadership Council for the NHS • • • Health Skills East consults on its 2009-10 work programme • • • DH Consultation on Stroke Specific Education Pathway • • • New Mental Health Strategy - "New Horizons" • • • Long term Neurological Conditions • • • "Achieving Excellent Workforce Management" • • • Competence in New Nursing roles, Skills and Advanced Practice • • • Competencies for recognising and responding to Acutely Ill Patients in Hospital • • • Prime Minister's Commission on the Future of Nursing and Midwifery • • • LSC Employers' Guide to Training Providers • • • 3rd Sector Qualifications Strategy • • • Managing demand in Train to Gain and 25+ apprenticeships • • • Review of NHS Student Bursaries ( following Darzi Review) • • • The East of England Regional Economic Strategy • • • New Skills for Life Tools and Qualifications • • • Britain's professions are becoming more socially exclusive • • • The Effect of Lifelong Learning on Intra-generational Social Mobility • • • Consultation on the Children's Workforce and Youth Professional Status • • • Social Work Taskforce • • • The Care Quality Commission extension of remit • • • 2008 Staff Survey results published • • • "Tackling Concerns Nationally"  March 2009 • • • Housing "Home Buy Direct" • • • Public Health - Healthy Universities report released • • • New research commissioned by Skills for Health • • •

Welcome to Health Skills East

WE ARE a voluntary partnership of over 30 major East of England funding and development organisations who are working together to support health employers and commissioners in the East of England.

OUR SERVICES are available to the NHS, independent and Voluntary Health Sector and can be found at www.healthskillseast.org.uk. Search this website for signposting to our partner organisations or scroll the subject tabs to find out about resources available under each topic. Alternatively contact our helpline info@healthskillseast.org.uk.

OUR 2009 - 10 PROGRAMME
Access our Health Skills East Work Programme for 2009 - 10. Health Skills East has just published its June 2009 progress report which incorporates feedback from stakeholders on the work programme and progress made to date in its implementation.

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WHAT'S NEW?

  • ● New Funding Guides now available With the launch of the new Skills for Health website, 2 new Funding Guides, one for Employers and one for Individuals, are now available. To access the documents, click Individual, Employer or go to the Skills for Health website at http://careersiag.skillsforhealth.org.uk. The East of England Funding Guide is now in the form of a supplement to these national guides and is available on the Health Skills East website – click here.

  • ● East of England Health Ambassador contract retenderedFollowing external evaluation of the Ambassador service which identified its overall success to date and key areas for development, the contract for the service has been retendered by Health Skills East and awarded to The Britten Partnership. For further information, see – Working with Schools and Colleges – and The Britten Partnership website - http://www.brittenpartnership.co.uk/.

  • ● Case studies. Following the call for case studies in the January 2009 edition of this bulletin, work is on-going in bring together useful resources and disemminating knowledge and experience from around the country. To access 2 new case studies from the East of England on
    • - Developing new competency based clinical AP roles within West Essex PCT and
    • - Development of and training in advance care planning records to improve patient care within a Hospice, click here

    If you want to share your experience, see the case study summary and full templates. Support is available to help you write it up – contact info@healthskillseast.org.uk

Showcase Conference Presentations

► The future workforce: engaging young people Different regional and local initiatives designed to engage young people in the health sector.

► Apprenticeships for young people and adults Current and future developments around Apprenticeship provision at a national and regional level.

► Widening your recruitment pool: employability partnerships National/regional initiatives seeking to find new sources of recruits for the health sector.

► Management and Leadership - addressing the bulge in the middle National overview of developments as well as showcase a major SWIFT project in Suffolk which aims to develop a Leadership and Management Academy based on University Campus Suffolk.

► Maximising the potential of your staff – Knowledge & Skills Framework (KSF), Union Learner Representatives (ULR) and Joint Investment Framework (JIF) Developing and upskilling staff with the support of JIF and Union Learning Representatives and KSF.

► Encouraging progression through information advice and guidance National and regional developments in IAG to view the MOVE DISCOVER tool.

► The Sector Qualification Strategy and the transition to the Qualifications and Credit Framework Sector Qualification Strategy and the Qualifications and Credit Framework.

► New Roles in Health and Care Examples of new roles and ways of working collected from across the UK.

► Competence Based Workforce Redesign Competence based workforce redesign and how it was applied across Noth Wales.

► Educational Redesign for the New World Competence based educational design to meet the demands of new ways of working.

► Workforce Planning – the 10 year view Resources that are available to help with the process of planning a future workforce.

► Productivity – survival in a competitive world Using training and innovation to achieve productivity.

► Engaging staff in Skills for Life support, highlighting benefits to the organisation and support available to managers.

► The Changing Face of Medicine The issues to be addressed as medicine adjusts to new demands.


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