NHS Employers has launched a new guide to help employers in health connect across all parts of the system to deliver personal, person-centred care to their local populations now and in the future. The launch of the guide follows the formal introduction of Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) in July.
To help systems understand this new way of working, NHS Employers has worked in partnership with Skills for Care (SFC) and the Care and Health Improvement Programme, which is a collaboration between the Local Government Association (LGA) and Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) to produce a new guide that provides tips and insight to help systems consider what is needed to successfully integrate their workforce thinking.
This guide is aimed at ICS workforce leads, chief people officers, directors of adult social services (ASC), chief executives, human resource (HR) directors, elected members including ASC portfolio holders and chairs of health and wellbeing boards, and those who are responsible for integrated workforce thinking across health and social care.
The guide is designed to help and support organisations, regardless of what stage of the integration journey they have reached. It will help systems to:
• Understand what is meant by integrated thinking across systems and how it can support the development of integrated workforce plans
• Understand what data is helpful in informing a good integrated workforce plan
• Learn from examples and tips from ICSs that have had success with integrating across their systems
• Find external resources on integrated workforce planning.
Within the guide a number of ICSs share their good practice examples of integrating their workforce thinking. It also includes checklists and top tips across a number of categories, including Governance, Changing Cultures and Communications.
