Our Health and Care Workforce Strategy: Useful workshop tips guide
The purpose of this pack? This guide shares some useful tips to keep in mind when hosting your consultation workshop. We recommend that: 1. You read this guide and consider the tips prior to hosting your session. 2. Keep a copy available nearby (either on your computer, or on paper) to refer to during the workshop, if you need.
Before opening your structured brainstorm session Ask your participants to complete participant questionnaire Ensure your participants have got pens and post-its When opening the session Present the HEE strategy summary Share how people across the country are feeding back Share how your session will run Share what you will do with the insight you capture today
Introduce Principle 1 Attracting and securing staff Ask what measures are needed to secure the staff the system needs for the future; and how can actions already under way be made more effective? To prompt conversation, suggest we might explore the following: Are there fresh ideas for attracting more people to work in the NHS, either as new recruits or returners? What scope is there to extend workforce flexibility using ideas such as credentialing, transferable qualifications, scope of practice and others? We can think shorter term or longer term We might want to capture what can be done locally and regionally but as this is a national strategy, the key question is what must be done nationally to support local and regional efforts?
Introduce Principle 2 Developing our people Ask how can we ensure the system more effectively trains, educates and invests in the new and current workforce? To prompt conversation, suggest we might explore the following: Are there any specific areas of curricula change or new techniques such as gamification or new cross cutting subjects like leadership, public health or quality improvement science that should be taught to all clinicians? How does the system ensure it spends what is needed on individual CPD and gets the most effective outcomes from it? We can think shorter term or longer term We might want to capture what can be done locally and regionally but as this is a national strategy, the key question is what must be done nationally to support local and regional efforts?
Introduce Principle 3 Developing career paths Ask what more can be done to ensure all staff, starting from the lowest paid, see a valid and attractive career in the NHS, with identifiable paths and multiple points of entry and choice? To prompt conversation, suggest we might explore the following: What more can be done to create careers not jobs for all staff, regardless of qualifications, entry level and current skills? What reforms are required to medical education and training to deliver the doctors the system needs in the future but also supports the needs of the system now? We can think shorter term or longer term We might want to capture what can be done locally and regionally but as this is a national strategy, the key question is what must be done nationally to support local and regional efforts?
Introduce Principle 4 Meeting the needs/aspirations of all communities Ask how can we better ensure the health system meets the needs and aspirations of all communities in England? To prompt conversation, suggest we might explore the following: What more can be done to attract staff from non-traditional backgrounds, including where we train and how we train? How we better support carers, self carers and volunteers? We can think shorter term or longer term We might want to capture what can be done locally and regionally but as this is a national strategy, the key question is what must be done nationally to support local and regional efforts?
Introduce Principle 5 Being a modern, model employer Ask what does being a modern, model employer mean to you and how can we ensure the NHS meets those ambitions? To prompt conversation, suggest we might explore the following: What would make it more attractive to work or stay in the NHS as you progress through different careers stages? What should the system do to ensure it is flexible and adaptable to new ways of working and differing expectations of generations? We can think shorter term or longer term We might want to capture what can be done locally and regionally but as this is a national strategy, the key question is what must be done nationally to support local and regional efforts?
Introduce Principle 6 Our people making the greatest difference Ask do you have any comments on how we can ensure that our NHS staff make the greatest possible difference to delivering excellent care for people in England? To prompt conversation, suggest we might explore the following: What opportunities are there for making a difference through skill mix changes, staff working flexibly across traditional boundaries, and enabling staff to work at the top of their professional competence? What more can be done to deploy staff effectively and reduce further the use of agency staff? What more should we do to help staff focus on the health and wellbeing of patients and their families? What are the most productive other areas to explore around management and leadership, technology and infrastructure? Again, we can think shorter term or longer term and we need to consider what must be done nationally to support local and regional efforts?
Explore do we have the right principles for better workforce planning? This subject/poster is essentially their to capture other ideas. As a facilitator ask are the six principles we ve discussed, the right principles - will they lead to best practice and better alignment of financial, policy, and service planning in the future? To prompt conversation, suggest we might explore the following: What more can be done to help staff work across organisations and sectors more easily? What data do we need to ensure we can plan effectively, and how do we align across workforce, finance and service planning? For what sort of measures / plans / proposals should the things like Workforce Impact Assessment be used? Again, we can think shorter term or longer term and we need to consider what must be done nationally to support local and regional efforts? NB. So far we ve found all the ideas we ve captured fit nicely into the six broad principles; the strategy will embrace new principles if they consistently emerge.
Introduce Poster or Flipchart 8 Policy options for adult social care workforce? Explain this poster is essentially their to capture policy options that could most effectively address the current and future challenges for the adult social care workforce. As a facilitator use this a repository during your session for social care policy ideas and explain that the Department of Health and Social Care are running a parallel consultation regarding social care.
Generating insights from loads of post-it notes You can ask your participants to cluster their ideas around themes (i.e., common concepts) and to write a narrative or summary for each theme. Ask them to: give their theme a title, and share a summary that HEE can act upon (i.e., a short sentence is not much use, we want to get actionable, constructive or challenging insight). If you have a small group, you may find it easier to take on this task yourself. You can: Start the theming and narrative writing in the workshop session; complete process after the workshop, too, as this will give you time to reflect and get into more detail. Giving each theme or core insight a title and decent overview or description will help you when submitting this data to the online workshop. Here s an example of an idea that was submitted in early February. An example idea submitted from a workshop in London
Sharing your workshop results If you use process 1 capturing and sharing insight, digitally, your workshop participants will share their insights directly and we ll handle the rest. If you use process 2, a structured brainstorm to capture and share insight, then we ask you to: a) write to hee-consultation@clevertogether.com to let us know you re hosting a workshop we ll send you a participant survey form and details on how to share your workshop insights; b) email us the data captured in your registration forms so you can let us how many people attended your workshop and their demographics; and c) log-in to the online workshop (using the details we ll share) so you can post your participants insights - if you spot very similar ideas to yours on the platform already, we suggest you hit the like button and add you idea/insight as a comment.
What else can you do to help? Encourage people to host their own workshops Signpost people join the online workshop It s all on the consultation portal https://consultation.hee.nhs.uk/