Getting it right for our health and care workforce
The people who deliver our services are at the heart of health and care. That includes 250,000 people in paid roles and over 750,000 volunteers and unwaged carers.
Addressing our workforce challenges is the biggest barrier to improving the way we provide health and care in our communities. It is vital that we get it right for our workforce so we can provide the best possible care for the people of Greater Manchester.
Our new People and Culture Strategy for 2022-25 will set out Greater Manchester’s ambitions, aims and priorities for our health and care workforce. It will look at areas such as:
- How we attract more people to work in health and care – and help them develop
- How our people get better at working together to help integrate our services
- How we support our organisations to become better employers
- How we address the causes of staff sickness and help keep our workforce well
- How we make sure our workforce is representative of the people we serve – and that they are treated fairly
If you want to find out more or get involved, email gm.workforce@nhs.net.
In the meantime, there are lots of helpful resources to support our health and care workforce.
We want to ensure our people in social care feel recognised and valued for their important contribution to our system as part of our commitment to greater integration.
We want to develop a culture that promotes collaboration and empowers our people to work across organisational and geographical boundaries and move more easily between services.
We want to improve employment practices within health and care to help drive economic and social recovery and growth in our communities. To enable more people to work flexibly to support a good work/life balance.
Good employment consists of providing quality work that is inclusive, fairly compensated, offers security and flexibility and cultivates an environment where health and wellbeing thrives.
The Greater Manchester Good Employment Charter is a voluntary membership and assessment scheme which has been created to improve employment standards across all GM employers. It provides a framework for employers to demonstrate commitment to and delivery of good practice in all characteristics of good employment.
Have a look at the following guides on how to register as a Supporter and how to achieve approved Charter membership.
You can also join our community of practice network, which has been established across primary care, social care, NHS trusts and community organisations to support employers to learn about best practice and implementation from exemplar employers; reflect on existing workforce practice and policy; and develop a greater understanding of the Charter membership application process and benefits.
Please contact gm.workforce@nhs.net for more details
Once you have registered as a Supporter, you can access many of the GM Good Employment Engagement events which can be found on the events section of the Greater Manchester Good Employment Charter website
Further Resources:
We want to support better wellbeing cultures and provide everyone with access to good wellbeing support, regardless of their employer, to reduce sickness levels and improve overall wellbeing.
Good wellbeing is when we are able to be at our best, both at work and home.
The Greater Manchester Wellbeing Toolkit is an interactive toolkit to help support our health and care workforce to be at your best. We have refreshed this toolkit to reflect the things that you have told us matter to your wellbeing.
It provides advice on keeping well physically, practically and psychologically, as well top tips on how you can support those around you, and find help for yourself or someone you know when it’s needed.
Have a look at the latest version of the GM ICP Wellbeing Toolkit, launched in June 2023, and the supporting GM Wellbeing Engagement Quiz.
You can also join one of the wellbeing workshops programmed to support the Toolkit – all dates and details are found here
Further Resources:
We want to improve the experience of all of our diverse people, so they feel represented, heard and treated with respect. We want to develop effective, compassionate and inclusive leaders that are representative of our communities and support our people to be their best.
Greater Manchester Workforce Disability Equality Scheme (WDES)
The Foundations for Change framework provides the foundational building blocks of an inclusive system that uses the social model of disability as the standard for workplaces across Greater Manchester’s health, social care and locality sectors. The recommendations of this Framework will support an organisation’s WDES (Workforce Disability Equality Standard), employee wellbeing and the recruitment of disabled staff and staff with long-term health conditions. Within this report, you will find the Framework itself and a summary of the research which was used to co-produce the report with disabled staff, staff with long-term health conditions, and their managers. Further information can be gained by emailing admin@breakthrough-uk.co.uk.
We want to attract the best people to work in health and care from within our communities and further afield to grow a sustainable workforce. We want to develop career pathways across health and care by providing access to the best education and training, supporting progression and promotion from entry level to board level. We also want to improve how we plan for the future together in a truly integrated way.
Mental Health
The mental wellbeing team has created this document outlining free mental wellbeing and mental health training available for health and social care staff.
There are a number of online mental wellbeing training and resources you can use to understand more about supporting yourself and others.
This has been produced as a digital document with links to websites for more information and how to book onto training.
If you require this in an alternative format, please email gmhscp.digital@nhs.net.
Vision Board
If you would like to set yourself some goals for 2023, then have a look at this great Vision Board resource developed by Jessie Dhaliwal, a Paediatric nurse from the Treehouse Unit at Stockport NHS Foundation Trust, and Digital Fellow with the Shuri Network. This includes a handy guide to help you on your journey.
Greater Manchester Workforce Summit 2023
Evaluation Framework
This evaluation framework has been created by NHS Greater Manchester to support the evaluation of health and care projects or pieces of work. The framework includes guidance, training videos, and templates to help make the process as simple as possible.
Evaluation helps us understand the extent to which a project has done what it set out to do. It can help highlight benefits, celebrate success, create an opportunity for shared good practice, and demonstrate value for money. Evaluation can also help identify areas for improvement and support existing and future work.
- GMICP Project Evaluation Framework
- GMICP Logic Model Guidance
- GMICP Logic Model Template INTERACTIVE
- GMICP Project Evaluation Guidance
- GMICP Project Evaluation Template INTERACTIVE
- GM ICS Workforce Collaborative Project Evaluation Guide
Workforce Development Funding – End of Year Report
This end of year report provides an overview of 33 workforce projects delivered over the last year. These projects were funded by Health Education England’s Workforce Development fund and focussed on addressing important workforce challenges. This included a broad range of work across health and social care, such as getting more people working in social care, improving the experience of disabled colleagues and getting to grips with our workforce numbers so we can better plan what we need for the future.
Our Workforce Bitesize spring and summer programme started in March 2023:
To book onto one of the sessions lined up for the spring and summer programme, including those from our Workforce Summit, click here to book a session.
Workforce Summit 2023 – event brochure.
