The health and care sector’s collective ambition for greater integration and better care means that strategic workforce management is integral to ICSs delivering the vision for ‘one workforce’.
Our workforce resilience, planning and transformation service enables systems to implement a population and place-based workforce planning approach to improve the quality of care, as well as providing the organisational development required for system-wide collaboration and generating energy for change.
Our support includes:
- Integrated workforce planning - workforce profiling to provide transparency, future needs analysis to understand capability and capacity at a programme, pathway and place level
- Workforce strategy development – ensuring health systems have the required number of people, with the right skills and in the right locations to deliver their vision
- Attracting and retaining resource – including specialist recruitment for hard to fill roles
- Training, leadership and organisational development – upskilling workforces to meet present and future needs
- Cultural development – utilising the Oxford Value and Stewardship Programme to create a culture of value-based healthcare and stewardship that supports delivery of the triple aim duty
- System and organisational change management – supporting staff to adapt to new ways of working required to deliver transformation
- Digital inclusion and readiness – improving digital enablement and literacy to enhance the use of technology and data insights in achieving sustainability
- Workforce health and wellbeing – supporting staff recovery, health and wellbeing to aid integration and efficiency.
Our key strengths and expertise:
We combine extensive leadership development expertise with practical experience of what really works when it comes to workforce planning and transformation. We have worked with leaders across health and social care to develop the shared values, culture and behaviours required for true partnership working and system transformation.
As part of the NHS family, we work with a large number of health and care organisations across England. In addition to our in-house delivery, we also bring leading expertise from a range of specialist private sector partners.
Service benefits
Our workforce transformation, resilience and planning services will help you to:
- Visualise the whole system in one place, at one time
- enabling co-operative resourcing to improve pathways spanning multiple organisations - Ensure you have a correctly sized workforce, with the required skills and organised in the right way to deliver the best possible patient care
- Enhance workforce culture to deliver integration and
efficiencies - Promote staff recovery and support health and wellbeing
- Manage the transition of people across the system and support passporting
- Enable intelligence driven workforce decision making.
RELEVANT READING
Arden & GEM is already helping healthcare systems to deliver Workforce resilience, planning and transformation solutions. Find out more by accessing the resources below.
Arden & GEM secure place on the Transforming Organisations, Partnerships and Systems framework
We are pleased to announce that Arden & GEM has secured a place on the Transforming Organisations, Partnerships and Systems Framework.
Unlocking innovation: the role of user-led training in achieving change
Peter Glover MBE, Business Intelligence Training, Change and Adoption Lead at NHS Arden & GEM shares how insightful, inclusive training which encourages participation, explains context and provides clarity on anticipated benefits is key to a successful innovation process int his article for National health Executive.
Arden & GEM successfully secure place on the NHS SBS Consultancy and Advisory Services for Health framework
Arden & GEM is pleased to announce that we have successfully secured a place on nine out of ten lots included in the NHS Shared Business Services Consultancy and Advisory Services for Health framework.
Supporting the East Midlands Acute Provider Network development journey
A collaborative team from Arden & GEM and Carnall Farrar worked closely with nominated representatives from the the East Midlands Acute Provider Network to co-design and deliver a workshop programme with clear objectives and outputs.
Developing Joint Forward Plans: how ICBs can strengthen integrated planning
Alison Tonge, Executive Director of Strategy and Innovation at NHS Arden & GEM, considers how truly integrated planning can support systems to combine a coordinated strategic approach with integrated operational delivery in this blog for Integrated Care Journal.
Integrated planning support for 2024/25
Integrated planning support to recover core service delivery and maximise productivity.
Analytics Capability Development Programme culminates in hackathon
A third cohort of Arden & GEM Business Intelligence team members has successfully completed the Analytics Capability Development Programme.
Working together to maximise social value in healthcare
Colleagues from the NHS and wider public sector came together with private and voluntary sector participants at Arden & GEM’s recent ‘Raising social value standards in healthcare’ webinar to share their experiences and learn more about the support available to achieve their social value ambitions.
Data-driven transformation of care for people with frailty and dementia wins HSJ Award 2023
Arden & GEM’s Business Intelligence team is delighted to be part of an HSJ Award-winning project, with Mid and South Essex Integrated Care System and Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust, in the Data-Driven Transformation category.
Using a hackathon to tackle complex NHS challenges in a day
In this latest blog for Healthcare Leader, Alison Tonge, Executive Director of Strategy and Innovation at NHS Arden & GEM, shares how a recent ‘innovation hackathon’ event brought together expert speakers, staff and customers, in facilitated multidisciplinary working groups to find and develop solutions to complex challenges facing the NHS.
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