Workforce Development

A National, Regional and Glasgow Context

Stuart Reid9th December 2005

What is Workforce Development?

Spot the difference?

What is Workforce Development?

“The wrong guy, in the wrong place, at the

wrong time..”

What is Workforce Development?

“The right people, with the right skills, in the right

place at the right time…”

Many Drivers = High Profile

• New Deal / EWTD• MMC• Pay modernisation: Agenda for Change, New

Consultant Contract and New GP Contract• Waiting Times• New ways of working (Role Development)• Workforce planning viewed as long term solution

to these challenges.

High Profile = SE Expects!

• National, Regional and NHS Board plans• Desire that these will predict numbers and be

costed.• Ideally “bottom-up” approach.• Accuracy will improve over time.

Demand

SupplyAction Plan

Tested for:

Affordability

Availability

Adaptability

Monitor

Service Planning

Current

Workforce

Workforce Demand Implications

Workforce Demographics & Supply Issues

The Future Workforce – Balancing Supply & Demand

National, Regional & Local Actions for achieving Future workforce

Recr & Retain

Edu & De

Service & Role Redesign

Implement

Approach

• Can be used whether we are looking at a particular staff group or a service

• Guides the workforce plan with each chapter of the plan reflecting a stage of the process

• Reflects a bottom up approach? • Need to pull together the outputs of the service/staff

group work to feed the overall Board workforce plan• Appendices or refer to more detailed plans

What already exists within Glasgow?

• Nursing and Midwifery Workforce Plan

• Various allied health professional plans

• Work underway within the MCNs

• Work being carried out as move towards ACADs

• Children’s Services Workforce Plan

• Waiting Times Submissions• Benefits Realisation Papers• Advanced Practice• Strategic Review of Imaging

Services• Strategic review of Laboratories• MMC Papers• Consultant 600 information• New Southern / Children’s Hospital

The Challenge?

“The challenge is to consolidate the work already undertaken with a view to improvements in depth

and accuracy of future plans.”

The challenge?

“Yippee-ki-yay.”