Belinda LockSue ParkerLouise Netto

Health, Social Care and Education

Why

• To Develop a Flexible and Integrated Workforce for the Health and Social Care Sector within Somerset

Workforce – who are they

W yWhat do we have now ?• Values and attitudes• Age demographics• Skills and training • Experience & ambition• Opportunities• Retention and churn• Absence and morale

W yWhere are we going ?

• Private care/personal budgets• Integrated working – health,

housing and community 3rd sectors• ASC, CCG and Better Care?• Technology and arms length care• Insurance – the unspoken

commissioners of the future?

The challenges we face• Commissioning practice, in

transformation too• Barriers across the sector • Expectations of those using

services……idealism v maths• Demographics and no regard for

the job density rates• £’s…..too few for the aspirations