All in Care & health integration
I’m working on a Rayne Foundation funded project with NWADASS and SCIE to better understand the enablers that support social care workers to have a good experience at work and how in turn that supports attraction, recruitment and retention into adult social care. The lens we are focusing on is blended roles in Tameside, Greater Manchester. What stands out about Tameside’s success is their relationships first approach………..
When NWADASS invited me to work with them to capture learning about workforce integration across health and social care I immediately knew that I wanted to get into the people aspects of change. Where I’ve seen real change happen, at pace, is where people have been empowered, enabled and equipped to come together, get to know and understand each other better, share challenges and ideas and start to try something new. My interest was immediately sparked when I heard that several other councils had begun their journey towards blended roles at the same time as Tameside and yet Tameside had, when I began this work, been the only North West council to successfully implement. I wanted to get to the heart of what it was about Tameside’s approach that had made the biggest difference……click the pic to read more