All in workforce transformation

A huge opportunity to rethink care worker roles – what’s stopping us?  

Should care workers provide low level mental health support?  Be skilled in recognising the warning signs of suicide?  Administering insulin to diabetic people in the community?  Develop specialist knowledge and skills in caring for people with Alzheimer’s? The list goes on and the potential is enormous……….

This is what delivering change through a relational approach looks like in practice

Katie is leading a very grounded, relational approach to change working with homelessness commissioners from across Liverpool city region. I was struck by Katie’s honest, straightforward and real description of how she is affecting change.  She said some things that on the surface feel very simple and yet for those of us navigating change in complex public sector systems, we know they are anything but…….. 

Relationships First for Change that makes and Impact

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………..

The Stargazer and the Navigator: a new collaboration

You know that feeling when you work with someone and it just clicks……..before long you’ve created a shorthand, instinctively know that you “get” each other, share values and can get stuff done. That’s how my new collaboration with Helen Boyle began………