All tagged Organisational change
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
Change is an ever-constant in public services and there are loads of examples of brilliant changes that people have made happen. So why aren’t these examples spreading and scaling? What stops us learning from what others have done? What do you want to know and how do you want to know about it so that you can draw on the experiences of other change agents to make change happen where you work? Clic the pic to read more ……..
In 2021, the Community Care job seekers survey found that flexible working is the most important benefit that social workers look for in a job and yet only 19% of social work jobs advertised in Community Care were offered with part time or flexible hours. Look closer and you’ll hear stories from social workers telling you that full time is always preferred by employers and that securing a social work job with a non-traditional working pattern is hard to come by. So how do we make flexible working work for social work - safely and in a way that balances the needs of service users with the needs of social workers. I’m looking for your help….Clic the pic to read more
With the sad and concerning news today that the social care workforce has reduced by 50,000 over the last year I’m revisiting my mini blog series focusing on what’s causing social care workforce challenges and how we address them. With the cost of living crisis, energy prices rocketing and mortgage rates rising we can’t afford to not talk about pay. Tackling social care workforce pressures is multi-faceted. There are lots of things we can do differently to help improve the current situation but if we don’t get pay right we won’t have the impact we are looking for. Decent pay is a fundamental foundation of a sustainable adult social care workforce. Click the pic to read more……
I believe creating learning cultures is one of the most important skills for leaders to have. I’m on a mission to help people understand what learning cultures look like, why it matters and how to create one. As part of my Lessons in Learning series I’m doing an experiment to see what I discover by capturing my learning every day for a month and how that helps leaders to think about creating cultures where people learn every day as part of doing what they do. I’m half way through so today I’m taking a step back to reflect on what I’ve discovered so far. Click the pic to find out more………
When I talk about creating a learning culture, it can feel a bit amorphous and hard to get hold of. The culture we work in can manifest itself in many ways - our behaviours, how we interact with one another, the mindsets that frame our thinking, as well as the physical things that are around us in our work environment. If we haven’t experienced working in a learning culture, how can we start to create one? I draw on my own experiences to paint a picture. Click on the pic for more…..
In this final blog of the series, I step back and reflect on the big themes that have emerged from diving into some of the reasons why adults social care is experiencing workforce pressures. Through the journey I’ve been on with Andrew Burridge, NWADASS, we’ve explored some of the immediate actions that are with any of our gift to take to improve recruitment practices as well as diving deeper to explore some of the system issues impacting on workforce recruitment and retention and what some of the longer term solutions could be. Click the pic to read more…..
The case for adopting a strengths based approach to delivering public services is compelling. Shifting from a deficit approach of what’s wrong to a compassionate, enabling approach that starts with what matters improves lives and increases our independence. It’s no wonder that public services are increasingly looking to adopt a strengths based approach as not only does it improve outcomes, it reduces demand for costly public services which after more than a decade of austerity feels like a no brainer. Click the pic to read more…….
