Taking Steps - a guide to workforce planning for providers of adult social care

Product description

This workforce planning guide is for all adult social care employers, whatever the size of their workforce, and is applicable across the public, private and voluntary sectors. It focuses on the care and support provider as a business and as an employer. Where micro-businesses, including people directly employing their own care workers, or indeed larger enterprises, might benefit from other materials or tools, these are signposted. We have incorporated the 'Six Step Methodology to Integrated Workforce Planning' (Skills for Health 2008) to provide a common workforce planning methodology across health and social care. The guide shows that relationships with housing, employment, leisure and sport also need to be taken into consideration in workforce planning.

Past experience, current practice and future scenarios have also been used to assist employers and workers alike to take steps in preparing and developing people in the places they work.

Workforce planning is a logical and straightforward process designed to help you to get and keep the people who will 'put people first' in your business. To make this guide accessible for all, Skills for Care has priced this publication merely to cover its costs, as well as making it freely downloadable on the web. We really hope you find this guide useful and we urge you to think about how you can apply the approaches it sets out.

Inside this book

View the e-version of this toolkit on the Workforce planning guide webpage.

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To purchase a hard copy of this book please click on the button below to go to the Skills for Care bookshop at the Social Care Association, or call their order line on 0870 770 2469.  

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