Discover the essential role of nursing in adult social care. See insights into the vital role nurses play in providing care to the sector and the need to offer employers appropriate support.
We’re the leading source of workforce intelligence for adult social care in England and our work includes providing statistics and reports about the contribution of nurses to the sector. This can help employers and strategic bodies make informed decisions about the nursing workforce.
We also provide a range of resources from guidance, webinars, and networking groups to support employers and nurses as well as newsletters to keep up to date with news and events from the sector.
Upcoming events:
Nursing placement strategy event: Connecting locally to meet the recommendations of the strategy
Wednesday 10 September | 13:00 – 15:00 | Online
We’re hosting an online event to help link local stakeholders and explore how together we can support social care to become a placement of choice for all student nurses and nursing associates. The event will support you in making connections with stakeholders in your region, including care providers, universities and colleges, and explore how together you can implement the recommendations of the nursing placement strategy and support social care become a placement of choice.
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Nursing placement strategy event: Embedding the strategy
Tuesday 11 November | 9:30 – 15:30 | University in the Midlands (exact venue TBC)
Join us to hear how the strategy is already being adopted and what else we can do to ensure its goal of seeing social care as a placement of choice for all student nurses and nursing associates becomes a reality. This event will explore the recommendations of the placement strategy in more depth and provide an opportunity to hear from education providers who are working to include social care within their curriculum and practice learning approaches.
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We Are Social Care Nursing
We Are Social Care Nurses main focus is to share and celebrate the exceptional work being done by nurses working in social care.
Registered nurses
Nursing is an ever-growing and innovative profession and nurses are working in multi-professional teams across health and care settings. Find out more about registered nurses.
Nursing associates
Providing care for people in health and social care settings. The role has been developed to bridge the skills gap between care assistants and registered nurses, find out more.
Pre-registration nursing
Explore ways to make the most of student nurse placements and develop a better understanding of the placements in social care settings.
Revalidation
Discover the three ways that you can return to practice. These are readmission, a return to practice course, and test of Competence (ToC).
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