Developing capability
In order to deliver public health services to the right people at the right time and in the best way to reduce health inequalities and improve and protect health, it is essential to plan an effective workforce for public health. This includes maximising the contribution of not only the professional public health workforce of specialists and practitioners but also those who can have an impact on health in their day to day work such as local authority urban planners, PCT chief executives, volunteers in the third sector.
How SPH can help
We help teams and organisations shape their public health contribution to meet their strategic goals including developing frameworks for establishing organisations as public health entities.
Our workforce development team helps individuals, teams and organisations review and assess their service pathways and advise on redesign and restructure of their workforce.
Using a range of tools and resources, we work with organisations to develop sound recruitment, retention and development plans.
What our service offers
We provide a service tailored to your specific needs, working at individual, team and Board/organisational level to:
- Understand strategic goals and how public health can contribute to their achievement.
- Develop frameworks for how health can be promoted and protected via organisational goals and processes.
- Develop coherent and costed strategies and plans for public health workforce development at regional and local levels.
- Work with organisations to raise awareness of public health across the whole workforce.
- Prioritise where specific skills and competence and development are required.
- Understand where relevant skills and knowledge might reside - in which organisations or teams within organisations.
- Analyse competency and knowledge gaps within specific roles and at different levels within a workforce, to identify areas for development aligned to the goals of your organisation.
- Develop organisational workforce plans structured to maximise and access key skills and knowledge, inform future recruitment where appropriate, or individual and team plans.
- Help develop personal and team development plans which will fill competency gaps, linked to the knowledge and skills framework (KSF) for those working in the NHS.
- Help individuals compile portfolios as evidence of development towards achieving required standards.
- Facilitate learning sets and run tailored on-site workshops to develop shared competence and knowledge.
- Evaluate and measure the outcome and impact of development programmes.
The value we bring
We have experience and expertise spanning ten years in working with organisations at the national, regional and local levels to help develop effective workforce plans for public health.
