Sustainable Economic Growth

NHS Tayside is the single largest employer in Tayside with over 13,500 employees.

NHS Tayside, along with its partner organisations, strives to ensure continued sustainable economic growth for the local population.

NHS Tayside has established recruitment, retention, training and development policies that ensure service delivery by a locally based workforce, retaining key professional skills within local communities. A number of programmes also support our commitment as an inclusive employer, addressing inequality and promoting diversity.

Pre employment Short (6 week) courses

NHS Tayside continues to provide work experience opportunities for people experiencing barriers to work and positive destinations via multi agency partnerships including local Councils, local Colleges, Skills Development Scotland, the Department of Work and Pensions, the Prince’s Trust and representatives of the independent and voluntary sectors. Among the suite of programmes, pre employment courses are designed to provide access to relevant, identified and certificated training in the mandatory skills required in care delivery across sectors, underpinned by work placement opportunities and guaranteed interviews for entry level positions for participants who successfully complete specific programmes. Dates have been confirmed for funded courses across the region.

Projected numbers for 2018/19 for pre employment 6 week courses
  • Dundee Health Care Academy (45 students over the year) Partners - NHS Tayside, D&A College, DWP 
  • Angus Health & Social Care Academy (12 students over the year) Partners - NHS Tayside , D&A College, DWP, Angus Council, Gowrie Care
  • Perth & Kinross - Support services - name to be confirmed ( 12 students) Partners - NHS Tayside, Perth College: UHI, Perth and Kinross Council
  • Princes Trust – Dundee (12 students over the year) Partners- NHS Tayside , D&A College, DWP and the Princes Trust

Qualification based (32 week) courses

NHS Tayside works in partnership with Dundee and Angus College, Dundee City Council and Gowrie Care delivering courses allowing people to access SVQ qualifications in Health and Social Care and also in Business and Administration through college attendance and work experience over a period of 32 weeks.
 
All people successfully completing this programme have guaranteed interviews for appropriate positions within NHS Tayside for up to 6 months. These programmes are not directly targeted at young people and are open to all age groups. Participants receive bursary support.

Projected numbers for 2018/19 for qualification based 32 week courses are:
  • Health and Social Care SVQ2 (28 students) Partners - NHS Tayside , D&A College, DWP, Dundee City Council, Gowrie Care. This course is now in the College curriculum
  • Business and Administration SVQ2 (20 students) Partners - NHS Tayside , D&A College, Dundee University, PAMIS .This course is now in the College curriculum
  • Business and Administration HND (10 students)Partners - NHS Tayside , D&A College, Private provider. This course is now in the College curriculum

Employability Fund

NHS Tayside works with Barnardos and Rathbone to provide work experience placements of up to 13 weeks for young people up to 25 years of age. These young people may be Care Experienced but this information will not be divulged by the Training Provider.

Placements are provided across the organisation, with an emphasis on Estates and Support Services, with support also from Business and Administration Areas and increasingly with placements offered by ward assistants. These Young People will receive a financial contribution from the Training Provider which is derived from the Employability Fund administered by Skills Development Scotland.

Apprenticeship Framework

NHS Tayside continues to work towards establishing a robust framework for the ongoing apprenticeship programme.

Foundation Apprenticeships
There are presently discussions underway to develop Foundation Apprenticeships in Blood Science and involvement of the Allied Health Professions in this programme is being explored.

Modern Apprenticeships
The Modern Apprentice programme has included the following frameworks:-
Healthcare Scientist
Social Services and Healthcare
Electrical Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
Procurement
Payroll
Digital Application
Business Administration


At present, 19 Modern Apprentices are in place, with plans in place for care apprentices in Angus Health and Social Care.

Graduate Apprentices
At present, NHS Tayside employs 2 graduate apprentices in eHealth. The Graduate Frameworks are in development and presently focus on finance and science.

Fair Start Scotland/No One Left Behind

NHS Tayside is presently working with DWP, the Employment Unit and other identified training providers to support people with disabilities or other barriers to work into positive destinations through providing work experience opportunities.

Employability Services is also engaging with the Health and Work support pilot in Dundee to further align services with the aim of ensuring any required support for programme participants following successful completion of a programme. This will relate particularly to the Academy model.

Strategic Planning

NHS Tayside Board approved its high-level, whole system Clinical Services Strategy in 2015. This was intended to provide the overall direction for more detailed service specific strategies and the development of robust strategic workforce and financial plans. Transforming Tayside is currently being updated to provide a coherent overarching direction for healthcare in Tayside. It sets out our response to the national Clinical Strategy, the Health and Social Care Delivery Programme and the challenges posed to modern healthcare by Realistic Medicine. Coupled with the more detailed clinically-led work now underway to design new sustainable service models, it will provide clear, and credible choices for transforming the future of local healthcare for the people of Tayside.

In 2010 a health equity strategy, ’Communities in Control’ was agreed by NHS Tayside Health Board. Whilst universal healthcare is available to everyone in Tayside, health inequalities remain a predominant issue and therefore a key priority for continuing action. The Board continues to work with each of our three Integrated Joint Boards and is an active within the Community Planning Partnerships as we seek to address the determinants of health that are the fundamental causes of health inequalities. Prevention, including a focus on early year’s services, is key to addressing health inequalities in Tayside and is something the Board is prioritising.

Procurement

NHS Tayside complies with the Procurement Reform Act (Scotland) in order to support Economic Growth. The Procurement Reform Act is a significant element of the continuing Public Procurement Reform Programme. The Programme centres on the Scottish Model of Procurement, which puts procurement at the heart of Scotland’s economic recovery.

It sees procurement as an integral part of policy development and service delivery. It is a simple concept - business friendly and socially responsible. Looking at outcomes not outputs, it uses the power of public spend to deliver genuine public value beyond simply cost/quality in purchasing.

The Procurement Reform (Scotland) Act builds on the work achieved so far in the reform of public procurement in Scotland. It establishes the laws regarding sustainable public procurement, and allows us to maximise the economic benefit brought to Scotland from effective and efficient public procurement activity.
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