West Essex Workforce and Training Hub
What is the West Essex Workforce and Training Hub?
West Essex Workforce and Training Hubs are a new way of developing the workforce (particularly the community) in response to today’s health agenda.
- They form a networked arrangement of service and education providers within a specified geographical area
- Their purpose is to deliver a workforce to meet the health needs of the population it serves
- They connect employers across a locality with Health Education England and Higher Education Institutes
The West Essex Workforce and Training Hub has 5 main responsibilities:
- Workforce Planning
- Training and Education
- Growing your own staff
- Future sustainability
- Collaboration
Aims of the West Essex Workforce and Training Hub
- Provide a system-wide co-ordinated approach to delivering an integrated multi-professional workforce able to best meet the needs of the local population including anticipating future new models of care delivery
- Enable local leadership for workforce development, education and a new way of organising the management of learning in primary care
- Oversee and deliver key performance indicators agreed with HEE and provide local oversight of the STP workforce strategy
- Provide strong clinical leadership working with member practices, GP federations, HEE and key commissioning and provider partners to promote collaboration and drive local leadership in respect of:
- Increasing recruitment and retention
- Increasing training and supported learning capacity
- Increasing mentorship capacity and capability
- Developing inter-professional education
- Understanding the workforce profile to inform current and future planning
- Building strong links with local universities to influence curriculum development and education modules to meet emerging new models of care