Open Road Initiative

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Open Road Initiative

• Chris Jude Head of Widening Participation, NHSU
  
• Chrsitine.jude_at_nhsu.org.uk
• Emma Dickinson Open Road Co-ordinator, NHSU
• Emma.dickinson_at_nhsu.org.uk

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Aimhigher and NHSU

• Aimhigher Healthcare Strand
• An essential funding stream
• Department Health Widening Participation to
  health and social care funding
• NSHU
• Working closely with 8 out of the 9 regions
• Brokerage between health and education
• Networking

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Health and social care and Widening Participation

• Large and complex workforce over 2 million
• Growth in the workforce of about 1 per annum
• Predominantly female make up
• Major supply problems and skill shortages
• A Health Sector Workforce Market Assessment 2003
  Skills For Health
• Personal care workforce in SW to increase by
  65000 (the largest growth of all sectors)
• Also the need to replace 80000 of the current
  personal care workforce
• Total requirement of 145000 people to fill jobs
  by 2012
• Working Futures Regional Reports 2003-04
  Sector Skills Development Agency

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Perceptions of health and social care

• Young people do not consider health and social
  care as a relevant career for them
• The are turned off at an early age
• Only doctors and nurses
• Negative portrayals by the media and family
  perceptions

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Open Road - Aims

• to encourage young people to see the NHS and
  wider health and social care sector as a career
  of choice
• Raise aspirations and achievement
• to engage communities that have traditionally
  been difficult for the NHS and social care to
  reach
• to increase the diversity of the health and
  social care workforce
• Health promotion and healthy living

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Open Road - model

• 9 projects one in each region
• Curriculum development relating work settings
  and activities to the curriculum
• Enhanced information, advice and guidance in
  health and social care
• Mentoring and coaching
• Work place / based learning, shadowing,
  ambassadors

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Health Centre Project Nottingham City PCT

• 1 day per week at a health centre for 12 weeks
• working toward 3 OCN Units, office skills,
  telephone skills and working as a team
• Health and social care GCSE students

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Staffordshire Healthcare Partnership

• One week work based learning within a health and
  social care setting
• Students interested in health and social care are
  given the opportunity to experience various
  settings across the Trust
• Mapped and linked to employability and enterprise
  skills
• LSDA are funding a pilot sites across the West
  Midlands with a view to funding and developing
  the support materials and teacher development

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Islington DfES 14-19 Pathfinder

• Curriculum development
• Career pathways
• The learning model

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What next?

• The National Directorate for Widening
  Participation
• The NHS Employers Confederation
• Skills for Health