SUPPORT WORKFORCE

SKILLS FOR HEALTH AND COUNCIL OF DEANS OF HEALTH

In 2013 Skills for Health and the Council of Deans of Health commissioned AHS to undertake a project to report on the Higher Education Contribution to Education and Training for Healthcare Support Worker Roles. A copy of the report can be accessed via: http://www.councilofdeans.org.uk/Data/Sites/8/codh&sfhhecontributiontosupportworkereducationfinaljuly2013.pdf

SUPPORT WORKER LANDSCAPE
NORTH WEST LONDON

Health Education North West London funded this study as part of a larger project about the support workforce in North West London.

The aims of this study were to:

THE EFFECTIVENESS OF FOUNDATION DEGREES
A REPORT FOR HEALTH EDUCATION THAMES VALLEY

Health Education Thames Valley commissioned AHS to undertake this study into the effectiveness of Health Education Thames Valley’s (HETV) investment in foundation degrees. It sets out the current policy background to education and training for unregistered healthcare support workers in England, the approach to collecting the evidence as to how effective HETV’s investment is, the main findings from the interviews and the conclusions and recommendations for HETV to consider.

ALLIED HEALTH SERVICES SUPPORT WORKER POLICY LANDSCAPE - THE SWAP PROJECT

Health Education North Central and East London funded AHS to undertake a 12 month project (July 2015-June 2016) to develop a greater understanding of the way in which allied health services, based in North Central and East London, currently employ and deploy support workers.

There are a number of features to this project:

The report, annex and slide deck are included below:

SWAP Final Report

SWAP Annex

Slide Deck

MAPPING THE CURRENT AND POTENTIAL CONTRIBUTION OF THE ALLIED HEALTH PROFESSIONAL SUPPORT WORKERS TO PUBLIC HEALTH.

This work, funded by Public Health England, developed a snapshot of the current and potential contribution of AHP support workers to public health.

Linda Hindle's blog stated Over the past three years the allied health professionals (AHPs) have been increasing their focus on improving the public's health and have been recognised as a leading part of the wider public health workforce. However the focus this far has been on the registered AHPs and we have missed........ click here to read the full extract of Linda's blog

For a copy of the report or a single slide about the study please click on the links below:

Final Report of PHE Allied Health Support Worker study

AHSWs' contribution to public health slide

PHASE project - DEVELOPING THE ALLIED HEALTH SUPPORT WORKERS IN PUBLIC HEALTH

Health Education England North West London commissioned this Partnership in Innovation and Education to:

This project ran from 2016-2018.

SWAP II - DEVELOPING THE UNREGISTERED AHP SUPPORT ROLES

Health Education England North Central East London (HEE NCEL) funded Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health Trust (BEHMHT) to undertake a project to develop the unregistered allied health support workforce employed in BEHMHT. This project builds on the Allied Health Support Worker Policy Landscape project (SWAP), which was also funded by HEE NCEL. BEHMHT has invited Allied Health Solutions (AHS) to work with them on this project.

This 15-month project (January 2017-March 2018), aimed to develop and test a bespoke programme of study for the unregistered allied health support workforce, irrespective of whether they work in the acute and/or community setting.

PHASE - DEVELOPING ALLIED HEALTH SUPPORT WORKERS TO DELIVER PUBLIC HEALTH INTERVENTIONS ACROSS NORTH WEST LONDON