The Health Sector in East Midlands employs approximately 150,000 people, the majority of which are females working in smaller organisations of 10 or fewer employees.
The Skills Academy for Health is funded by the Skills Academy for Health and the NHS East Midlands Strategic Health Authority, and benefits from additional funding from each Local Health Community.
We’ve been working in partnership with AimHigher to provide Continuing Professional Development (CPD) and recently ran a series of CPD Diploma Workshops which were a great success for both teachers and lecturers in the region.
Our recent Dyslexia Action Workshops were so positively received that we’ve been granted approval to continue identifying key areas for activity and funding in this area.
The Academy has also developed a ‘Health Box’ which seeks to collect information from employers in the sector and map it to the 14-19 Curriculum. This has been very well received and is being distributed to school and colleges to support delivery of the diploma.
A further meeting has taken place with the regional Academy representative from the Teaching Public Health Network to identify the use of the Level 2 Public Health Certificate for all frontline staff. Key areas of activity have been identified for Level 1 and Level 2 as part of a bigger initiative and work is ongoing to identify funding and sustainability options.
The Skills Academy is currently part of the Joint Investment Framework and the 'Test the NHS' steering group and will be hoping to identify a pilot group for delivery of the C&G 9297 to support the ‘Test the NHS’ and Skills for Life agenda in the region.
