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Skills for Care guide launched for social care employers

Skills for Care has launched a practical guide to the Principles of Workforce Redesign to help adult social care employers manage the changes the sector is facing.

Jeremy Dunning
Wednesday 16 November 2011 13:44

Skills for Care has launched a practical guide to the Using the Principles of Workforce Redesign to help adult social care employers manage the changes the sector is facing.

The guide offers a series of practical steps to manage fundamental shifts in the services that organisations provide and to transform those services to meet current needs and expectations.

It includes practical solutions to involving the whole workforce in planning and decision-making.

Topics in the guide include responses to change and loss, ways to engage the whole workforce, understanding how adults learn, recognising the different skills and abilities of individuals, and how different parts of organisations are linked.

Chief executive Sharon Allen said: "In a time of huge change Skills for Care has published this flexible guide to offer employers of all sizes practical support to manage significant changes in service delivery."

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