Delegated Healthcare Activity

The aim of the programme is to support the alignment and delivery of national, regional (NHSE) and local strategic approaches, specifically the SY ICP Bold Ambitions ‘Working Together Pathway’ (caring workforce) strategy for an integrated workforce.

We will have a connected, effective and efficient caring workforce. It will be robust to withstand ongoing challenges of the future by working alongside each other supporting and delivering care in line with central government directives, national priorities, regional strategies and local partner plans for workforce.

Objectives

To enable sustainable, resilient and integrated home (domiciliary) care – community based services by:

Identifying of training provision for DHA
Developing Governance for DHA
Re-engineer Financial Flow to enable community delivery of DHA
Identifying workforce redesign connection to the new enhanced care worker roles (DHSC – Care Career Pathway) to include DHA
Identifying and mitigating barriers in access to training/development for social care workforce
Test modelling and solutions – new training where applicable in Sheffield Pilot sites
Provide evaluation report to support scalability and replicability wider region and national policy
Support – Primary Care – Prevention agenda

Plan

Delivery of a structured project to identify opportunities for workforce redesign across home care services, with the capability to include Delegated Healthcare Activity with a view for inclusion in the newly developed L3/4 Apprenticeships (IFATE)

Utilise the QSIR tools for Project Activity – i.e Stakeholder Analysis, Fishbone (QSIR), Sustainability and Spread, PDSA Cycle – Pilots (Sheffield based)
Review requirement for new training over and above existing apprenticeships and programmes engaging with IFATE as appropriate
Testing of new approaches in terms of role development / training development / enablers to access to training (From April 25/27)
Full Evaluation to inform replicability and scalability across North East and Yorkshire and wider – national policy
Publish and cascade modelling and governance structures to support the Delegated Healthcare Activity Framework Delegated healthcare activities guiding principles November 2024

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