Workforce resources

Please follow the link to the Ingeus website. Ingeus delivers services to help people improve their employment, skills, health and wellbeing. They have an office based in Bury, please contact Elisabeth Bennett

This e learning resource has been designed by NHS England to promote ten public health tips that can be used by the adult social care workforce to maximise their public health impact in improving population health and reducing health inequalities.

Please register to complete the course.

This Better Hiring Toolkit provides simple guidance to support you to both obtain and provide effective references and conduct information. It has been compiled as a collaboration between the Better Hiring Institute, Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS), Skills for Care, Reed Screening, Dominic Headley & Associates (DHA), and VBA Consulting. At the heart of the Toolkit is the safety of the people who employers are entrusted to care for and the staff who carry out this role.

Please follow this link to register and use our Training Portal.  Within the portal you will be able to complete our Strengths Based Practice -awareness training module.

Here is a short guide we have prepared to support candidates prep for interviews in the social care sector.

This guide provides employers with good practice advice on how to make the employment experience inclusive, equitable and fulfilling for d/Deaf and disabled people and those with long-term health conditions. This document has been co-produced with a panel of d/Deaf and disabled people, Breakthrough UK – a disabled people’s user led organisation – and the Good Employment Charter team. Learn more

This framework will support you to understand what the standards for an inclusive workplace look like across Greater Manchester’s health, social care and locality sectors. The project findings provide insight into career progression, staff retention, access to support, our approach to reasonable adjustments and the understanding of any barriers for disabled employment.

This toolkit focuses specifically on ethnicity and disability and provides live examples of practice taking place in Bury, Rochdale, Salford and Oldham, outlining opportunities alongside the live examples currently taking place in organisations. Learn more

In this resource, you will find a toolkit to support working carers.  It contains helpful guidance and top tips to ensure every working carer in your orgnisation recieves the best support possible.

The Greater Manchester Good Employment Charter is a voluntary membership and assessment scheme created to help deliver jobs with opportunities for development and progression. They have provided an implementation toolkit specifically tailored for Health & Social Care Employers. Learn more

Please follow this link to discover the access and support available in Bury to learn and increase digital skills. These are vital skills that could benefit your current employees.

The Greater Manchester Inclusive Recruitment Toolkit focuses specifically on ethnicity and disability and provides live examples of practice taking place in Bury, Rochdale, Salford and Oldham. Learn more

This toolkit can support you to make impactful organisational change.
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Interested in becoming a Supporter of the Charter? In order to become a recognised Supporter, please fill in the registration form using the link below. You are making a commitment to improving practice across all characteristics of the Charter, this is outlined in the Supporter Commitment. Our Membership Criteria are what Supporters then aspire to adhere to. It may be helpful to look at, while filling out your registration form, and see what evidence will be accepted or to establish areas for improvement. Learn more

UTS is working with the Bury, commissioned, adult social care providers to proactively encourage positive onboarding experiences.

Values-based recruitment is an evidence-based approach that enables employers to understand a candidate’s values, behaviours and attitudes, and assess whether they align with the values, culture and expectations of the workplace. Learn more

Bury’s own shared workforce initiative that gives Health and Social Care providers access to “ready to work” care and support workers who can fulfil the urgent demands of local, sector wide care provision

This toolkit and the wider Greater Manchester Wellbeing programme is a key delivery vehicle for the Workforce Wellbeing priority; to help provide the support and space for our people to maintain good health and wellbeing and make sure help is on hand when it’s needed. It is also a key enabler to supporting work in the other four priority areas:

• promoting parity and integration between services
• improving employment standards
• supporting organisations to recruit
• retain their workforce, and helping to tackle inequalities.

This toolkit will continue to be supported by the delivery of wellbeing sessions and the work of our Greater Manchester Wellbeing Champions network.

Please follow this link to access and discover a range of skills that could support your employees in work.