Role
Skills for Care work with employers to gather data on the social care workforce through the National Minimum Data Set for Social Care (NMDS-SC) that provides robust evidence to analyse emerging issues for the social care sector. NMDS-SC and other research projects are designed to create a well trained workforce capable of meeting the challenges the social care sector faces.
The Workforce Innovation programme and Workforce Development Strategy helps employers and their staff be innovative and flexible to capitalise on future business development opportunities.
Skills for Care have been a key partner in developing the new Qualifications and Credit Framework (QCF) as a simpler, more flexible way of recognising and rewarding skills and knowledge in the social care workforce. Once the QCF is introduced in 2010 the common induction standards and knowledge sets will be linked into the framework.
The Accolades awards reward social care employers who deliver outstanding services. Care Ambassadors visit schools, colleges and job fairs to promote social care as a positive career choice. The 'I Care...' materials and the career pathway e-tool help employers promote social care as a long-term career.
Skills for Care makes sure the voice of social care employers and their workers is heard at the Department of Health and at Westminster. Skills for Care work closely with Government departments, MPs and Peers to make sure that the development needs of the adult social care workforce is reflected in new policy initiatives.
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