About Us

Overview

We are a partnership of organisations working in health and social care across Bradford District and Craven. We are passionate about growing our health and social care workforce, and believe that doing this together will encourage our talent from the Bradford District and further afield to join and strengthen our teams.

The partnership is working together on a range of projects to showcase and promote careers, grow and strengthen placements and work experience opportunities, and make our recruitment practices inclusive and accessible.

We have created this website to better promote opportunities within the sector, and help people understand the range of roles along with how to access them. We also want to share our passion for health and social care careers with the hope that more people will want to join us in having meaningful and exciting careers.

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Human Resources Director – Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
The HRD is the chair of our Growing our Workforce Leadership Group, championing and shaping our initiatives amongst our partners in Bradford district and Craven, whilst connecting in with the work of our colleagues at the West Yorkshire Integrated Care

Tina Lafferty
Programme Director, Bradford Council – Employment & Skills Service
Tina is the deputy chair of our Growing our Workforce Leadership Group, and supports our Chair in delivering the strategic intent of for growing our health and social care workforce.

Kathryn Jones
Programme Lead, Bradford Council – Employment & Skills Service
Kathryn is responsible for overseeing the successful management and delivery of the Growing our Workforce initiative.

Nazrul Meah
Programme Manager, Bradford Council – Employment & Skills Service
Naz takes a lead on managing a number of Growing our Workforce projects across our three priorities of showcasing careers, placements & experience, and entry level recruitment.

Our Partners

Supporting this the One Workforce Hub will further showcase career options and provide routes in to employment.

The University of Bradford want to ensure they are able to support their students and provide them with the best possible tools to enter, flourish and succeed in their health and social care careers.

The One Workforce Hub aids Airedale NHS Foundation Trust in recruiting locally and support Bradford’s economy. As well as this, the One Workforce Hub will provide a range of tools for Our People to develop their skills and develop in their field of expertise.

The Bradford Care Association aim to promote the very best quality care in the Bradford District. The One Workforce Hub is here to help by supporting training, qualifications and learning for staff across the district.

Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust believes that we live “better lives, together”. The One Workforce Hub is here to promote this and therefore strives to recruit locally and support Bradford’s economy.

Everybody at BTHFT plays a part in making its values come alive in their everyday work – “we care, we value people, we are one team”. This resonates with the Workforce Hub ambition, enabling the workforce to grow.

As an organisation that supports “Great people, great place” we are eager to grow our local talent to strengthen through health and social care careers and the district’s economy.

The Primary Care Workforce & Training Hub will work with the One Workforce Hub to provide tools and information on routes into a career in primary care, and to support practices to identify opportunities and find the right people from our area to fulfil these roles.

The One Workforce Hub ambitions compliments Bradford College’s intent of “Your learning, your way”. The One workforce Hub allows its users to find and select a career path, training and qualifications that best suits them and their ambitions.

Keighley College aims to provide their students with the best tools to thrive in their chosen careers. The One Workforce Hub will allow them to support their students that wish to enter the health and social care sector.

Skills for Care support and empower social care employers, leaders and the wider workforce to ensure there are the right number of people in the workforce, with the right skills and behaviours to provide safe and quality care. The One Workforce Hub will support this by aiding in recruitment of care staff.

As a social care commissioner and provider the Council are keen supporters of stronger connections and career opportunities across health and social care. The One Workforce Hub will be a fantastic resource to support people from all our communities to contribute to the sector.

The Bradford District Assembly membership is involved at all levels from communities to strategic planning. The members aim to deliver local solutions and build personal relationships. One Workforce Hub will ensure that they can remain integrated with the workforce.

What Is the One Workforce Hub

The Centre for Workforce Development is in development, though we are already working towards some of our shared ambitions.

We are creating a new health and social care Centre for Workforce Development for Bradford District and Craven. We want to support and develop our workforce collectively so that everyone on their journey into or already within the sector benefits from every opportunity.

We therefore want to create a culture of working across organisations as a default, unless there is a good reason not to. We would like all workforce development activity to be commissioned, managed and delivered by Bradford District and Craven as a place, rather than as a range of individual organisations.

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The time has never been more right for us to consider radical workforce redesign. Workforce is becoming the biggest issue facing the NHS and social care in the next decade made even more apparent through the Covid19 pandemic. Nationally there are an estimated 10,000 vacancies in medical posts and 40,000 vacancies in nursing posts and 122,000 more social care staff are required. In Bradford District & Craven, 4,700 additional roles will be required by 2030.

Our ambitions for the Centre will be achieved through strategic workforce planning and redesign, preparing for new models of care, new roles, whilst maximising the use of technology. We will grow our future H&SC workforce (including volunteers and unpaid carers), improve leadership culture, develop our current and future workforce to have 21^st century skills and make our H&SC organisations the best places to work.”