Career pathways

Find out more about the career pathways for some of our most needed roles in Bradford District and Craven

Detailed through the tabs below are the routes in to and progression from Midwifery Services, Care Services, General Practice Nurses and Nurses in Care Settings. Find out what experience and qualifications you need to work in these roles, and how you can progress your career within these professions. Presented also are the exciting and varied range of roles you can step in to having worked in these areas (Associated Roles).

Listed below are some further roles within the health and social care sector that you might be interested in, as described by our own people in Bradford District and Craven.

Getting work experience

OWH – Career Route

Specialty training pathways

OWH – Career Levels – Claire Murphy

Why I chose to study medicine

OWH – Career pathways – Airedale

Why you should study medicine

OWH – Training – Karl Mainprize

Introduction to the Careers and Technical Education Programme

Bradford District’s Careers and Technical Education programme is an innovative way of providing education for young people. This approach blends work related skills and experiences, with clearer pathways into employment and higher education.

The programme provides young people with opportunities from their primary school years through to their post-secondary school years to understand occupations, careers and how the right technical and academic knowledge can support their education and career pathways. The programme aims to build a highly-skilled young workforce by better preparing young people for lifelong learning and stepping into employment.

The health and social care sector programme focuses on 10 pathways to help learners navigate their way to success.
These are:

Biotechnology Research & Development
Diagnostics Services
Health Informatics
Support Services
Therapeutic Services

Adult Health
Adult Social Care
Early Education
Childhood Health
Children’s social care

Why Get Involved in One Workforce Hub

This project is important to you because…

If you aren’t already working in the H&SC sector, we hope some of the stories, experiences and general information on this site will inspire you to share your talents with us in Bradford District and Craven. If you are already involved with the sector, we hope this site will support you in developing your skills, knowledge and capabilities, and widen your horizons of opportunity beyond just the organisation you currently work for. The Centre for Workforce Development is here for you, to encourage, support and guide you through a positive working experience in health and social care, but in Bradford District and Craven in particular.

It will bring health and social care organisations together, supported by our further and higher education establishments, to manage and deliver workforce development opportunities locally. We can also maximise the potential of national and regional level opportunities to benefit our local place.

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.”