The Pledges
Pledge One - Grow our Own
Engage with schools and colleges to offer Work Experience to students:
Supporting the development of employability skills and promoting the values and behaviours expected within the Health and Social Care Sector. These placements can be for 1 week, and up to 13 weeks.
Structured Voluntary Work Placements:
Host a placement for an adult career switcher wishing to gain skills and knowledge within their chosen career pathway, with a view to supporting them to gain employment within the Health and Social Care Sector. Placements can be for up to 13 weeks.
Offer work experience placements to University students:
Host industry placements for university students through our partner Universities. These placements are structured around courses, and can also involve a year in the workplace.
Pledge Two - Recruitment
Employ people new to Health and Social Care, returners to the sector and career switchers:
Pledge partners will support you to recruit the right values and behaviours to your roles.
Recruit an Apprentice:
Apprenticeships are for people of all ages, and diversities. Pledge partners will help you secure funding and source quality training providers for the qualifications alongside the workplace learning, as well as help with recruitment from a large pool of motivated applicants.
Employ a graduate:
A fixed term paid employment programme to enhance the graduate’s work-based knowledge and skills, while also enabling them to work on a specific project to benefit your business. The Pledge Partner will help you identify projects within your business.
Pledge Three - Investing in your Workforce
Invest in upskilling your workforce:
Access funded/part-funded courses for your staff including apprenticeships, and signposting for grants and other government-based initiatives. Benefit from the Workforce Development Fund, receive offers and discounts from Skills for Care, store and access key information about your workforce including training and qualifications data; Benchmark your businesses performance and provide intelligence to decision makers.
Become a ‘Disability Confident’ employer:
Disability Confident organisations play a leading role in changing attitudes for the better. By changing behaviour and cultures in your own diverse workforce, network and community, you will reap the benefits of inclusive recruitment practice.
Workforce Health and Wellbeing:
Access funded health and wellbeing courses including Talking Therapies, and signposting to business accredited courses locally. Work in partnership with the local authorities Workplace Health & Wellbeing awards scheme & online health & wellbeing training platform ‘The Wellbeing Academy’.
This approach is to enhance the wider adult social care workforce, to enable staff, businesses, community settings and volunteers to work with individuals in a way that helps people & professionals to help themselves. Which will further support access to other initiatives to further retain and recruit a healthy and well workforce.
Pledge Four - Inspire the future Workforce
Give an hour:
Utilise your employer skills and knowledge to volunteer an hour, inspiring young people in schools, colleges and the local community to consider a career within the Health and Social Care sector.
Mentoring students at local college/university:
Mentoring is a great way to invest in young people locally to ensure they stay on their pathway into Health and Social Care roles. Support is given by our Pledge Partners on how to mentor a young person or career switcher through their journey.
Participate in Health and Social Care recruitment/careers events:
Many events take place for people across North East Lincolnshire from careers events for young people, to events for older workers, people with disabilities, and career switchers. Sign up for this pledge to be invited to events to enhance your workforce, recruit new employees, and to be part of a local network of businesses with a common cause.