Business Case for Supporting Partnership with The Prince's Trust: Addressing Workforce Challenges and Building a Diverse Future
The business case highlights the key challenges faced by the NHS workforce, including vacancies, demographic trends, and youth unemployment, emphasizing the need for a partnership with The Prince's Trust. By engaging with disadvantaged young people, the organization can shape a more diverse and skilled workforce, promote career pathways, and contribute to social responsibility. Benefits of employing young people range from talent development to cost-effectiveness, with opportunities to grow the future workforce and tap into unique talents. The board is encouraged to leverage The Prince's Trust support to enhance recruitment diversity, offer training programs, and create pathways into the service for young individuals.
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Business case for supporting a partnership with The Prince s Trust Briefing for board members Insert Presenter(s)
Key challenges for the NHS workforce Over 124,000 vacancies across all staff groups (December 2022) 6% of the NHS workforce is under 25, 48% is over 45 24% of NHS staff are from a black and minority ethnic (BME) background (March 2022) 20% of agenda for change staff (band 2-4) are male Youth unemployment latest figures Unemployment rate for young people (16-24 years) is 10.8% (November January 2023) Estimated 299,000 young people in the UK aged 18-24 years who were not in education, employment or training (NEET) and unemployed (February 2023) Insert key information relating to your organisation's workforce. (see notes) 2 Business case for supporting a partnership with The Prince s Trust
The national landscape Growing for the future The NHS People Plan contains a commitment to grow the workforce for the future. It sets out practical actions for employers to: Ensure recruitment reflects the diversity of their community. Increase recruitment to roles such as clinical support workers and promote potential career pathways. Offer more apprenticeships, ranging from entry-level jobs through to senior clinical, scientific and managerial roles. The Prince s Trust can help us to recruit a diverse workforce and develop a pipeline of motivated, skilled, local young people into entry-level roles and apprenticeships in our organisation. 3 Business case for supporting a partnership with The Prince s Trust
Benefits of employing young people 1. Shape the future workforce Grow our own talent Transfer essential skills and knowledge 2. Recruit a more diverse workforce Trust reputation Recruitment and retention Representative of the community 3. Corporate social responsibility Support young people s health and wellbeing Anchor institution 4 Business case for supporting a partnership with The Prince s Trust
Benefits of employing young people 4. Cost effectiveness Funded pre-employment programmes Apprenticeships Reduced agency spend Long-term investment 5. Unique talent Future workforce Flexible and adaptable Promote career options 5 Business case for supporting a partnership with The Prince s Trust
What can the board do? Consider how we promote the range of entry-level jobs and careers in the NHS to the community we serve. Offer pre-employment, training and development programmes. Use the support available from The Prince s Trust to connect with disadvantaged young people in our community. Open up routes into the service to attract young people who would not normally consider a career in the NHS. Use the apprenticeship levy to offer training and development opportunities to young people entering the workforce. Demonstrate a commitment to this agenda via senior level support in organisation-wide communications. 6 Business case for supporting a partnership with The Prince s Trust
Additional information 7 Business case for supporting a partnership with The Prince s Trust
Key messages for your senior leaders Audience Key message The COVID-19 pandemic increased the potential interest in working within health and social care. Working with local partners to create employment opportunities for those we serve will support our position as an anchor institution. Employing local young people enhances our reputation as an employer with strong community links and could help improve staff retention and loyalty. Chief executive Overreliance on the use of agency and other temporary workers to fill vacancies is costly. Long-term investment in pre-employment programmes and apprenticeships can lead to improved retention, increased productivity, and reduced sickness absence. Director of finance Entry-level roles and apprenticeships can support workforce strategies and address significant supply challenges, meeting skills gaps with new roles. Director can champion an organisation to becoming an anchor institution by helping young people to access entry-level roles and apprenticeships on behalf of several trusts. Opportunity to highlight variety of apprenticeships and career pathways available in the NHS. Director of workforce of organisation development The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of E&F as an essential NHS support service. Ageing workforce need to promote the wide range of roles and career pathways available in E&F. Local young people can access careers they may not have previously considered/been aware of and can develop a long-term career in health and social care. Director of estates and facilities (E&F) 8 Business case for supporting a partnership with The Prince s Trust
Key messages for your senior leaders Audience Key message Approximately 46,000 vacancies for nursing roles in England, leading to potential burnout, poor staff engagement and increased turnover of the nursing workforce. Ageing workforce pre-employment programmes can provide a sustainable long-term approach to addressing shortages. Variety of nursing career pathways available using the apprenticeship route. Director of nursing Local young people can help to fill workforce gaps and ultimately improve patient care. Inclusive recruitment will lead to a diverse workforce offering joined up, personalised care. Chief operating officer Apprenticeships to upskill the existing medical workforce will help to grow your own medical workforce and increase the access to quality care for patients. Medical director Developing robust workforce supply pipelines must be a board level priority. Helping local young people into work will improve the health and wellbeing of the community you serve and lead to better patient outcomes as the workforce mirrors the patient population. Chair and non-executive directors 9 Business case for supporting a partnership with The Prince s Trust
