Social Care Faculty

High quality social care and support services are dependent upon a highly skilled and valued workforce, appropriately rewarded for their work and the vital impact that it has on people’s lives. Social care is a major employer, contributing £40.5 billion annually to the national economy, making it a key driving force for reform and transformation. 

Our Herefordshire & Worcestershire social care sector, its individual organisations and services are just as important as our more health centric sector. If we are to ensure true integrated care between health and social care, then we need to invest in recruiting, retaining, developing and empowering our social care workforce. We are proud to establish our ICS Social Care Faculty. It brings together care organisational leads to work together to determine the joint education, learning & development priorities, and we will deliver these.

We are just at the beginning of our journey, but we have already established increased investment in supporting with new ‘careers in care’ campaigns, targeted recruitment for care support workers, international recruitment, talent & leadership development access, as well as our emergent sub Care Academy for increased apprenticeships and widening participation.

As our Faculty develops, we will promote more updates and access to a full repository of information, resources, tools and development offers via the ICS Academy