Our Psychological Professions Workforce Strategy

The West Yorkshire Psychological Professions Workforce Strategy aims to identify and meet the challenges facing the psychological professions now and in the future, including the targets set in the NHS Five Year Forward View and the NHS Long Term Plan.

You can find out more about the range of careers in the Psychological Professions by checking the Psychological Professions Network Career Map.

Health Education England has launched two new resources to support systems with their workforce redesign efforts

The Roles Explorer is a collection of resources to support those responsible for planning and delivering workforce redesign to introduce new roles, or innovative adaptations to existing roles already being deployed within a service or system. It provides information on the capabilities, training requirements and career frameworks for different roles, enabling workforce planners to choose the best fit for their service model. It also contains a wealth of resources to support the introduction of new roles, including best practice planning methods and case studies which illustrate how roles are being deployed across different system priorities. Initially including information on roles within Primary Care and Mental Health, the tool will be expanded to incorporate all system priorities over the course of 2021-22.

The MDT Toolkit provides a comprehensive guide on building and developing effective multidisciplinary teams across a broad range of professional groups and system structures. It is designed to be relevant in any setting, to any objective, to progress a ‘one workforce’ approach: a workforce drawn from a range of health and social care disciplines, working seamlessly as a productive, multi-functional team across clinical pathways, for the benefit of patients/service users.

These are just two of the assets provided by the national Workforce Transformation Team. Find out more on the HEE website.