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Discover the benefits of adopting the Care Workforce Pathway for your organisation. Learn how it supports workforce planning, career progression, and staff retention in adult social care.

There is no right or wrong way to adopt the Care Workforce Pathway. From making changes to your job descriptions to restructuring, there are many great examples of how the pathway has helped organisations in different ways. 

Benefits for care providers

• Inform effective workforce planning: It provides a trusted benchmark for skills, knowledge and behaviours across roles, to give you an organisational view of the skills you have across your workforce and the ones you need to develop.
• Attract new workers: Using the Care Workforce Pathway will help you to talk about working in social care in a way which makes it more attractive to people thinking about entering the sector. It can motivate new recruits by giving a realistic picture of what working in the sector is like, and where a career in care can lead them.
• Guide your onboarding: You can use the skills, knowledge and behaviours outlined in the pathway to set expectations for new staff and set a plan of what skills need to be developed during this time.
• Find efficiencies in your learning and development offer: The Care Workforce Pathway can help you decide which training and qualifications are most relevant for staff across different roles, leading to more effective choices and using your training budget more effectively.
• People performance management: By knowing which of your staff are aligned with the role expectations in the pathway, you can spot any top performers who might be ready for the next challenge, or those who might need more support.
• Increase staff morale and retention: Staff report feeling motivated to continue with their current employer after using the pathway. It helps staff feel recognised and valued for the work they do, and helps them to see a future with their employer.

Hear how adopting the Care Workforce Pathway has helped others

The care exchange podcast

The 大象传媒 podcast series the care exchange celebrates the role of managers in social care.

We want colleagues to take ownership of their careers 

Listen to Nicola Airey and Justine Jones who talk to us about how useful they have found utilising the pathway within their organisation. 

Nicola, Head of Talent Development at the National Care Group, explains how the Pathway helps identify staff's career aspirations and development needs, leading to increased professional qualifications and career progression. Justine, Registered Manager at Oak House, shares her positive experience with staff engagement and development through one-to-one career conversations. 

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