This is a step by step e-learning guide to workforce planning for maternity services. It acts as an educational training tool and also a practical guide to sustainable and evidence based workforce planning. Login to access the programme.
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The Maternity Matters Workforce Planning e-learning resource will be useful to anyone working to plan maternity healthcare services. The programme takes the user through six clear steps to developing a workforce plan. It helps managers take into account the local demographic situation, impact on other services and provides practical hints, tips and case studies to work through plans.
How will the resource help me and my organisation?
Use of the guide to plan maternity services will help ensure that decisions made around design and recruitment of new staff and teams are sustainable, realistic and fully support the delivery of quality patient care, productivity and efficiency.
How do I use the resource?
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There is around an hour and a half of learning material within the programme which is broken into a series of six modules (one for each of the six steps to workforce planning). You can work through the guide as an educational resource at your own pace, or refer to it as a best practice guide when developing plans in the future. Each of the six steps has an audio commentary from expert speakers in the fields of workforce planning or maternity services.
The six steps are:
Defining the plan: lays the foundation for the plan by describing the context of the plan in your organisation
Visioning the future: looks at the forces which will act on your organisation that will affect your service and what you can and can't control
Assessing demand: assesses how your changing environment will affect future demand for your services and hence future staffing needs
Assessing supply: estimates the number and type of staff available now and in the future
Developing an action plan: looks at the gaps between your current and future requirements and current and future supply, and how you might bridge those gaps
Implementation and review: looks ahead to the factors that will ensure the success of the plan and keep it on track into the future.
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