The UK Health & Social Care Workforce Event 2025: Recruitment, Retention and Wellbeing
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Overview
Agenda
Online Registration
Chair’s Opening Remarks
Keynote: Updates from the NHS Long Term Workforce Plan: Retaining Staff in Healthcare
- Updates on national approaches to recruiting, training and retaining staff across the healthcare sector
- Strategies for implementing a positive, supportive and compassionate work culture to boost staff retention
- Advice for line managers on prioritising workplace experience and wellbeing among healthcare staff
- Frameworks on inclusivity and emotional wellbeing: setting out a clear direction for improving how people are managed in healthcare trusts
Keynote: Developing Staff Wellbeing Support Systems
- Strategies for providing support to under-represented health care workers
- Guidance on providing psychological and financial support to health care workers
- Outlining the benefits of providing wellbeing support systems for the
Julie Child, Chief Executive Officer, Healthcare Workers Foundation (CONFIRMED)
Key Supporter Session
Questions and Answers
Comfort Break
Case study: Optimising Workforce Planning Through Discrepancy Resolution and Comprehensive Project Implementation
- Ensuring proactive software transition to address and identify all discrepancies between demand and capacity to avoid service disruptions
- Utilising independent external evaluations such as independent reviews to gain objective and comprehensive insights into workforce dynamics and planning needs
- Implementing strategic planning and costing through evaluation findings, including cost analyses to facilitate the adoption of strategic recommendations
- Implementing a well-defined project plan with specific milestones, identified risks, and clear deliverables to guide the evaluation and implementation of new processes
Case study: Preparing Healthcare Students and New Recruits for a Successful and Fulfilling Career
- Tools and resources for equipping newly qualified staff with the necessary skills for successful integration and retention
- Outlining the benefits of partnership working to implement robust well-being plans that lead to increased longevity in the healthcare industry
- Creating tailored well-being training to facilitate self management of mental health during employment
- Outlining strategies for line managers to ensure new staff feel supported and do not become overwhelmed
Lynn & Andrew Warren, Co-founders, Better:Gen (CONFIRMED)
Key Supporter Session: The Cost Of Caring – Overcoming Compassion Fatigue
- Understanding Compassion Fatigue
- Impact on employees
- Strategies for Prevention and Management
- Creating a Compassionate Environment
Lucy Carpenter, Compassionate Employers Lead, Hospice UK
Questions and Answers
Lunch Break
Case Study: Widening Opportunities for the Disadvantaged through Apprenticeships in the NHS
- Hear how working directly with deprived local schools helps build a pipeline of apprentices from these backgrounds
- Learn how the societal good goes beyond opportunity, with secondary affects such as lessening health inequality
- Understand how widening opportunities must go well beyond a careers fair, hear actionable strategies for the targeted engagement of students at each stage of their development
Annette Pollitt, Apprenticeship and Widening Participation Lead, Liverpool University Hospital Foundation Trust (CONFIRMED)
Case Study: Adopting a Comprehensive Approach to Better Support Internationally Recruited Colleagues
- Facilitating a pastoral buddy system to offer individualised support by matching internationally recruited staff with colleagues
- Tips for conducting feedback sessions with international colleagues to learn and embed their perspectives into support initiatives
- Ideas for signposting information about local amenities, services and cultural events to foster integration into the wider community
- Celebrating cultural diversity and contributions of internationally educated colleagues through inclusive workshops and events
Asmina Islam Chowdhury, Programme Development Manager: Race Equality, NHS Providers (CONFIRMED)
Questions and Answers
Breakout Networking: Partnership Working to Improve Overall Workplace Wellbeing Amongst Healthcare Professionals
This session will provide you with the opportunity to discuss the main challenges you face in creating a more inclusive and dynamic workforce while collaborating with other trusts. We encourage you to share strategies for addressing issues you encounter when initiating and creating wellbeing programmes within your trusts. Take this time to share your experiences and network with senior colleagues.
Comfort Break
Case Study: Approaches to establishing Fatigue Risk Management Strategies Among Healthcare Professionals
- Making healthcare staff aware of the link between fatigue, clinical performance and workplace wellbeing and of strategies to manage this
- Co-designing an action plan to manage fatigue among the workforce
- Examples of implementing successful changes to work practices to reduce staff fatigue in the workplace
Nancy Redfern, Consultant Anaesthetist, Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (CONFIRMED)
Case Study: Improving Staff Retention in Healthcare Through Data and Feedback-Driven Strategies
- Establishing a strategic retention and engagement group to reduce staff turnover within healthcare trusts
- Techniques and strategies for identifying patterns, themes and areas for future improvement
- Best practice advice on rolling out a trust talent management framework to better understand staff wants and needs
- Insights into collaborating with local teams to understand staff concerns and desired workplace improvements
Questions and Answers
Chair’s Closing Remarks
Speakers
Amy Gouldstone
People Wellbeing Lead
Sherwood Forest Hospital Foundation Trust
I have been in my People Wellbeing Lead role at Sherwood Forest Hospitals (SFH) since January 2022. I started my career as a Dietetic Assistant in Specialist Weight Management, Birmingham Heartlands Hospital back in 2011 after I had completed my degree in Nutrition, Health and Lifestyles. I have moved around the country taking on roles including delivering Weight Management and Stop Smoking services on the Wirral, working on Suicide and Self-harm prevention in Cheshire, delivering a Diabetes Prevention program across the East midlands, progressing the Smokefree and Alcohol Reduction agenda at SFH and Service Transformation in Flu and Mental Health in Nottingham and Nottinghamshire. I lead and support a number of Colleague Wellbeing and Welfare projects including Mental Health, Physical Health, Financial Wellbeing and Menopause. This includes training managers and colleagues as well as co-ordinating events and campaigns like the World Menopause Day Event. I am passionate about improving the working lives of colleagues across Health and Social Care. I am a Mum to one precious human being born in lockdown 2020. I love countryside walks, swimming and food.
Caroline Chipperfield
Director of Leadership Development and Delivery
NHS Leadership Academy
Director of Leadership Development and Delivery, NHS Leadership Academy
Caroline has over 30 years’ experience in both the private and public sectors in change management, people and organisational development. Her strong business background derives from operational roles, generalist human resource management experience and specialist development roles.
Emma Mendes da Costa
Workforce Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Lead
Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Emma Mendes da Costa (she/her) is the Workforce Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Lead at Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust – one of the top NHS Trusts in the country for disability inclusion – and founder and Chair of the Southern Disability Support Network, which joins together over 100 NHS disability staff network leads and EDI professionals across the south of England. She has a background in magazine journalism, and specialises in accessible communications development, staff network community-building, reasonable adjustments provision and active allyship. Emma has profound bilateral hearing loss and is a passionate advocate for using her lived experience in her work, speaking openly about her hearing loss, eating disorder recovery, anxiety, and IVF journey. She has written for a number of charities including Scope, RNID and the National Deaf Children’s Society, and is a Trustee for Flourish Mentors, an LGBTQIA+ inclusive mentoring charity for young women in Brighton and Hove.
Joe Smith
Senior Policy Adviser, Workforce, Training and Education
NHS England
Joseph Smith is Head of Policy and Strategy for the Workforce Training and Education Directorate in NHS England. He has worked on a number of large scale transformational strategies for the NHS, including the NHS People Plan and, most recently, the NHS Long Term Workforce Plan. Previous roles have spanned the breadth of health policy, both in NHS England and government. Joseph originally trained as a Pharmacy Technician and worked at the Maudsley Hospital in South London at the start of his career.
Testimonials
Attending the course has highlighted to me the options we in the NHS have to look to better retain our workforce and I have gained better insight into the services, people and resources available to do this today.
Incredibly interesting and thought-provoking with the content perfectly reflecting the challenging times were are navigating. There was lots to take away for me to improve recruitment and retention in our procurement service.
The event covered a wide range of topics and the speakers were knowledgeable and insightful.
An informative and insightful event. Interesting case studies prompted some good Q&A.
Why You Should Attend
- Learn from high-level keynote speakers: the latest guidance on improving the nursing workforce from industry leaders
- Gain insights into workforce trends: stay up to date on the most recent developments and emerging trends in the workforce, including EDI policies and international recruitment strategies
- Learn practical strategies for recruitment and retention: explore effective methods for embedding a robust recruitment and retention strategy
- Professional development: 8 hours of CPD points towards your yearly quota
- Engage in interactive networking opportunities: participate in interactive sessions and networking opportunities to discuss challenges and collaborate with peers.
GE Insights
Your conference package also includes access to GE Insights, our cross-sector learning resource of case study focused videos, articles, lived experiences and more. Gain unlimited access to our online platform when you purchase your conference ticket.
Who Should Attend
| Job Title Examples | Organisation Type Examples |
| Nurse | NHS Trusts |
| HR Director | Human Resources |
| Recruitment Manager | Workforce Recruitment |
| Senior Consultant | Community Care |
| OD Practitioner | Healthcare Services |
| Medical Director | Hospices |
| Ward Manager | Social Care Trusts |
| Head of Workforce | Ambulance Services |
Pricing Options
PRIVATE SECTOR
Your delegate place at this leading conference gives you: Full access to the conference; E-guide; Networking opportunities during the day; Access to presentations post conference; 8 CPD Points.
PUBLIC SECTOR
Your delegate place at this leading conference gives you: Full access to the conference; E-guide; Networking opportunities during the day; Access to presentations post conference; 8 CPD Points.
VOLUNTARY SECTOR
Your delegate place at this leading conference gives you: Full access to the conference; E-guide; Networking opportunities during the day; Access to presentations post conference; 8 CPD Points.
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Virtual vs F2F
Whilst F2F provide better options for networking, there are many distinct advantages of sponsoring our online conferences including:
- Wider geographical reach of delegates and a different audience who prefer online to f2f
- Lower sponsorship package costs
- No travel/accommodation
- Less time out of the office
- No stand materials required (lower costs)
- 1 of only 2 sponsors involved – less competition on the day
- Prime speaking slot in the morning of the conference including Q&A – less distractions and easier for delegates to hear/absorb information
- Receive all delegate data after the conference to follow-up directly with those who attend and don’t attend (small % but still key stakeholders)
- Ongoing exposure via OnDemand access (coming soon)
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