The Division of Well being and Social Care (DHSC) has printed a young to safe a accomplice organisation to ship initiatives to assist the digital abilities growth of the grownup social care (ASC) workforce.
The tender states that the objective is “to make sure that the workforce has the boldness and abilities to embrace expertise and undertake digital methods of working”. The organisation that wins the tender might be “answerable for main on discrete initiatives” to assist the workforce on this space.
DHSC’s tender discover, which will be seen in full right here, highlights that the organisation chosen might be required to “show expertise in main initiatives on ASC workforce digitisation and present stakeholder networks with the ASC workforce to allow co-production with the sector the place related”.
5 key initiatives are set out by the DHSC that the accomplice organisation might be concerned in:
Venture 1 – Digital Abilities Self-Evaluation device – to assist the ASC workforce to self-assess their present degree of digital abilities in opposition to the Digital Abilities Framework.Venture 2 – What Good Seems Like Self-Evaluation device – to develop a device that helps care suppliers to implement the What Good Seems Like steering for social care.Venture 3 – Awarding Organisation and Coaching Supplier direct assist – to assist AO and TP organisations to develop the boldness and functionality to ship digital abilities coaching and qualification in ASC.Venture 4 – Digitising Social Care communications and engagement assist – to assist with the implementation of the programme’s inside communications technique by means of working webinar occasions and weblog posts to assist the ASC sector of their digital journey.Venture 5 – Assist implementation of the Nationwide Digital Workforce Plan – to make sure the implementation of the plan is inclusive of the ASC workforce.
The contract was printed on 21 Might 2024 and is valued at £475,000. It is because of run for 9 months with an estimated supply date of 6 March 2025. The deadline to use is 6 June at 9am.