Providing learning, development and workforce solutions to meet today’s challenges and tomorrow’s ambitions
NHS organisations are operating in an increasingly complex environment, balancing immediate workforce pressures with the need to plan for future service delivery, adapt to technological change and respond to evolving workforce needs.
Through our collaboration with NHS Employers, Skills for Health is providing practical resources, learning opportunities and workforce development solutions that help organisations strengthen workforce planning, build confidence in emerging technologies and enhance organisational resilience. Our expertise spans learning and development, workforce transformation, leadership, digital skills and organisational development.
Together, we are supporting NHS leaders to build workforce capability, address current challenges and create the skilled, resilient workforce needed for the future.
Explore three priority areas where targeted support can help your organisation strengthen workforce performance, support transformation and deliver long-term workforce sustainability.
Featured resources and learning opportunities
Six Steps Methodology to Integrated Workforce Planning®
The Six Steps Methodology gives healthcare organisations a proven, structured approach to workforce planning, helping you move from reactive decision-making to a more informed and sustainable approach to planning your workforce.
Six Steps helps you:
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Understand workforce demand
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Turn data into insight
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Identify workforce and skills gaps
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Plan for different scenarios
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Align workforce and service needs
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Build a practical workforce plan
Six Steps Open Programme
Ready to build your workforce plan?
The Six Steps Open Programme is a practical way to get started. Work through the methodology with our workforce planning experts, apply it to your own organisation and develop a workforce plan you can put into practice.
Join individually or with colleagues from your organisation and learn alongside peers from across the healthcare sector.
Our next cohort runs weekly, 2pm–4pm, from 5 November to 16 December.
How future-ready is your workforce plan?
Our free 2-minute assessment provides a snapshot of your workforce planning maturity, helping you understand your workforce risk profile and the potential implications for your organisation.
GenAI in Healthcare: Starting Safely eLearning
Generative AI is rapidly becoming part of working life in healthcare, with staff increasingly using tools such as ChatGPT and Copilot to reduce administrative pressure, improve productivity and support workforce efficiency.
Recent recommendations from the National Commission into the Regulation of AI in Healthcare reinforce the need to build workforce capability and AI literacy, alongside effective governance, to support the safe and responsible adoption of AI across healthcare.
This should be mandatory for all NHS staff to build their awareness of the risks and encourage safe, ethical adoption of AI.
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From GenAI awareness to safer decisions in practice
Using interactive scenarios and simulations, staff move beyond awareness of GenAI to making safer, more informed decisions about its use in real workplace situations, with practical guidance grounded in NHS policy and regulatory expectations.
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Build GenAI literacy
Give staff a shared understanding of how GenAI works, its opportunities and limitations, with practical training focused on tools already being used, including ChatGPT and Copilot. -
Reduce risk
Help staff recognise and respond to risks around data, inappropriate use and AI-generated outputs, supporting safer, more responsible use of GenAI. -
Support confident adoption
Equip staff with a simple framework to make informed decisions about when and how to use GenAI, supporting responsible innovation and the adoption of technologies shaping the future of healthcare.
Level 3 Award in Counter-Terrorism Protective Security and Preparedness
Skills for Health is working with Skills for Justice Training to deliver the Level 3 Award in Counter-Terrorism Protective Security and Preparedness, the only qualification endorsed by Counter-Terrorism Policing and developed by SfJ Awards in partnership with the National Counter-Terrorism Security Office (NaCTSO).
Healthcare settings face unique operational pressures, from high footfall and open access environments to complex estates and vulnerable populations. The qualification builds the capability to recognise threats and vulnerabilities and take proportionate action to protect people, services and infrastructure, strengthening organisational preparedness and resilience.
Build capability across your organisation
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Strengthen preparedness
Build the knowledge and capability to recognise security risks and vulnerabilities and support effective protective security planning. -
Build organisational resilience
Equip teams to take a coordinated, proportionate approach to protecting staff, patients, visitors, services and infrastructure. -
Support compliance and assurance
Build understanding of protective security responsibilities and support organisational preparedness for Martyn’s Law requirements.
Looking for training for your organisation?
For group and organisational bookings, delivery can be structured to reflect your healthcare environment, workforce roles and existing procedures, supporting consistent understanding across teams responsible for safety, security and incident response.
Direct delivery can be arranged at a time and location to suit your organisation. Alternatively, individuals and smaller groups can book onto one of our scheduled open cohorts.
Get in touch to discuss your requirements.
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