Support Worker Academy

Enhancing Support Worker careers across the Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Integrated Care System (ICS) in collaboration with Anglia Ruskin University presents a strategic opportunity to enhance healthcare delivery, improve clinical education, and address workforce shortages. In the face of growing demand for healthcare services and a shortage of skilled support workers, there is a compelling need to establish a Support Worker Academy across the ICS. This Academy, a collaborative initiative across healthcare employers, aims to address workforce shortages, enhance quality of care, and provide professional development opportunities for support workers. The academy will offer transferability of knowledge & skills across settings whilst pooling resources to streamline development and career pathways meeting the needs of our operational plans and the NHS Long Term Workforce Plan. 

The project aims to create a voice for support workers that is stronger together across professions and settings. Building on the current approach at an individual provider level to prepare our support workforce to deliver person centred care across settings meeting the needs of our population whilst building our domestic supply of workforce that is ready to entre development into professions needed to meet operational plans and the NHS Long Term Workforce Plan.