The Role of the Wider Public Health Workforce Louisa Newman, Workforce Development Manager PHE

The Public Health Workforce careers that make up the PH landscape are extremely diverse core workforce is those working in roles with distinct functions within public health: - public health consultants - public health scientists - public health practitioners wider PH workforce; day-to-day role not focused on PH, but who are well placed to offer advice and support on health and wellbeing including: - GPs - teachers - police - leisure centre staff 2Presentation title - edit in Header and Footer

Core PH workforce Day –to-day role: - concerned with peoples’ lifestyle / environments - preventing illness - improving health & wellbeing 11 core PH roles (cwfi): 3Presentation title - edit in Header and Footer DsPH PH academics PH Scientists PH Consultants KITs Health Visitors School Nurses EH PH Practitioners PH Nurses PH Managers

Wider PH Workforce ‘well placed to offer advice on health & wellbeing’ Everyone else? Anyone else? How do we define the Wider PH Workforce? 2 mins activity: - who is /could be part of the WPHWF? - how wide does it go? 4Presentation title - edit in Header and Footer

Wider PH Workforce DH White Paper 2010: ‘public health is everyone’s business’ CfWI & RSPH report 2015 Understanding the WPHWF currently no widely agreed definition of the Wider PH Workforce ‘Any individual who is not a specialist or practitioner in public health, but has the opportunity or ability to positively impact health and wellbeing through their (paid or unpaid) work’ (CfWI and RSPH). widens the workforce to those not knowingly engaged in public health activity, as well as the unpaid and volunteer workforce. report estimates the total WPHWf as between 15 – 20 million! Media report - hairdressers 5Presentation title - edit in Header and Footer

Wider PH Workforce Role: supporting the delivery of public health messages, initiatives and programmes in a proactive way Brief Intervention (BI) Healthy Conversations Making Every Contact Count (MECC) Opportunity ask, have a conversation, signpost Not specialist medical / clinical advice Not ‘jumping’ on a stranger at a bus stop! Appropriate to place, role & relationship 6Presentation title - edit in Header and Footer “ so have you thought about losing weight by cutting back on fatty foods and walking more?”

Wider PH Workforce CfWI 3 occupation WPHWF categories: ACTIVE: engaged & involved in the PH agenda INTERESTED: some engagement, keen to do more NOT ENGAGED: potential for positive impact on health & wellbeing, not yet engaged with PH community 7Presentation title - edit in Header and Footer

Wider PH Workforce 10 mins exercise – groups of 3: Discuss the following: - Your own occupation - is it your role to support PH? ACTIVE / INTERESTED / NOT ENGAGED? - What PH do you do in your role – advice, MECC, BI? - Training to deliver PH – what? - Opportunities to include PH within your role - How will you do this / what will you need? 8Presentation title - edit in Header and Footer

Wider PH Workforce ACTIVE 9Presentation title - edit in Header and Footer *Childcare education *Childcare education Therapy profession Welfare *Housing *Health & Care Town *Food prep Health associate *AHPs *primary care *Sports fitness Architects Planners *Protection

Wider PH Workforce INTERESTED Bar / kitchen / hospitality services Media / The Arts / Librarians Cleaning services Secretarial and related occupations Public services / Managers and other associate professionals Production managers and directors Animal care & control Agricultural services Hairdressers / Plumbers Leisure & Travel 10Presentation title - edit in Header and Footer

Wider PH Workforce NOT ENGAGED Retail Sector Electrical Trades Customer Service Engineering Legal Vehicle Trade Natural / Social Sciences Administration Routine production operatives 11Presentation title - edit in Header and Footer

AGW PHN Survey – Wider PH Workforce Network is an online resource sharing information & knowledge, provides 4 free CPD events a year for the PH workforce in AGW AGW Public Health Network engagement with wider PH workforce online survey mid January – end February 2016 sent out via Local Authority DsPH offices targeted groups (ACTIVE – some INTERESTED) 12Presentation title - edit in Header and Footer

AGW PHN Survey Results Target groups: Local Authority including: - leisure centre staff - councillors - children’s centre staff - care home staff - transport & planning departments General Practice: - GPs - General Practice staff 301 responses 13Presentation title - edit in Header and Footer

Employing Organisations 14Presentation title - edit in Header and Footer Charitable Trusts CICs GP Surgeries

How much of your role is focussed on PH? 1 in 4 said they don’t do any PH as part of their role

Does your role require you to take PH CPD? 16

CPD How may hours of CPD are you required to do a year? - none to 75 - majority 30 – 50 Where do you typically access CPD? - through workplace - online - academic institutions What are the barriers to accessing CPD? - time / workload - travel / distance - finding relevant topics - cost / no budget 17Presentation title - edit in Header and Footer

MECC Have you heard of MECC? - 70% had not (210) Have you had any training on MECC? - < 5% had had MECC training (200) Have you had training on BI / Healthy Conversations? - 60% had received training on BI / HCs (201) Do you actively use BI / HCs / MECC in your role? - 60% do actively use as part of their role (201) 18Presentation title - edit in Header and Footer

Summary wider PH workforce potential for positive impact on health & wellbeing often see people face to face and develop trusted relationships potentially huge workforce – difficult to define – challenge to support role is about supporting PH agenda – taking opportunities to engage with people MECC / BI / Healthy Conversations many people may already do this as part of their role, but not see it as PH people who do not see PH as part of their role prevention - promotion 19Presentation title - edit in Header and Footer