Health and Wellbeing Board Work and Health 14 th November 2017 - - PDF document

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Health and Wellbeing Board Work and Health

14th November 2017

• Growth - Salford has experienced exceptional levels of growth over the last ten years

and 40,000 new jobs could be created in the city within the next 25 years

• GM Devolution – employment and skills is a key strand and the links with other priorities

such as health are recognised

• Unemployment - decrease in the number of residents in receipt of out of work benefits
• Skill levels have improved in the city over recent years, however
• Many residents are still facing major challenges to access, stay and progress in work
• Some face multiple barriers such as health, disability, skills, debt, child care and

housing

• Nearly 19,000 people in Salford (11.7% of the working age population) are claiming out
• f work benefits and a significant proportion (8.6%) are out of work due to health

reasons

• Recovery in the labour market is characterised by a growth in ‘flexible’ forms of

employment – part time, temporary and self employment

• Low paid work continues to be more of a feature in GM than elsewhere in the country
• An ageing workforce - over a third of the workforce will be aged 50 and over by 2020

Opportunities and Challenges

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Strategy and Partnership

• Salford Employment and Skills Strategy launched by the Skills and

Work Board in June 2017

• Sets out a collaborative approach to meeting the future skills and

employment needs of Salford residents

• Strategy contains three key strategic priorities:

1. Young people achieving and progressing in education and work 2. Adults connected to, and progressing in, employment and training 3. Employers creating quality and sustainable

• pportunities
• Recognises links to other strategies

including Salford Locality Plan and Tackling Poverty in Salford Strategy

Examples of work underway:

Salford Health Works:

• Integrated lifestyle / wellbeing and employability service

commenced delivery in April 2017.

• A flexible service that builds on experience and learning from previous

activity:

• Being Well Service – groups of clients with combined lifestyle risk

factors and struggling with work.

• Skills and Work provision – group of clients being supported to

get back into work, but struggling with long term condition / poor lifestyle.

• Referrals are from Primary Care and Salford Helping Families

Salford - a Living Wage City:

• Progress being made to have a Living Wage Health and Wellbeing

system in place by 2021 Influencing the GM work and health offer…..

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GM Working Well System

In Work Care & Support

Employees SMEs Increase productivity LCOs LEP/Chamb er

Work and Health

Employees SMEs Newly Unemployed Key Delivery Partners Return to work Regain work Longer term workless due to poor health or disability Find and sustain work Complex & enduring health conditions Improve employability and wellbeing JCP LCOs Others TBC LCOs JCP Others TBC Customers

Early Help

Outcomes Specialist provider JCP Integration Board LCO WW provider LCOs Integration Board JCP Services Channels Self-serve Telephony F2F

• Occ. Health

MSK / MH IAG Self-serve Telephony F2F IAG MSK / MH Wellbeing

• Occ. Health

F2F Telephony Self-serve Keyworker Supported Empl. Traineeships MSK / MH Keyworker IAG Work Experience MSK / MH F2F Telephony Self-serve F2F Telephon y Self- serve

• Occ. Health

Leisure Well-being IAG

GM: A whole population approach to work and health

GM Programme Objectives:

Deliver a joint programme across the GM Health & Social Care Partnership and the GM Combined Authority to achieve:

• 1. An effective early intervention system available to all GM residents

in work who become ill and risk falling out of the labour market, or are newly unemployed due to health issues – example: GM Working Well Early Help offer

• 2. Better support for the diverse range of people who are long-term

economically inactive to prepare for, find and keep work – example: GM Working Well Work and Health Programme

• 3. Development to enable GM employers to provide ‘good work’, and

for people to stay healthy and productive in work – example: GM Employers Charter

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08/11/17 4 Next Steps:

• Deliver the priorities of the Salford Employment and Skills Strategy,

in particular:

• provide support for adults, both in and out of work, to connect to

and progress in employment and training

• encourage employers in the city to create opportunities that are

high quality and sustainable with decent levels of pay and conditions for workers

• Ensure the City Council and strategic partners lead by example in

this agenda

• Continue to shape and influence the GM work and health ‘offer’ in
• rder to maximise the benefit for Salford residents

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