The ASC Workforce Strategy was launched in 2024, and outlines our ambitions for our workforce and actions to help us achieve our ambitions.

So far we have: 

• Developed and implemented an Adult Social Care Flexible Working Framework.
• Regularly reviewed our provision of rewards and recognition by service and ethnicity.
• Used our ASC communication channels to champion and promote work the wider organisation are doing to support staff with protected characteristics.
• Designed and implemented our SMT Insight and Experience Programme – an opportunity for Black, Asian and other Ethnic Minority managers to attend SMT for 2 months, receive mentoring, and attend action learning sets.
• Developed an ASC Welcome Session for all new starters including take home fact sheets summarising the session.
• Continued to promote the use of Wellbeing Passports across the service, seeking feedback from managers about how many are active.
• Commissioned and delivered supervision training for Team Managers.
• Joined the Social Care Workforce Race Equality Standards Programme for two years running, submitting workforce data and developing an action plan.
• Set up a specific ASC recruitment page on our main jobs website.
• Run two recruitment events for Social Workers and Occupational Therapists.

We are currently focussing on:

• Improving support for managers to use Camden’s performance management process effectively.
• Streamlining recruitment and clarifying timeframes, roles, responsibilities and expectations for hiring managers.
• Developing an annual ASC Learning and Development plan.
• Exploring options for conducting exit interviews. 
• Creating a career mapping document for some services, to demonstrate how careers can progress.