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NHS and social care employer organisations from across Derby and Derbyshire are coming together to host two recruitment events this summer. Attendees will be able to learn about a world of wonderful careers in the sector at the events - spanning hundreds of different roles, to suit all ages, experience and abilities. The events take place on Tuesday 28 June 2022 at Chesterfield College (Heartspace) and on Wednesday 29 June 2022 at Derby College Roundhouse. Both run from 10am to 4.30pm.

Adult health and social care open days are being hosted by Derbyshire County Council in May to promote the many great opportunities in social care. There are vacancies available in both residential and homecare settings within the Belper and Ripley areas, with the chance to chat with managers or have an on-the-day interview.

University Hospitals Derby and Burton (UHDB), in collaboration with Derby College Group (DCG), are offering a three-week pre-recruitment course with guaranteed support to get to interview on completion for a position with the hospital in an administration role. 

The health and care sector in Derby and Derbyshire is launching an awareness campaign to promote the range of careers available in the local NHS and social care. The campaign, called Your Caring Career, is being run by Joined Up Careers Derbyshire, which brings together health and care organisations across the city and county to support the current and future health and social care workforce.

Team Up Derbyshire are recruiting to a clinical lead role for the urgent community response programme. Team Up Derbyshire is an ambitious programme in Derby and Derbyshire that aims to create one team across health and social care who see all housebound patients in a neighbourhood.

Blue Mountain Homes, in collaboration with Derby College Group, are offering a three-day pre-recruitment course with a guaranteed interview on completion for a Children’s Residential Care Worker position with the company.

A recruitment and information awareness raising event is being held in Derbyshire on Tuesday 8 March for everyone seeking a career in health or social care. The event takes place at the Bolsover ACE Centre, with sessions from 10am to 1pm, and 3pm to 6pm.

A new, free training programme is being established for people in and around Chesterfield to become ‘Wellbeing Enablers’. The three-week scheme will provide an introduction into skills such as workplace behaviours, workplace health and wellbeing, coping with change, and developing confidence.

National Apprenticeship Week 2022 is the 15th annual week-long celebration of apprenticeships. The week in February brings together businesses and apprentices across the country to shine a light on the positive impact that apprenticeships make to individuals, businesses and the wider economy. 

Following the implementation of Derbyshire’s first two foundation cohorts of the NHS Cadets programme, new recruits are now being sought for the advanced programme.

Are you interested in a career as a support worker in adult community care?

Locally, Joined Up Careers Derbyshire is involved in a huge range of initiatives aimed at creating more staffing capacity across the health and social care sector. View this article to see the many ways you can be helped into a caring career.

An inspiring apprentice on a scheme run by Joined Up Careers Derbyshire has become a finalist in the Derbyshire Apprentice of the Year awards. Mia Cooper was a runner-up in the category which was part of the 2021 Business Awards run by East Midlands Chamber. The ceremony took place at the Derbyshire County Cricket Club on Friday 12 November.

The allied health professional (AHP) career development tool, launched in early 2021, has now attracted more than 400 users. The tool helps support AHPs with coaching conversations, career development planning and measuring progress against objectives.

Online events, in partnership with Indeed, are being held on September 21 to help people find new roles and careers in social care.

Filling social care vacancies is a big challenge and Joined Up Careers Derbyshire have teamed up with partners to promote a week of web events.

Joined Up Careers Derbyshire have teamed up with NHS Cadets and St John Ambulance to deliver two paid work and volunteering programmes to local students, starting in September 2021. NHS Cadets aims to attract young people into careers in the healthcare system and develop their skills.

An article promoting the Joined Up Careers Derbyshire virtual work experience programme has been published in the summer edition of Decisionz e-zine – a digital magazine supporting young people to make informed career choices - see: http://magazine.decisionz.co.uk/books/sodp (page 16).

An innovative week-long event to showcase the diversity of careers and pathways into health and social care is to take place in Chesterfield. ‘Careers that Care’ week, a series of virtual events organised in partnership with Derbyshire Voluntary Action’s (DVA) Community Chesterfield project, the University of Derby and Joined Up Careers Derbyshire, will take place from 21 to 25 June.

Joined Up Careers Derbyshire is working in partnership with Springpod to revolutionise the health and social care work experience offer through the Future Talent, Future Heroes programme. 

Derbyshire County Council and Derby City Council are staging a virtual recruitment day on Thursday 22 April for roles in social care. For more information about the event, which starts at 10.30am, please read on.

Joined Up Careers Derbyshire are a key partner in the Pathways to Health and Social Care project which supports job-seekers in Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire on their pathways into training or employment within the health and social care sector.

An easy-to-use, specially designed career development tool has been developed for allied health professionals (AHPs) to support them on their career journey.

Thank you to everyone who has offered their support to the Call to Arms campaign. Every role we recruit to is extremely valuable to the success of vaccinating our Derbyshire community and those who provide those critical frontline, patient-facing services. We continue to be truly overwhelmed by the support and we are working hard to ensure that we interview, provide employment checks, deliver information, training and support to you on this journey.

Joined Up Careers Derbyshire is delighted with the public’s response to our Call to Arms campaign, which asked for volunteers to support the Covid-19 vaccination programme. The reaction from the people of Derbyshire has been overwhelming, with more than 900 expressions of interest since we launched the campaign in November. We have now paused the campaign, with the exception of registered professionals, while we process the applications.

The Call to Arms initiative to resource the Covid-19 vaccination programme in Derby and Derbyshire is temporarily pausing receiving all further expressions of interest (30 November 2020). This pause is for all roles except registered professionals where we still have some existing need for support.

Parents, carers and young people are invited to attend our Virtual Health and Life Sciences Showcase from 6.00-7.00pm on Monday 30 November.

The Derbyshire Health and Care People Hub, part of Joined Up Careers Derbyshire, wants to recruit a Senior Project Manager (secondment or fixed term) to support the Call to Arms programme. This programme is concerned with rolling out Covid-19 vaccinations for staff and the public.

We’re turning the spotlight on an AHP role with Derbyshire Healthcare Foundation NHS Trust. The Trust is currently advertising for a band six physiotherapist in the mental health physiotherapy team, based at their Kingsway site in Derby.

Joined Up Careers Derbyshire are teaming up with Futures for Business (formerly known as Connexions) to help promote opportunities for people looking to launch careers in the health and social care sector.

Registrations are now open for the 2020 Derbyshire Allied Health Professions Day, taking place on Wednesday 14 October, using Microsoft Teams.

Joined Up Careers Derbyshire has launched an interactive app helping shine the light on a world of amazing careers within health and care.

A Derby school student has won the Joined Up Careers Derbyshire art competition set up to celebrate our health and social care heroes.

Joined Up Careers Derbyshire is encouraging children and young people to get creative in order to celebrate our health and social care heroes.

Joined Up Careers are promoting the five steps to improve your mental health and wellbeing during this year’s Mental Health Awareness Week.

Annual report 2019-20, published May 2020, brings together a review of the year and new initiatives for promoting and retaining health and care staff in Derbyshire.

During the current Covid-19 pandemic, health and care resources are being stretched like never before, and there is now a need for more staff to help out in Derbyshire’s care homes. Care homes throughout the city and county have a number of vacancies and there has never been a better time to consider a career in care.

New staff needed for health and care roles during Covid-19. We are asking local organisations and businesses whether their teams can help bolster the temporary health and social care workforce.

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Information and signposting resources for health, social care and community colleagues

Joined up Careers Derbyshire is pleased to announce that a new health and social care work experience directory has been launched.

Newspapers, radio and TV have picked up on our promotion of Return to Practice

The NHS in Derby and Derbyshire is encouraging healthcare professionals who have had a break in their career to return to practice.

Day of celebration for AHPs

Joined Up Careers Derbyshire is now active on Twitter

Welcome to our new website for Joined Up Careers Derbyshire. This new site gives us much more space and functionality to better promote the varied roles and opportunities for working in health and care across Derby and Derbyshire. Please take a look around the new site and let us know what you think.