A structured deep-dive programme across mental health, learning disability, community and criminal justice services
A multi-service HEE STAR-based deep-dive programme covering CAMHS, community nursing, learning disabilities, forensic and criminal justice pathways.
Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Multi-service workforce deep dive programme
Adult, older adult, CAMHS, LD, forensic and community services
Sustained programme across multiple engagements
Distinct pressures across every service line - and a workforce plan that had to hold across all of them
Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust delivers a broad range of specialist mental health, learning disability and community services. Each service line has its own workforce pressures, its own supply constraints, and its own operating context - but the trust needed a workforce approach that could hold across all of them, so investment, redesign and recruitment decisions could be made against a coherent picture rather than a stack of individual service plans.
Deep dives in each service, connected by a common method
We ran a programme of HEE STAR-based workforce deep dives across the trust's service portfolio. Each deep dive combined activity and workforce analysis, structured clinician and operational engagement, and scenario-based options appraisal. The programme grew across engagements, with each deep dive informing the next and the collective set giving the trust an increasingly integrated view of its workforce.
How the programme was delivered
CAMHS and beds
CAMHS pathway
Deep dive across CAMHS services and inpatient beds, connecting activity, workforce and pathway options.
Community nursing
Community pathway
Community nursing workforce deep dive, quantifying supply constraints and skill-mix options across community teams.
Learning disabilities
Specialist pathway
Workforce deep dive across the trust's learning disability services, including inpatient and community elements.
Criminal justice, liaison and diversion
Specialist pathway
Deep dive across criminal justice liaison and diversion services - a small but complex workforce with specific supply challenges.
Forensic and mental health inpatient
Inpatient pathway
Workforce and pathway analysis across mental health and forensic inpatient services, including secure settings.
Prospect Park scenario modelling
Site-specific
CAMHS and mental health inpatient scenario modelling at Prospect Park Hospital, connecting site-level workforce planning to trust-level decisions.
What changed
A common method
A repeatable, HEE STAR-based deep-dive method embedded across the trust's workforce planning function.
Cross-service view
An increasingly integrated view of workforce across the trust's specialist service portfolio, informing investment and prioritisation.
Options-based decision making
A structured way of putting workforce and service options in front of the executive team, moving decisions from asserted need to evidenced options.
Services delivered
HEE STAR-based workforce deep dive · CAMHS workforce planning · LD/A workforce planning · Community nursing workforce planning · Forensic and inpatient workforce planning
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