Practice and Workforce Development

Practice and Workforce Development is a theme which runs throughout much of our research within the Faculty of Health and Wellbeing. To find out more about the research we are involved in, take a look at the projects below.

Essential Narratives of Care

This international research project investigates how the arts can be used to develop empathy, care and compassion in health professionals.

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Lived experience practitioner training short course

This project aims to develop the workforce of Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust by embedding those with experience of using mental health services.

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The role of flexible methods in social work education on access to professional qualifications

This study explores how flexibility in social work education at postgraduate level supported access to the social work profession.

Transforming Urgent and Emergency Care

This was a 12 month practice development study to impact on the development and delivery of the future integrated Urgent and Emergency care workforce in East Kent.

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The Cassandra Project: Making the Complexity of Community Nursing Visible

There is a need to effectively promote safe staffing levels in community settings. This challenges commissioners and providers of services to find rigorous methods of capturing workforce evidence that can be systematically used to shape effective services and skill mix for the future.

CPD FOR qUALITY cARE

This was a 12 month research project to develop and test a CPD Impact Tool that identifies mechanisms for measuring the impact of learning on individual, team and organisational effectiveness in relation to improvements in quality of care and patient outcomes in the workplace.

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The Centre for Work-Based Learning and Continuing Development