Directorate Plan for Wellbeing
and Community Health
November 2015
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Our Family of Services
Public Health
To improve the
health and
wellbeing of local
residents and
reduce health
inequalities across
the life course
through delivering
nationally
mandated and
locally determined
public health
priorities and
supporting the
statutory functions
of the Health &
Wellbeing Board.
Education and
Skills
Children’s
Social Care
To enhance
resident’s skills and
employment
opportunities; by
providing services
that support the
quality of early
years, primary and
secondary
education and
youth provision;
and by delivering
services to support
those with special
educational needs
(SEN) and
additional needs.
To provide services
that protect children
and young people
from significant
harm and offending;
including providing
foster care for those
who cannot live
with their families
and residential
accommodation for
the most
vulnerable;
supporting families
through early help
and intervention
thereby avoiding
involvement of
statutory services
Adult Health
and Social
Care
To provide
integrated
community health
and adult social
care services in the
county, with the aim
of providing care
closer to home;
maintaining and
supporting service
users; promoting
independence and
wellbeing;
integrating coordination of care
Adults
Strategic
Commissioning
and
Safeguarding
To understand the
demand and
manage the
market to ensure
there is sufficient
provision of an
appropriate
quality to meet
demand, whilst
also providing the
statutory
safeguarding
service
Northumbria NHS
Foundation Trust
Support for: ICT; Estates; Performance; Governance; Policy; Client Relations; Service User Involvement
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Our Primary Functions (1)
Public Health
Mandatory Public Health Functions
• Open access sexual health services
• National Child Measurement and NHS
Health Check Programmes
• Healthy Child programme 0-19 years
• Public health advice service to the
Clinical Commissioning Group
• Information and advice to local health
protection arrangements
Other Public Health commissioning
responsibilities
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Tobacco control,
Healthy eating,
Physical activity
Alcohol harm prevention
Obesity prevention
Population wellbeing
Reducing health inequalities
Prevention and early intervention
programmes
Specialist drug and alcohol services
Avoidable injury prevention
Workplace health
Dental public health
Cancer and long term conditions
prevention
Wider determinants of health
Children’s Social Care
Education and Skills
Schools
Social work
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Supporting Strategic Planning and Policy
Partnership and Infrastructure Planning
School Improvement Services
Major Developments and Delivery of
capital projects
• Response to Social Inclusion Policy
• Strategic Transport
• Locality-based social work services
• Services for disabled children and young
people
• Police and Court liaison
• Hospital and health liaison
• Multi agency risk assessment
Skills
• Residential care homes
• Foster carers and Adoption
• Family Support
• Business Support and Communications
• Supporting access to External Funding
• Organisational Development and Human
Resources support
• Strategic Support to set direction for post16 education
• Adult Learning
Pupils
• Ensuring all pupils and young people
reach their potential
• Increase the number of good and
outstanding schools
• Promote improvement in exam success
• Receive entitlement to good quality full
time education
Looked After Children
Northumberland Adolescent Services
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Youth Offending
Participation and advocacy
Leaving Care
14+ Social Work Team
SORTED substance misuse team
Early intervention and prevention
• Children’s Centres
• Supporting Families
• Family recovery
Parents
• Ensure parents have choices of good or
outstanding schools across the county
• Encourage parents to get involved and
become governors
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Our Primary Functions (2)
Adults Community Health
and Social Care
Safeguarding and Strategic
Commissioning
Advice, provision of assessment
and care for vulnerable adults and
older people (incl. Learning
disabilities and Mental Health)
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Care Management
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Community & District Nursing
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End of Life & Palliative Care
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JELS & OT
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Podiatry
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Public health services
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Re-ablement and community
rehab
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Single Point of Access
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Hospital to Home
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Sexual Health
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Speech and Language
Therapy
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Specialist Services e.g.
Tissue Viability, Cardiac
Rehab
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Wheelchair services
• Commissioning and contracting
services for adult social care
• Policy for wellbeing group
• Strategic safeguarding team
• Support for Safeguarding Adults
Board
• Complaints team
• Welfare Rights team
• Equality and Diversity support
• Local Authority Designated
Officer
• Independent Reviewing service
• Support for Local Safeguarding
Children Board
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Our Management Team
Deputy Chief Executive
Daljit Lally
Head of
Safeguarding &
Strategic
Commissioning
Jane Bowie
Head of Service
Finance,
Estates and ICT
NHS/NCC
Neil Bradley
Director of Adult
and Community
Care Services
Vanessa
Bainbridge
Director of
Public Health
Penny Spring
Head of
Children’s
Social Care
Rachel Farnham
Director of
Education and
Skills
Andy Johnson
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Our Objectives and Key Outcomes
To equip all our children
and young people with the
appropriate qualifications,
training and skills to access
meaningful work
To ensure that children in
need and at risk receive
timely and appropriate
interventions to prevent
significant harm
To ensure that everyone has
the opportunity to lead
healthy, independent lives
with dignity and confidence for
as long as possible
• Attain better outcomes at Key
Stage 2 and 4
• Close attainment gaps and
improve rate of progress
• Attain better outcomes for the
more able (even in best schools)
• Facilitate better leadership and
quality of teaching
• Secure continued improvement in
level of early years development
• Build better partnerships with
Diocese, Academies and Schools
• Become more responsive to local
employer needs
• Review in-house Adult Learning
and Youth services, moving to
targeted rather than universal
service
• Better partnership working
between schools/ Work based
learning providers /college/LA/
and employers
• Improve outcomes for adult
learners
• Give young offenders a genuine
second chance
• Ensure all front line staff are
suitably skilled and experienced in
recognising and responding to
abuse and neglect
• Work with partners to safely
reduce referral rates and
caseloads of qualified social
workers
• Continue to develop arrangements
for children at risk of sexual
exploitation
• Recruit qualified social workers to
reduce vacancies
• Ensure appropriate targeting of
Troubled Families funding
• Complete reconfiguration of
services for all who need
residential provision
• Increase number of foster carers
and adopters and reduce the
numbers placed with IFA’s
• Reduce the timescales for children
placed for adoption
• Continue to develop support
services for care leavers and track
progress
• Support educational and training
opportunities for all looked after
children and care leavers
• Maximise use of points of access
for integrated services
• Embed integrated care
programme, specifically for high
risk individuals
• Further develop rehabilitation
services working in community
and into hospitals to improve
discharge
• Respond to social care reform
• Learn from quantitative and
qualitative measurement of
patient satisfaction
• Further embed 7 day working
• Move more investment
“upstream” towards early
intervention and prevention
• Ensure all LA residential homes
exceed national standards and
are rated as at least good
• Provide public health advice and
support to commissioners of
health and social care services
• Provide a challenge and
advocacy role in relation to
preventative healthcare services
To promote and protect the
health and wellbeing of the
local population
• Provide public health information
and advice to local health
protection arrangements
• Provide independent scrutiny
and challenge of local
immunisation and screening
arrangements to ensure
optimum population coverage
• Commission public health
services based on assessed
need, best evidence and cost
effectiveness.
• Implement an asset based
approach to improve community
health and wellbeing
• Develop Moving On project to
include arrangements for
support for all care leavers
• “Make every contact count” to
promote health and wellbeing
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