Workforce

Our North Central London Integrated Care System vision for workforce is for our community to receive high quality health and care services delivered by a representative and diverse workforce, in which people are supported to achieve their full potential in an inclusive and compassionate environment free from racism or other discrimination.

Our mission is to support North Central London (NCL) health and social care organisations to:

- be excellent employers, developing and supporting the wellbeing of existing staff and attracting new people to live and work in North London
- plan their workforce and development needs to deliver new care models in new settings, including in integrated care systems
- be socially responsible organisations, using our influence and decision making to best serve the interests of our communities and reduce inequalities.

NCL People Board

To support the delivery of our NCL workforce vision and mission we have established the North Central London (NCL) People Board, which was launched on 5 October. The Board will support NCL to take forward our agreed workforce programme high-impact priorities in response to the NHS Long Term Plan and NHS People Plan 2020-21

Staff wellbeing and tailored programmes
Talent management, progression, and career pathways
Local workforce recruitment routes into health and care employment
Workforce planning and modelling based on population
Working with and across sectors

The Board works as a unitary board to:

provide strategic vision, effective challenge and advice to NCL organisations and the Integrated Care System (ICS) and
support governance and performance management of programmes and projects to deliver its vision.

This includes:

supporting the development and delivery of the NCL People Plan
communicating and engaging with NCL staff networks, promoting NCL workforce programmes and priorities
identifying and acting on opportunities for co-operation and delivery of NCL priorities
supporting the recruitment and retention and of NCL staff, and
acting as an enabler and champion of system change.

Alongside the NCL People Board, our workforce programme is engaging with wider health and care staff via the existing staff networks e.g. BAME, LGBTQ, Disability, Women’s and Equality, Inclusion and Diversity leads, HR Directors networks and other leading networks to refine our objectives and people plans. NCL workforce programme is also support the establishment of a system wider staff network to drive and support the Equality, Inclusion and Diversity agenda across the health and care system.

Membership

The NCL People Board has been designed to be inclusive, diverse and representative, with members recruited through an open and rigorous recruitment process. The board membership is diverse in terms of gender, ethnicity, age, care settings and roles, with 87.5% female members and 87.5% of members from black, Asian or minority ethnic (BAME) backgrounds.

Name	Job title	Organisation
Jinjer Kandola	Chair of the Board, Chief Executive	Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust
Adeola Olukosi	Prescribing Advisor	North Central London Clinical Commissioning Group - Haringey Borough
Alena Chong	GP Partner, Appraiser, Clinical Advisor for NHS England and Improvement, Committee Member for NICE Clinical Guidance	NHS, NHS England and Improvement
Alfredo Thompson	Workforce Programmes Director	North Middlesex University Hospital
Angie Velinor	Deputy Head of Midwifery - UCLH/ Workforce Lead - NCL Better Births	University College London Hospitals
Caroline Bete	Community Service Manager	Barnet Enfield and Haringey Mental Health Trust
Deborah Gordon	What Matters Learning & Development Lead Officer	London Borough of Camden
Deep Shah	Integrated Care Fellow	UCLPartners
Dr Dami Adedayo	GP, former chair Barnet LMC	St Georges Medical Centre
Edwina Neumann	Occupational therapist & trust Freedom to Speak up Guardian	Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital
Fiona Yung	Divisional Manager Clinical Support Services, Pathology, Infection, Camden MSK	University College London Hospitals
Irene Henderson	Clinical Governance & Quality Manager/ Race Diversity Champion	Tavistock & Portman NHS Foundation Trust
Joanna Bolton	Project Manager - Adult Social Care Improvement Team	London Borough of Islington - Adult Social Care
Lizzie Earl	Assistant Director of Workforce Resourcing	Central & North West London NHS Foundation Trust
Mehvish Shaffi-Ajibola	Head of Organisational Development and Equality, Diversity and Inclusion	Whittington Health NHS Trust
Sandi Drewett	Director of Workforce and OD	Moorfields Eye Hospital
Toral Pandya	Senior Strategy Programme Manager	University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Governance

The People Board is chaired by a senior leader within the ICS - Jinjer Kandola, Chief Executive at Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust. It is accountable to the NCL ICS Partnership Board, and will feed into London People Board and NCL Clinical Advisory Group (CAG) and other governance structures.

News

The NCL People Board has signed off the NCL workforce high impact priorities identified with our wider health and care staff via workforce workshops during summer 2020, and these are aligned with the London and national People Plan priorities.

19 November 2020: Third staff engagement event held with the wider staff networks, including equality and diversity leads to focus on equality, diversity and inclusion priorities, and ways to take forward the London Workforce Race Strategy.

More information

For more information email the Workforce Programme team NCLSTPPMO@nhs.net. Important: In the email subject line add 'Workforce query: Please forward to Workforce Programme Team'.