The Care Workforce Pathway is a comprehensive framework designed to clearly define careers in adult social care, detailing the knowledge, skills, values, and behaviours essential for delivering high-quality, personalised care and support.
The Care Workforce Pathway will set out clearly what a career in social care means and the level of knowledge, experience and skills required to deliver high-quality, personalised, care and support. It is the first universal career structure for the adult social care workforce, which sets out the knowledge, skills, values and behaviours needed to work in adult social care.
The Care Workforce Pathway identifies the knowledge and skills required to deliver high-quality, personalised care and support across different roles. It aims to help address recruitment and retention issues by providing a shared vision for the workforce and a recognised platform to support career progression and individual learning, making the sector a more attractive place to work.
The Care Workforce Pathway will empower people working in adult social care to develop themselves and their careers by setting out how they can gain skills, access learning and development, and grow in their careers in a way that meets their aspirations.
Find further information on The Care Workforce Pathway and how it has been developed.
We’ve been working in partnership with the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) to develop the role categories within The Care Workforce Pathway. PA Consulting were commissioned to develop a suite of practical resources to help care providers use the Pathway in their organisations.
The tools will guide you through the options for adopting The Care Workforce Pathway, and have been designed with human resource professionals, operations managers and learning and development teams in mind. There are also resources for line managers and individuals who want to plan their own development.