The community has scheduled three sessions that are available for registration and joining:
The Epilepsy Society are recruiting or an External Trainer (Bank) in their External Affairs team
Download the full job advert here and the full job description here
Any questions should be directed to their recruitment team - contact them here
Buckinghamshire Health and Social Care Academy, together with
Adult Social Care at Buckinghamshire Council and Lyndsey and Cordie from Coco-Operative hosted the:
Buckinghamshire Safeguarding Summit
at Missenden Abbey on Wednesday 26th June 2024
The summit focused on:
- Improving our understanding of safeguarding concerns, safeguarding practice, multi-disciplinary working, decision making and outcomes for residents
- Bringing together key partner organisations to shape and plan our Buckinghamshire safeguarding training and to discuss the potential opportunities for improvement.
We'd like to thank all the attendees and everyone involved in the day for making the discussions and the agenda so engaging, and the event such a success. A report is in development which will detail a summary of the event and it's discussions, as well as recommendations for next steps moving forward. This will be circulated to everyone who attended and those who were unable to but have been involved with the event.
A big thank you to everyone who attended and contributed to the immense success of our second annual Conference!
Developing collaborative partnerships with local faith groups to promote positive mental health and wellbeing
Posted on: 3 May 2024
A new report sets out how health and social care professionals, faith leaders and members of faith communities can work together to identify new ways of partnership working to improve community mental health. Project Steering Group Chair, Professor David Sines CBE, and members of the project team explain the project, their findings, and recommendations in the report: Developing collaborative partnerships with local faith groups to promote positive mental health and wellbeing.
The report also includes research from the University of Bedfordshire to better understand barriers some faith communities might have to accessing mental health support, and an evaluation of the co-design and co-development of a new higher education student placement programme in faith communities.

In the Foreword to the report Professor David Sines CBE advised that ‘Faith leaders and their teams have deep knowledge of their own communities and the ways in which mental health needs are perceived, understood, acknowledged, and best responded to. This project confirms how this level of insight and understanding can be further nurtured and aligned with the professional skills and expertise of mental health professionals to provide more meaningful and intelligible systems of support for our service users. This partnership not only enables us to develop a greater sense of purposeful engagement with members of our local communities, but it also enables us to grow, learn and develop a greater sense of cultural competence and capability’.
This project was commissioned by NHS England (previously HEE) and the concept endorsed by local faith leaders and members of faith communities in 2022. Buckinghamshire Health and Social Care Academy is most privileged to have been involved in the design and leadership of this project which has been steered by representatives from faith communities and faith leaders, professionals in NHS, social care and voluntary organisations in Buckinghamshire, all contributing a wealth of experience and knowledge.
The recommendations outlined in the report will be used to shape the delivery of future engagement and awareness raising, education and training, and research initiatives. These will be actively supported by the Academy’s Volunteer Faculty in partnership with colleagues from the project steering group.
Our sincerest thanks to the faith leaders, community members and volunteers for their contributions to this project, for their insight, honesty, patience, and positivity about what can be achieved in partnership, and for their willingness to try something new. To our colleagues in our mental health services, frontline practitioners, commissioners, trainers, and managers for sharing their experiences and candid reflections, for their motivation to make positive change, and for their genuine passion to provide the best possible care. We are also exceptionally fortunate for the large number of colleagues who contributed as both leaders in their faith communities and as retired or current healthcare professionals, providing valuable insight to the perspectives of faith communities and service providers.
Health Inequalities Communities of Practice
Do you work or volunteer with people who experience health inequalities?
Health inequalities are unfair, avoidable differences in health across the population, and between separate groups within society. Inequalities include how long people are likely to live, health conditions they may experience and care that is available to them.
What is a Community of Practice and how can it help address health inequalities?
A Community of Practice (CoP) is a group of people who share a common concern (e.g. health inequality), a set of problems, or an interest in a topic and who come together to fulfil both individual and group goals.
BHSCA's Partners at the Bucks Skills Show 2024
Over 6000 overall attendees from over 30 local schools engaged with 127 different employers spanning nine sectors. Students from Year 9 and above and 300 teachers from schools across Buckinghamshire, and over 600 adult careers seekers and parents as part of the evening session.
Read more about the Bucks Skills Show on Bucks Skills Hub's Website, Download the official press release and See a few promotional images here
Check out our partners below to see them in action as part of the Health and Social Care sector!
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The Bucks Skills Show will be back for 2025... stay tuned!
Meanwhile, the Bucks Skills Hub are preparing for their Confident Futures Skills Show on 11th June 2024.
Check out what's going on with the Buckinghamshire Community Wellbeing Hubs on their page here or below - including some of the activities currently running at the Hubs and how to get in touch!
BOB Pharmacists Leadership Development Programme
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Open to Senior Clinical Pharmacists, and those looking to move into this position within the next 12 months, from Primary Care and Primary Care Networks in BOB.
Leadership is a key part of the work of all pharmacists regardless of sector, location or experience.
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The BOB Pharmacist leadership development programme
offers a comprehensive mix of eight days face-to-face workshops spread over nine months, a Leadership 360° questionnaire, wrap around support and optional online learning. The content will remain flexible to the needs of those attending and during the first workshop delegates will be invited to steer the content of the remaining days. It aims to develop the knowledge, skills, attitudes and behaviours to support experienced pharmacy professionals to become outstanding leaders.
This programme is a fully interactive and reflective programme, with time built in to think, reflect and grow for the future.
View the Mercure Thame Lambert Hotel website here
The next cohort for this programme is full; future cohorts will be announced when available.
Please contact Jason Greasley if you have any questions or would like additional information
The first day of the first BOB Pharmacists Leadership development programme cohort has been completed. There were 14 attendees for the successful first day. The course resumes after Easter for two days of coaching and mentoring skills!
Personalised Care is all about involving people in discussions and decisions about their care – improving outcomes and leading to greater satisfaction for patients and professionals.
A Personalised Care approach enables more meaningful and effective conversations, delivering better results and helping to reduce demand for services.
The Personalised Care Team have a broad range of
free online courses from the Personalised Care Institute (PCI), as well as blog posts and case studies, that are available to all health and care professionals in Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire West (BOB)
A Spotlight on:
Dr Rebecca Bowers’ blog on the importance of working in partnership with patients.
The 2023 R&KE faculty Writing Retreat
The first Research and Knowledge Exchange faculty has held its first Writing Retreat at Missenden Abbey in Great Missenden, on Friday 6th and Saturday 7th October 2023.

The retreat was attended by colleagues from across health and social care in Buckinghamshire, with acute care, social care, the voluntary sector, HEI and FE representation.
All retreat participants will be continually supported over the 6-12 months immediately following the retreat and beyond by the retreat staff from Buckinghamshire New University and University of Bedfordshire.
The faculty and Academy are holding another Writing Retreat in Spring 2024, and have every intention on holding future retreats later in 2024 and beyond. Information will be widely circulated when available.
The BOB Personalised Care Training team have a free, interactive training session to build discussion skills around vaccine hesitancy: Let’s Talk About Vaccines. The training explores the issues, myths and barriers around vaccine hesitancy, providing attendees with the techniques and approaches to help people make informed choices.
The BOB Head of Ill Health Prevention, Alicia Siraj, has written an inspiring blog on the importance of this training, including attendees’ feedback (available on the BOB website here).
Please use the below links to download an informative flyer with more information, and to email and book a place or find out anything else.
Further training dates for 2024 are on the BOB webpage
We have also just launched a new 2 day Change Coaches course for vaccination conversations.
This builds on the Let’s Talk About Vaccines training, providing additional coaching tools and support, to develop and practice new skills and techniques. Anyone from the BOB area who has completed the Let’s Talk About Vaccines training can apply for this course.
The BOB ICS Education and Training Summit
Oxford Brookes University
Thursday 15th June 2023
An opportunity for key BOB stakeholders to come together and discuss the education and training of the BOB health and social care workforce.
Buckinghamshire Health and Social Care Academy's
Inaugural Conference 2023
Missenden Abbey, Tuesday 13th June 2023
We want to thank our partners, our faculty leads and stakeholders, as well as all other individuals and organisations who helped to make this event the success that it was.
The 2024 Conference is in development now and is open for registration. Contact us for more information.
The Aylesbury Buckinghamshire Community Wellbeing Hub
Official Launch - Thursday 1st June 2023
Buckinghamshire New University's Aylesbury Campus
Speeches by Professor Paul Morgan, Juliet Anderson and Karen Buckwell-Nutt, Professor David Sines OBE, Ruth Farwell CBE DL
Formal opening by The Countess Howe, His Majesty's Lord-Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire
Please contact bcwh@bnu.ac.uk with inquiries
Wanted:
AHP Career Ambassadors
AHP Career Ambassadors are AHPs working in Bucks who are passionate and enthusiastic about their work and can help to increase others knowledge and understanding of AHP careers!
These AHP careers ambassadors can support with careers events (online or in-person) at local schools/colleges and community events, to promote a range of AHP careers and opportunities. It also gives those acting as ambassadors a chance to further their careers, develop their confidence and network with others working in Health and Social Care in the local area.
The project aims:
- Identify AHPs in Bucks who would like to be/are already acting as career ambassadors.
- To ensure representation of all AHP professions including ‘small and vital’ and ‘shortage’ professions.
- Involvement of AHPs from a range of groups which are currently under-represented within the current AHP workforce.
- To create resources available for ‘careers ambassadors’ to use at events.
- To ensure sustainability of career ambassadors across teams/organisations for the future.
The AHP Faculty are looking to expand the number and diversity of the AHP Career Ambassadors across Bucks!
If you would like to be involved in the work development group or are interested in finding out more about becoming an AHP Career Ambassador, contact the BOB AHP Faculty below.
Nursing Associates Apprenticeship Programme for Social Care Providers across Buckinghamshire
SCHORD Programme Workshops
The
Social Care and Health Organisational Resilience Diagnostic (SCHORD) toolkit was developed by a partnership between the University of Bedfordshire, Research in Practice, Health Education England and Buckinghamshire Health and Social Care Academy. The toolkit provides leaders and managers with an accessible, research-informed diagnostic tool and associated workbook to help them build and sustain resilience in their organisations post COVID-19.
Managers and deputies of organisations in the Care sector are invited to a
series of 4 workshops which introduce the SCHORD framework and highlight how it can be used in the Care sector to improve resilience and wellbeing among employees.
Research & Knowledge Exchange's 'Evaluation Webinar'
Recorded on 16/03/2022
Working on a service evaluation or thinking of starting one?
Look no further, this webinar is just for you!
Please enjoy the recording below of the outstanding speakers including Professor Gurch Randhawa, Dr Yannis Pappas, and Professor Angel Chater, and chaired by Dr Louise Grant from University of Bedfordshire, for the first BHSCA Evaluation Webinar!
My Wellbeing Series
The 'My Wellbeing Series' was designed by our Research & Knowledge Exchange faculty heads at the time; Yannis Pappas and Julia Williams.
See all three chapters on our Research and Knowledge Exchange Faculty page
On the 7th December 2021, we joined Dr Louise Grant and Professor Gail Kinman for the launch of their SCHORD diagnostic tool and workbook.
These tools are to be used by the social care leaders of Buckinghamshire for supporting the workforce's wellbeing and the promotion of organisational resilience.
The event was hosted online with the diagnostic tool set to be released in January 2022.
View a recording of the presentation right here! (see right).
BHSCA 10 Lecture Series:
Research & Innovations Supporting the
Health & Social Care Workforce
The Research & Innovations Supporting the Health & Social Care Workforce Lecture Series comprised of 10 lectures which was produced by the University of Bedfordshire & Buckinghamshire New University. Follow the link below to view each lecture!
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