Leeds Health and Care Learning Portal: New Courses Available

Over 70 new training courses and development programmes are now available on the Leeds Health and Care Learning Portal.    This online catalogue of free development resources, training and learning content can be accessed by anybody working or volunteering for a health and social care organisation in Leeds, regardless of employer, role or level of experience.   […]

Healthier Working Futures: Impact Report

The Healthier Working Futures project inspired young people (aged 16-25) to consider careers in health and care, supporting them to gain the required experience, knowledge and role opportunities to kick-start their career. With funding from the UK Government through the UK Community Renewal Fund, the project partnership team consisted of the Leeds Health and Care […]

LEEDS HEALTH AND CARE ACADEMY: 2023 PROSPECTUS

Please find our current Leeds Health and Care Academy prospectus below. This includes details of all of our current learning and development opportunities that are either available to book onto now, or to register your interest for. To download this digital prospectus, please click on the three dots on the top bar of the window […]

Six Benefits of Collaborative Apprenticeships

As part of National Apprenticeship Week, Jess Scrimshaw, Programme Manager – Partnerships and Workforce Development at the Leeds Health and Care Academy, discusses the importance and benefits of a collaborative apprenticeship approach.  In my role at the Leeds Health and Care Academy, I oversee the workforce development programmes within the Learning and Culture team. As […]

Launch of the Leeds Health & Care Learning Portal

Our new learning management system, the Leeds Health and Care Learning Portal, is now live and can be accessed by anybody working or volunteering in a health and care role in Leeds. This exciting new platform opens up access to online learning across health and care organisations in the city and ensures that all staff […]

Leeds Health and Social Care Hub Launch

The Leeds Health and Social Care Hub provides a new way for national and local partners to work together; an exciting opportunity for the Department of Health and Social Care and Leeds-based health and care organisations to collaborate to improve health outcomes across the community, and bring our different perspectives and resources together. By working […]

Healthier Working Futures

Healthier Working Futures, Leeds is an exciting new partnership of health, care and third sector partners who have received funding from the UK Government through the UK Community Renewal Fund. Following a competitive application process, we were the only project to be selected in Leeds and just one of seven projects across West Yorkshire. The […]

Leeds Health and Care One Workforce Strategy: 2024

1) Foreword Leeds Health and Care organisations came together in November 2019 to agree the Strategic Workforce Priorities which would underpin collective delivery of the city’s Health and Wellbeing Strategy and the Leeds Plan.  There was a clear and shared understanding that the Leeds system was already operating with notable workforce gaps which needed to […]

Pioneering new Leeds Health and Care Academy takes international stage

Around 57,000 people who work in Leeds’ health and care sector are part of the pioneering new Leeds Health and Care Academy showcased in Washington DC in May. In an unprecedented partnership approach by the UK’s third largest city, the Leeds Health and Care Academy is spearheading a new and shared way of thinking, learning […]