Find a member of your board to champion your aims with other board members.Identify and engage a board level champion Executive sponsors at board level participate in the end of programme celebration event which highlights the importance of the programme to the wider organisation, this also highlights the outcomes to the board. East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust has partnered with The Prince’s Trust since 2017 and embedding the programme required board level support.Communicate successes with senior leaders and the impact this is having within your team Recognise and celebrate the good work already achieved.Consider your local youth unemployment rate and the number of young people unemployed or NEET in your local authority.How do you currently recruit young people? What works well and what could be improved to reach those who are underrepresented in your current workforce?.What is the age profile of your workforce (under 25 and over 55)?.Use available data to review your local approach Use the expertise of organisations who work with young people such as The Prince’s Trust to connect with disadvantaged young people in your community and open up routes into the service to attract young people who would not normally consider a career in health and social care.For example, Kickstart, apprenticeships, traineeships and T levels. Highlight the funding incentives available to build sustainable pathways into employment and ongoing training and development for young people entering your workforce.Use available funding incentives and expertise Link to future workforce plans so that you can demonstrate a recruitment pathway.
For example, the NHS People Plan contains several actions to grow and diversify the workforce and develop career pathways for local people. Demonstrate how recruiting young people links to national priorities.Here are some top tips based on good practice collated from our networks. Organisations that have successfully recruited young people tell us they did this with the support of their senior leaders.
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