Not-for-profit organisation committed to an improved and sustainable workforce

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Welcome to Skills for Justice 3

Consultancy Services 4

Employer Membership 5

Organisational Development Tool - Ambit 6

Workforce E-Rostering 7

Research Services 8

Apprenticeship Support Services 10

Apprenticeship Levy – Get Prepared 10

Apprenticeship Trailblazers 11

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As the Sector Skills Council for the UK’s Justice and Community sectors, we work directly with employers, from the Police, Fire and Rescue, Local Government to Armed Forces, to ensure high quality and sustainable public services by improving delivery and skills within the workforce.

In 2015, we merged with Skills for Health. We pride ourselves on being the authoritative voice around workforce issues affecting specific and important areas of the UK’s public sector. As a hub for skills policy and educational standard developments, we work collaboratively with employers, education providers and policy informers to meet the needs of the whole sector.

Our team of experts assess emerging trends and needs across the sector delivering robust, dynamic and innovative research to inform policy development, strategic workforce and service planning.

As an employer-led organisation, we support employers to develop, manage and access cost-effective products and services that improve employers performance such as workforce development, apprenticeships, education and training. These products include advice and consultancy relating to the application of Occupational and Apprenticeship Standards, bespoke qualifications, accreditation, training and support.

This brochure details how our products and services can benefit your organisation, for further details, please visit www.sfjuk.com.

Welcome to Skills for JusticeWe are Skills for Justice, a not-for-profit organisation committed to an improved and sustainable workforce.

Chief Executive, Skills for Justice & Skills for Health John Rogers

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Consultancy Services As one of the UK’s leading advisors for workforce development and consultancy, we work with a number of organisations across the UK’s public and private sectors implementing the most cost-effective workforce models and solutions to ensure efficient service delivery.

Organisations across the UK’s Justice, Armed Forces, Fire & Rescue and Local Government sectors commission us as their trusted partner, to help them face industry challenges and to create a flexible and sustainable workforce. We want to make sure you have the people with the right skills, working at the right time – helping you to make best and efficient use of your workforce.

We understand how changes in policy can affect an organisation. As experts across our sectors, we will keep you well-informed of these changes and advise you on the best approach to successfully implement them within your organisation.

Our consultancy experts will help you identify, understand and achieve the change you need and are on hand to help with:

3 Workforce Planning

3 Objective workforce reviews

3 Service & role design/redesign

3 Customised career development frameworks

3 Apprenticeships

3 Getting good people into hard-to-fill entry level posts

3 Quality Assurance/Benchmarking against industry standards and Quality Frameworks, such as Investors in People

3 Research & Labour Market Intelligence

3 International work

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A membership with Skills for Justice is a key asset if you’re an organisation that values continual learning and workforce development.

Employer Membership

Membership includes access to:

• A dedicated Account Manager who will work with you to address your specific workforce development and skills issues

• National Occupational Standards (NOS) Tool – a database of standards, qualifications and templates to support consistency and benchmarking across workforce development

• Priority access to knowledge events

• Access to an academically-trained team of research professionals skilled in gathering vital insight to inform your future work programmes

• Access to clear and meaningful up-to-date statistics, Labour Market Information to help you plan for the future in terms of development needs and staffing strategies

• Information, advice and guidance on current skills.

By becoming a member, you’ll unlock a wealth of knowledge and resources to help transform your organisation, along with guidance from Skills for Justice when facing sector challenges and the implementation of new policies, such as the Apprentice Levy; we’ll be on hand to help you adapt to efficient ways of working.

What’s included:You will get the full support of our experienced team who will work with you to develop and sustain a skilled workforce - so you’re prepared for today and the future. Our experience ranges from workforce planning and role design, to recruitment and selection. We also assist with recruitment and selection, learning development, performance management and accreditation. We excel in the use of standards as a common language for defining and describing the requirements of a role.

Be ahead of the curve with full access to a wealth of knowledge and up-to-date resources. We want to enable you to provide your staff opportunities to refine and elevate their skillset against the latest industry standards and regulations.

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As part of Skills for Health and Justice, Ambit offers a new way to assess, benchmark, challenge, maintain and improve performance in your organisation.

Organisational Development Tool - Ambit

This online diagnostic tool is designed to help you appraise how your organisation is performing in relation to essential aspects of organisational life.

It’s easy to use and offers clear insights – providing you with a baseline for developing your improvement strategy and reassurance on where you are doing well.

Ambit aims to work with you to realise the potential of your workforce. Proven solutions are designed to operate efficiently, to raise the quality of services and improve productivity.

Start using Ambit today with your complimentary Level One trial offer. skillsforhealth.org.uk/ambit

Visit the Ambit website or call 0117 910 2286 to find out more.

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Our e-rostering software, Realtime Rostering, helps organisations from all sectors, rosters all staff efficiently, while balancing the demands of cost and productivity improvements. As a not-for-profit organisation, we strive to offer the most competitively priced e-rostering solution on the market.

Roster all staff and stay compliantRealtime Rostering is an accurate and efficient all-staff e-rostering solution, developed to ensure staff are fully compliant and that rosters are fair and easily accessible to all. Realtime Rostering is simple and easy to use without compromising on technical capability.

Making it work for youWe work with organisations to ensure that our system seamlessly integrates into your existing systems. We’ll ensure you are using the most cost effective software solution on the market, going above and beyond to help your organisation use all modules to their full potential, while measuring effectiveness and ROI.

Key benefits of Realtime Rostering 3 Accurate, efficient system that allows you to roster all staff groups3 Efficient deployment of staff – right people, right skills, right place3 Realtime view of staff rotas – updates instantly across the system3 System allows staff to access their details and rotas online 24/73 Supports future planning, reducing last-minute operational changes 3 Takes into account factors such as annual leave and shift swaps to help staff manage their time better3 Greater work / life balance and higher staff satisfaction.3 Seamless integration with your existing systems (HR/payroll)

E-Rostering Skills for Justice, in partnership with Skills for Health offer one of the most comprehensive e-rostering solutions on the market.

Easy to use, cost effective solution3 Cost effective online solution for creating compliant rotas and delivering smooth day-to-day working for all staff3 Scheduled Events integrates rostering with location based activity3 Enables rosters to be managed across multiple sites3 Automatic alerts for EWTD breaches - help avoid financial penalties3 Accessible online to all relevant staff at any time and via Smartphone3 Robust auditing and reporting functionality3 Low cost solution that delivers significant savings and ROI3 Better use of senior staff’s time – managers and team leaders spend less time on scheduling3 Plan up to a year in advance, with flexibility to plan around unexpected absences and take account of annual leave and shift swaps

To find out more about Realtime Rostering and how it can benefit your organisation www.realtimerostering.uk/justice

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We can help you with:

3 Identifying and managing the impact of your products or services – Our evaluations will enable you to identify objectives, inform strategic planning decisions and support the evidence of progress.

3Maximising the social value of your products or services Through our Social Return on Investment assessments we can help you to account for a much broader concept of value such as social, environmental and economical, to evidence your impact and maximise the value of your products or services.

3Reducing skills gaps and shortages – Our targeted surveys investigate the skills gaps and shortages that exist within your sector’s workforce to help you plan strategically and increase productivity.

3Planning for the future – By providing you with clear, accessible and meaningful up-to-date statistics, Labour Market Information and research about your workforce we can help you plan for the future in terms of development needs and staffing strategies.

3 Improving business intelligence – We produce, publish and disseminate research that improves the understanding of your sector and beyond – all to help your organisation deliver innovative and successful products and services.

Our academically-trained research professionals are skilled in gathering vital insight that informs future work programmes needed for our sectors, and government policy.

More specifically, our research aids in future planning, improving business intelligence, forecast and identifying financial return on skills investment. We can help to reduce skills gaps and shortages, as well as look at managing the impact of services.

Research Services Enhance the work you do with our dynamic research services. Skills for Justice has a substantial track record in conducting the highest quality research and evaluation in the public, private, voluntary and community sectors.

For more information about our research services, visit our research hub at www.sfjuk.com/research

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Apprenticeship policy is changing and the Government is placing renewed emphasis on Apprenticeships as a key factor in the development of the workforce right across the UK. Organisations will face apprenticeship targets as an integral part of workforce development and new entrant recruitment. Are you ready for this?

As of April 2017 all UK employers in both the private and public sector employers with annual pay bills of more than £3million a year will not only have to pay the levy but importantly will be able to access funding support for training apprentices. Are you equipped to take advantage of this?

We think it is very important that organisations begin preparations for these changes. For many employers this will mean they may need to reorganise their apprenticeship strategy / delivery.

How we can help you

Skills for Justice in partnership with our National Skills Academy can offer you the following support, information, advice and guidance to ensure you don’t miss out on critical funding:

Strategy and preparation

3Understanding the levy and making the most of the new funding system and maximising your return

3Apprenticeship Strategy Development (getting organisations started/making it sustainable)

Implementation and Delivery

3Capability and Capacity building

3 Implementation support

3Brokerage support – working internally to increase apprenticeship opportunities

3 Information Advice and Guidance – making most of levy/advice line services

3Full managed service

3Apprenticeship Training Agency / Apprenticeship Employment Agency

Apprenticeship Support Services

Apprenticeship Levy – Get Prepared

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Apprenticeship TrailblazersNew Apprenticeship Standards are being developed in England which will, ultimately, replace the current frameworks.

An independent review of Apprenticeships by Doug Richard in 2012 sought to develop a world class Apprenticeship system in England, offering young people a real alternative to University, and employers a ‘job ready’ pipeline of workers. The final report resulted in a series of recommendations designed to make Apprenticeships more rigorous and more responsive; notably putting you, the employers, in control.

A series of groups, known as ‘Trailblazers,’ have been set up to develop the new standards. Trailblazers also develop the Assessment Plans.

Employers lead the activity, consulting with their sector as required before submitting the final products to Department for Education. A panel at Department for Education reviews and/or approves the submission before allowing the group to proceed to the next phase.

Some trailblazers choose to develop additional resources and employer briefs for use during implementation. Skills for Justice can facilitate these in partnership with sector employers. We can help employers navigate their way through the development of Apprenticeship Standards and Assessment Plans, reducing the burden on the employers and ensuring momentum and enthusiasm is maintained.

Guidance for the process is supplied by the Department for Education who are shaping the Government Policy on Apprenticeships as the Trailblazers progress.

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