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HEALTHIER WORKING LIVES AND AGEING FOR WORKERS IN THE CARE SECTOR: DEVELOPING CAREERS, ENHANCING CONTINUITY, PROMOTING WELLBEING (HWL)

护理行业工人的健康工作生活和老龄化：发展职业、增强连续性、促进福祉 (HWL)

基本信息

批准号：
ES/V016156/2
负责人：
Linda McKie
金额：
$ 151.02万
依托单位：
King's College London
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2022
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2022 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FV016156%2F2
关键词：
HEALTHIER WORKING LIVES AGEING WORKERS

项目摘要

It is generally accepted that being in good quality, safe work is beneficial for one's physical and mental wellbeing. If this is the case, being able to work healthily and happily for longer would be significant step toward meeting the UK's Healthy Ageing Challenge that people should be benefitting from five more healthy and independent years of life by 2035. Some workers are already seeking to move into more socially meaningful or personally fulfilling work as they get older, and care work has been identified as offering such opportunities. Others would choose to continue in their existing caring role if the work could be more flexible and accommodating to their work/life needs. However, the work can be physically and emotionally demanding, and it remains poorly rewarded.The care sector is worth circa £15.9billion to the UK economy, with over 5,500 providers. Over 80% of workers are women, with 21% of BAME origin, and some 30% are aged 50 plus with many of this age group working in supervisory and managerial roles. The composition of the care workforce also reflects inequalities, reinforced by Covid-19 with the lower paid, older and BAME workers have disproportionately experienced illness and deaths across 2020. Further, the impact of changes in immigration, linked in part to Brexit, are of particular concern to both workers and providers.Recruitment and retention are major challenges. During wave one of the Covid-19 pandemic, at times there were 120,000 vacancies many filled by agency workers (with increased risked of virus transmission). Now in wave two, providers report that fear of working in the sector is deterring prospective applicants and workers speak of their own stresses in what is also a rewarding job. The annual turnover of staff is a third and this presents and notable challenge to the wellbeing of staff, residents, families, and communities. Continuity in staffing, recognition of the value of their work, and supporting workers to co-determine their development needs, are central to this project. The team combines Scottish Care, which represents 400 organisations in the private, not for profit and charities sector of residential provision, Legal & General, one of the UK's leading providers of retirement villages, Codebase the largest technology incubator in the UK, which offers mentorship for the deployment of ideas, and design consultants Creative Venue (John Mathers, ex-CEO of the British Design Council, and his colleague Julian Grice, who has extensive experience in applying design disciplines to public services and policy innovation), who will work closely with care staff and the research team to explore and co-design possible solutions to the health and professional development challenges that care workers face daily. Creative Venue will also use their extensive design knowledge and networks to give care workers' ideas the best possible chance of commercial success. Researchers with decades of experience in care, health, design, business and working life from the University of Edinburgh have worked closely with partners to co-develop this project. Across four stages over 36 months, we will revisit existing knowledge, engage with care sector staff to consider their priorities for working and role development, combine work across the team as a whole to run co-design workshops, develop ideas for outputs and products, along with a final review of the process and application of outcomes. At every stage, the role of the team is one of listening, exploring, ensuring critical conversations can take place in safe and exploratory ways, with ideas considered and potentially taken forward. Our Knowledge Network, co-chaired by Sophie Bowlby (Academic, Third Sector Board Member) and Stephen Coleman (CodeBase), has engagement from workers, care providers, design, incubator, and technology groups.

一般认为，从事高质素、安全的工作，对人的身心健康是有好处的。如果是这样的话，能够健康快乐地工作更长的时间将是迈向英国健康老龄化挑战的重要一步，到2035年，人们应该从五年的健康和独立生活中受益。一些工人已经在寻求随着年龄的增长进入更有社会意义或更能满足个人需要的工作，而护理工作已被确定为提供此类机会。其他人会选择继续担任现有的照顾角色，如果工作可以更灵活，更适合他们的工作/生活需要。然而，这项工作可能对身体和情感都有很高的要求，而且报酬仍然很低。护理部门对英国经济的价值约为159亿英镑，有5,500多名提供者。80%以上的工人是妇女，其中21%来自黑人、亚裔和少数族裔，约30%的工人年龄在50岁以上，这个年龄组的许多人担任监督和管理职务。护理工作人员的组成也反映出不平等，2019冠状病毒病加剧了这种不平等，在2020年，收入较低、年龄较大和BAME工人的患病和死亡人数不成比例。此外，部分与英国脱欧有关的移民变化的影响，是工人和供应商特别关注的问题。招聘和留住人才是主要挑战。在2019冠状病毒病大流行的第一波期间，有时有12万个空缺，其中许多是由机构工作人员填补的（病毒传播的风险增加）。现在，在第二波，供应商报告说，对在该行业工作的恐惧正在阻止潜在的申请人，工人们谈到他们自己的压力，这也是一份有价值的工作。工作人员的年流动率是三分之一，这对工作人员、居民、家庭和社区的福祉提出了显著的挑战。人员配备的连续性、对其工作价值的承认以及支持工人共同确定其发展需求，是该项目的核心。该团队将代表400个私人组织的Scottish Care，非营利和慈善机构的住宅供应，法律的& General，英国领先的退休村提供商之一，英国最大的技术孵化器Codebase，为思想的部署提供指导，以及设计顾问Creative Venue（英国设计理事会前首席执行官约翰·马瑟斯和他的同事朱利安·格莱斯，他在将设计学科应用于公共服务和政策创新方面拥有丰富的经验），世卫组织将与护理人员和研究小组密切合作，探讨和共同设计可能的解决方案，以应对护理人员每天面临的健康和专业发展挑战。创意场地还将利用他们广泛的设计知识和网络，使护理工作者的想法最好的商业成功的机会。爱丁堡大学在护理、健康、设计、商业和工作生活方面拥有数十年经验的研究人员与合作伙伴密切合作，共同开发了这个项目。在36个月的四个阶段中，我们将重新审视现有知识，与护理部门的工作人员接触，考虑他们的工作和角色发展的优先事项，联合收割机将整个团队的工作作为一个整体来运行共同设计研讨会，开发产出和产品的想法，沿着对过程和结果应用的最终审查。在每一个阶段，团队的角色都是倾听、探索，确保关键对话能够以安全和探索的方式进行，并考虑和潜在地推进想法。我们的知识网络由Sophie Bowlby（学术，第三部门董事会成员）和Stephen科尔曼（CodeBase）共同主持，来自工人，护理提供者，设计，孵化器和技术团体的参与。