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Support Worker Consultancy by The Care Collaborative

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A national healthcare consultancy and social movement focused on strengthening and transforming the support worker workforce through effective workforce development initiatives.

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Support Worker Consultancy by The Care Collaborative

Support Worker Consultancy by The Care CollaborativeSupport Worker Consultancy by The Care CollaborativeSupport Worker Consultancy by The Care Collaborative

A national healthcare consultancy and social movement focused on strengthening and transforming the support worker workforce through effective workforce development initiatives.

Work with us
JOIN THE COMMUNITY (FREE)

Three Leaders. One Vision.

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Professor Richard Griffin

Professor Richard Griffin

Professor Richard Griffin

Visiting Professor of Healthcare Management at King’s College London and one of the UK’s leading experts in healthcare consultancy, focusing on support worker policy, research, and the transformation of the support workforce through effective workforce development.

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Dawn Grant

Professor Richard Griffin

Professor Richard Griffin

As a Senior Workforce & Education Leader with over 40 years of experience in healthcare consultancy, I have created the Higher Development Award to enhance the support workforce. My focus has been on supporting and transforming the support worker workforce through effective workforce development initiatives.

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John Gale

Professor Richard Griffin

John Gale

Senior workforce leader and consultant specializing in healthcare consultancy, with a career that spans frontline social work, system leadership, and national programme delivery focused on workforce development across health and social care. My experience also includes enhancing the support workforce and driving support workforce transformation.

Together, we leverage national research, system leadership, and lived workforce experience to drive healthcare consultancy efforts that redesign roles, education, and career pathways for the support workforce, facilitating support workforce transformation and effective workforce development for support workers.

About us

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The Care Collaborative is a national consultancy and social movement for the support workforce.

We work with health & social care organisations through our healthcare consultancy to: 


- redesign support worker roles 

- strengthen workforce capability 

- build clear education and career pathways 

- modernise training and development 

- deliver national workforce transformation programmes 

- provide evidence-based research, evaluation and workforce insight 


Alongside our consultancy work, we lead a UK-wide movement bringing together support workers, leaders, educators, and organisations committed to enhancing careers, care quality, and support workforce sustainability. 


We believe that better jobs create better care, and The Care Collaborative exists to facilitate this support workforce transformation.

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Our Mission

Support workers deliver much of the hands-on care across health and social care, yet decades of national reviews show they continue to face barriers to progression, inconsistent role design, limited access to training, and a lack of recognition for the essential work they do. This highlights the need for effective healthcare consultancy focused on the support workforce.  


The Care Collaborative exists to change this.  


Led by Professor Richard Griffin, Dawn Grant, and John Gale, our mission is to strengthen, develop, and elevate the support workforce through a focus on support workforce transformation by combining national research, lived experience, and decades of workforce development innovation.  


We work with organisations to redesign roles, improve capability, modernise education pathways, and build sustainable workforce models, while leading a national movement that brings together support workers, leaders, educators, and organisations committed to lasting change.  


We partner with organisations across England and the UK to turn this mission into measurable workforce improvement.  


Our commitment is simple:  


Better careers, better care, and a stronger future for the support workforce.

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Our services

Support Worker Role Redesign (National & Local Models)

Workforce Capability & Competency Frameworks (National Standards)

Workforce Capability & Competency Frameworks (National Standards)

We help organisations through healthcare consultancy to modernise support worker roles, improve job clarity, optimise delegation, and ensure that the skills of the support workforce are utilised to their full potential. 


The outcome is clearer roles, safer delegation, and improved effectiveness in workforce development.

Workforce Capability & Competency Frameworks (National Standards)

Workforce Capability & Competency Frameworks (National Standards)

Workforce Capability & Competency Frameworks (National Standards)

We design and implement competency frameworks, skills passports, and supervision models tailored to national standards and the specific needs of the support workforce in healthcare consultancy. This approach ensures consistent capability, transferable skills, and stronger supervision assurance, contributing to effective workforce development and support workforce transformation.

Career Pathways & Progression Models (Evidence-Based)

Workforce Capability & Competency Frameworks (National Standards)

Education Frameworks & Vocational Development (Blended & Accessible)

We provide healthcare consultancy that develops clear, evidence-based pathways for support workers, enabling them to progress, specialise, or transition into registered roles. This approach leads to clearer progression routes, improved retention, and more sustainable workforce development for the support workforce, ultimately driving support workforce transformation.

Education Frameworks & Vocational Development (Blended & Accessible)

Education Frameworks & Vocational Development (Blended & Accessible)

Education Frameworks & Vocational Development (Blended & Accessible)

We design accessible vocational education and blended learning models tailored for the support workforce, alongside organisation-wide curriculum approaches that enhance capability in healthcare consultancy. This leads to coherent pathways, consistent capability, and improved workforce development quality in the support worker sector, driving support workforce transformation.

Workforce Transformation Programmes

Education Frameworks & Vocational Development (Blended & Accessible)

Research, Evaluation & Workforce Insight

We lead large-scale workforce change programmes through our healthcare consultancy that enhance care models, redesign services, and foster a sustainable support workforce supply. 


The outcome includes measurable workforce improvement, sustainable service models, and significant system-level change, contributing to effective support workforce transformation and ongoing workforce development.

Research, Evaluation & Workforce Insight

Education Frameworks & Vocational Development (Blended & Accessible)

Research, Evaluation & Workforce Insight

We provide healthcare consultancy that delivers evidence-based research, evaluation, and insights into the support workforce. This information is crucial for informing strategy, developing business cases, and planning improvements and impacts. The outcome is robust evidence, clearer impact, and stronger strategic decision-making to facilitate support workforce transformation and enhance workforce development.

Initial conversations are informal and without obligation.
Discuss your workforce challenge

Who we work with

We work with leaders and organisations across England and the UK including:

NHS England and national bodies play a crucial role in the development of integrated care systems and system leaders. This includes NHS Trusts and provider organisations, which work closely with social care organisations and sector bodies to enhance service delivery. Additionally, education, training, and professional organisations are essential for workforce development in the healthcare consultancy field. The support workforce, including support workers, is vital for effective support workforce transformation. Furthermore, the voluntary and third sector contributes significantly to this ecosystem.

HOW WE WORK

We work in partnership with organisations to design, deliver and embed sustainable workforce change.

Evidence-led and grounded in national policy and standards, our healthcare consultancy is co-designed with leaders, educators, and the support workforce. This approach ensures alignment with organisational priorities and system context, while focusing on workforce development and support workforce transformation through structured, transparent, and outcome-focused strategies.

WAYS YOU CAN WORK WITH US

Strategic Workforce Consultancy

Education & Career Pathway Design

Strategic Workforce Consultancy

Our healthcare consultancy focuses on workforce reviews, diagnostics, and role redesign, all aimed at supporting the transformation of the support workforce. We also emphasize system-level strategy for effective workforce development.

Programme Design & Delivery

Education & Career Pathway Design

Strategic Workforce Consultancy

We specialize in the design and delivery of local, regional, and national workforce transformation programmes focused on healthcare consultancy, enhancing the support workforce, and driving support workforce transformation through effective workforce development.

Education & Career Pathway Design

Education & Career Pathway Design

Research, Evaluation & Workforce Insight

Competency frameworks, vocational education design, and clear progression pathways are essential for the healthcare consultancy sector, particularly in developing a robust support workforce. This is crucial for support worker roles and the ongoing support workforce transformation, ensuring effective workforce development.

Research, Evaluation & Workforce Insight

Research, Evaluation & Workforce Insight

Research, Evaluation & Workforce Insight

We provide evidence, evaluation, and workforce insight through our healthcare consultancy to inform strategy, business cases, and improvement planning for the support workforce, driving support workforce transformation and effective workforce development.

Workshops, Events & Expert Input

Research, Evaluation & Workforce Insight

Workshops, Events & Expert Input

Keynotes, facilitation, and workshops tailored for leaders, educators, and the support workforce, focusing on healthcare consultancy and workforce development for support worker teams involved in support workforce transformation.

Work With Us

We collaborate with health and social care organisations as a healthcare consultancy to design, deliver, and embed evidence-led workforce development for the support workforce, focusing on effective support workforce transformation for support workers.

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Connect With Us

Join the care collaborative

Join our free national community that unites support workers, leaders, and educators in the realm of health and social care. As a member of the Care Collaborative, you will benefit from: - A free monthly newsletter authored by Professor Richard Griffin, offering insights on the support workforce - Invitations to events, webinars, and discussions focused on workforce development - Access to free content, including podcasts and insights related to healthcare consultancy - Updates on workforce policy, research, and innovation leading to support workforce transformation - Opportunities to connect with others across health and social care What is coming next? Over time, we will also be developing a deeper, optional membership space for organisations, support worker networks, and leaders who seek: – structured workforce tools – access to expert sessions with the Care Collaborative founders – practical support to implement change

Privacy Policy

 Last updated: January 2026: 

  The Care Collaborative is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, and protect your personal information when you visit our website or engage with us.  

 The Care Collaborative is a UK-based consultancy and social movement working across health and social care to support workforce transformation, digital innovation, and vocational education design.

Our website address is:  https://thecarecollaborative.co.uk

If you have any questions about this policy or how we use your data, you can contact us at:  john.gale@thecarecollaborative.co.uk


 We may collect the following personal information:

  • Your name and email address when you:
    • Sign up to our newsletter
    • Contact us through a form or email
  • Any information you choose to include in a message to us
  • Basic website usage data (such as page visits and interactions), collected through cookies and analytics tools provided by our website platform

We do not collect sensitive personal data through this website. 


 We use your information to:

  • Send you our monthly newsletter and occasional updates
  • Respond to enquiries and requests
  • Share information about our work, services, events, and community activity
  • Improve our website and understand how it is used

We only use your data where we have a lawful basis to do so, including your consent or our legitimate interests in operating and improving our website and services. 


If you sign up to our newsletter, your email address will be stored securely and used only for communications from The Care Collaborative.  Our email communications are managed using GoDaddy Email Marketing.

You can unsubscribe at any time by clicking the unsubscribe link included in every email.


 Our website uses cookies and similar technologies to ensure it works properly and to understand how visitors use the site.Cookies may collect anonymous information such as:

  • Pages visited
  • Time spent on the site
  • General location (country or region

You can manage or disable cookies through your browser settings. 


 We take appropriate technical and organisational measures to protect your personal data.Your information is:

  • Stored securely
  • Accessed only where necessary
  • Not sold or shared with third parties for marketing purposes

We only keep your data for as long as it is needed for the purposes described in this policy. 


We do not sell your personal data.

We may share limited information with trusted service providers (such as our website and email platform) only where necessary to operate our services and only where appropriate safeguards are in place.


 Under UK data protection law, you have the right to:

  • Access the personal data we hold about you
  • Request correction of inaccurate data
  • Request deletion of your data
  • Withdraw consent for marketing communications
  • Object to or restrict certain types of processing 

To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at hello@thecarecollaborative.co.uk. 


 We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Any changes will be posted on this page with an updated revision date. 


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