Jane Brightman is Director of Workforce Development at Skills for Care, where she led the development and implementation of the first adult social care Workforce Strategy for England.
Jane has over 30 years of experience across the adult social care sector including frontline care, leadership, education, digital transformation and national policy.
For 10 years she was Director of a private training organisation specialising in health and social care delivery before going on to national roles supporting training and development in social care.
Jane spent two years at NHSX (now NHS England) in the blended Digitising Social Care programme as Assistant Director, leading and delivering on the White Paper commitments to support the adult social care sector to digitise.
Jane facilitates an online network of leaders in social care with over 9000 members and has several trustee and NED roles. In 2022 she was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from Arden University for services to social care. She holds a number of NED and trustee roles across education, health and care.