HR Annual Report

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HR Annual Report

• Lynn Lane
• Director of Human Resources
• January 2008
• (Agenda item 10)

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Change of Direction

• Moving the HR Directorate forward from Personnel
  to Strategic HRM
• Providing pro-active HR Service delivered through
  systems and process aligned to Trust objectives

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The Last Year ..

• Employment Services
• Review of expertise and capability within the
  existing team in order to change direction and
  focus from personnel to HR.
• Change of service to managers from reactive to
  pro-active
• Clearer focus, direction and management of all
  case load work eg disciplinaries, sickness
  absence, with clear action plans and timescales
  identified at the outset.
• Service redesigns
• Management of employee relations activities

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The Last Year ..

• Strategic Workforce Development
• Establishing a comprehensive Trust-wide workforce
  strategy aligned with current operational and
  future strategic planning for the Trust
• Scoping programme to meet EWTD 2009
• Input into workforce implications with SHA and
  PCT re Emergency care and Older workforce

5
The Last Year ..

• Learning Development Service
• Review of the service completed with alignment of
  provision to Trust objectives
• Key curriculum initiatives launched based on
  national occupational standards for staff bands
  1-4
• Management and Personal Effectiveness initiatives
• Review of management development programmes in
  order to deliver new training modules in 2008/09
• Clinical Skills initiatives

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The Last Year ..

• Recruitment
• Complete review of all recruitment and selection
  activity in order to improve service provision
• New Induction Scheme launched
• ESR Manager Self-Service successfully piloted
• Improved HR Reporting via Board and Quarterly
  Reviews
• Business case for electronic rostering approved
• Continued development of childcare services
• Completion of first phase of diversity training
  for all managers in the Trust

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The Last Year ..

• Medical Staffing
• 20 new Consultants successfully recruited
• Administered the MMC (MTAS) recruitment for
  Medicine for the Peninsula
• Adminstered the MMC (MTAS) starters for RDE
• Successfully re-banded 4 rotas for EWTD 2009
  compliance, saving in excess of 250k
• Successfully upgraded 4 non-career grade doctors
  to Associate specialist and Staff Grade levels
• Commendation received from the Deanery for the
  contribution made to the Specialty Training
  recruitment

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The Last Year ..

• Occupational Health
• Implementation of MMR vaccination for new
  healthcare workers
• Review of counselling activity
• Resources re-aligned to support new RDE
  induction programme
• Offering OH assistance to local and national
  businesses
• Devon Partnership Trust contract continuing
• Ongoing discussion re proposals with Devon
  Primary Care Trust to manage Devon-wide provision
  of OH services
• Extension of services offered to the Faculty of
  Health Social Work, University of Plymouth

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The Future ..

• Directorate Vision
• To deliver high quality, cost effective and
  professional services that make a real difference
  to the organisation.