| The Human Resources Department |
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| Friday, 07 August 2009 12:30 | ||||||
The Medical Staffing Team This team supports 450 doctors within the Trust, from newly qualified to Consultants. They offer advice and encouragement on all employment issues and are responsible for the recruitment of our Trust appointed Doctors, interviews and the pre-employment checks. Medical Staffing actively ensure that they have the correct amount of Doctors for effective service provision. Below, from left to right : Emma Alderman, Elaine Beaumont (sitting), Britta Pfeiffer and Sarah Rosewall 
Education, Training and Development The Training team run a number of courses across the Trust which can be found on the Trust intranet. They can also facilitate courses for individual teams, such as Performance Development Review (appraisal) and Teamworking and are responsible for organising NVQs for staff to undertake. There are many NVQs available for support staff and they currently have a wide range of staff undertaking the awards. If you would like further details please contact the NVQ programme Lead, Paul Lea, on extn 3185, who can provide you with guidance on these awards. We’d also like to congratulate the Medical Education Team and the Undergraduate Education Team who have both received excellent reviews from the Deanery on the quality of the programmes they provide for the foundation doctors and medical students. Recruitment The recruitment team have had a very busy 12 months with 616 starters and 555 leavers in total. ”Hot Spot” areas meet weekly with their respective recruitment officers to ensure there are no bottlenecks and staff are responding promptly to offers of employment. On average there are 39 ”Live” recruitment advertisements in any one week. As well as recruitment, the team also have other responsibilities including the administration of maternity leave, long service award requests and certificates of employment. In the last 12 months new processes have been introduced relating to work permits, smart card management and criminal records bureau checks. 
Front left to right: Annie Swinburn and Karen Cooke. Back left to right: Jill Cottrell, Melinda Moore and Helen Blake. Pensions
Further details will be available soon on the NHS Pensions Agency website www.nhsbsa.nhs.uk/pensions The Pensions Department will also be recommencing pension awareness sessions in the near future and recommend that anyone over the age of 50, and who is thinking of retirement in the next 5 years, tries to attend one of these informative sessions. The Human Resources Business Partners Consist of Kate Clarke, Kerry Steele, Judy Henville and Tammy Pike. They are part of the operational management team managed by Martin Bleazard, Acting Deputy Director of Operations, and they have a close working relationship with the central HR function. Tammy and Kerry have been working hard supporting and coaching managers and staff with employee relations issues, such as handling misconduct, managing poor performance, employee grievances, dignity at work issues, sickness absence and other day to day staff issues. Kate and Judy work closely with the Clinical Directors and Business Centre Managers and their senior teams. on workforce planning, service developments and improvements, change projects, business performance and complex employee relations issues. They all work together with managers to develop and implement staff survey improvement action plans and deliver training across the Trust on staff management. The NHS Constitution: Staff Pledges The recently introduced NHS Constitution, records what the NHS stands for and what it should live up to. It sets out the principles to guide how all parts of the NHS should act and make decisions and sets out a number of pledges to staff:
Staff concerns (Whistle-blowing) policy If you have genuine concerns about risks to patients, professional or financial malpractice, or unlawful conduct, this policy will enable you to raise them without fear of victimisation or harassment. Raise any concerns that you have with your immediate manager, your Head of Service or Director, or Raj Bhamber, the Director of Workforce and Organisation Development. If you should feel that you need independent and confidential advice at any stage, contact the Independent charity Public Concern at Work, on 0207 404 6609. |
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