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Capacity Management |
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Written by Communications Team
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Capacity management job skills: capacity to keep going in the face of adversity!
Two bleeps, two sturdy feet, an extra layer of skin, an additional measure of tact and diplomacy and a special sense of humour!
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 14 October 2009 13:19 )
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The Human Resources Department |
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Written by Communications Team
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Raj Bhamber (right) has recently joined the Trust as Director of Workforce and Organisation Development. She was Director of People and Organisational Development at North West London Hospitals for a number of years and immediately before joining us was Head of Workforce Delivery for NHS London.
’I am delighted to join the Trust at this exciting stage of organisational development where people are truly at the heart of the Foundation Trust journey from good to great. It is a real privilege to join a team who demonstrate talent and commitment to improving the patient experience’. |
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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.
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.
Pensions
The Pensions department currently provide services to six NHS Trusts & PCTs.
The team is led by Pauline Sandu who we were delighted to welcome back to the Trust at the beginning of this year. In addition to the day to day workload of dealing with retirement applications, pension forecasts and membership enquires (to name but a few!) there is also a great deal of work being carried out by the team in preparation for the ’Choices Exercise’ which is expected to commence in early 2010 for the South East Coast area. The ’Choices Exercise’ will give scheme members the option of remaining in the old scheme or transferring to the new scheme. |
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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, Kerry Steele, Marie Crosbie, Jenny Ampleford and Tammy Pike.
The HRBP’s are part of the team managed by Kate Clarke, Assistant Director of Workforce and OD.
They all work 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; as well as working closely with the Clinical Directors and General Managers and their senior teams on workforce planning, service developments and improvements, change projects, business performance and complex employee relations issues.
The HRBP’s also liaise 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:
- To provide all staff with clear roles and responsibilities and rewarding jobs for teams and individuals that make a difference to patients, their families and carers, and communities
- To provide all staff with personal development, access to appropriate training for their jobs and line management support to succeed
- To provide support and opportunities for staff to maintain their health, well-being and safety
- To engage staff in decisions that affect them and the services they provide, individually, and through representative organisations and through local partnership working arrangements.
- All staff will be empowered to put forward ways to deliver better and safer services for patients and their families.
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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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 25 August 2010 10:42 )
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The Intensive Care Unit |
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Written by Communications Team
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Our Intensive Care Unit (ICU) provides vital care for the most seriously ill patients around the clock. Patients can be admitted at any time of the day or night and staff have to be ready to start treatment straight away and deal with the unexpected.
The unit has 9 intensive care beds and is staffed by over 80 medical, nursing and administration staff. Using the most modern equipment, the team work together to deliver the highest standard of patient care and offer the best chance of recovery.
But how does it all work? What is day-to-day life actually like for ICU staff? Read on to find out.
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Last Updated ( Friday, 07 August 2009 11:49 )
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