HR Annual Report

Lynn Lane
Director of Human Resources
January 2008

(Agenda item 10)

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
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
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
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
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
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 RD&E
• 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
The Last Year ..
 Occupational Health:
 Implementation of MMR vaccination for new healthcare
workers
 Review of counselling activity
 Resources re-aligned to support new RD&E 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
The Future ..
 Directorate Vision:

To deliver high quality, cost effective and

professional services that make a real
difference to the organisation.