Our commitments

New ways of working and delivering care road map

Select each commitment below to highlight our annual objectives. This is how we aim to deliver our People Plan ambition of new ways of working and delivering care. 

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Develop an agile workforce who can deliver effectively in their roles.

Governance Group

People Employment Group and the People Talent and Organisational Development (OD) Group.
2021 Objectives
  1. Design and approve an Agile Working and Flexible Working policy and guidance.
  2. To develop a comprehensive set of frequently asked questions (FAQs) in partnership to provide clarity on the Trust’s agile working approach.
2022 Objectives
  1. Implement a trust-wide Agile Working Policy and approach.
  2. Advocate and socialise the Agile Working and Flexible Working policy including manager guidance and support.
  3. Work with colleagues and stakeholders of the Agile Working Group to deliver project/system changes that will support an agile workforce.
2023 Objectives
  1. Evaluate the impact of the trust-wide Agile Working Policy and approach, implement continuous improvements, and transition to business as usual.
  2. Review contracting arrangements to establish whether change is needed to accommodate agile working, i.e. probation.
  3. Staffnet 365 project to deliver new staff intranet to enable staff to access essential information on any device, from anywhere, at any time.
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Continue to build a culture of innovation and improvement in our approach to people development, systems and processes.

Governance Group

People Talent and OD Group and the People Resourcing and Retention Group.
2021 Objectives
  1. Implement a new Trustwide Learning Management System (LMS) that delivers an improved user experience and captures/ reports on Learning Needs Analysis (LNA), classroom course availability and CT compliance.
  2. Establish the role of the People, OD and Talent Group as gatekeeper of any new learning initiatives which are identified at place and system level.
  3. Implement a new, simplified appraisal platform that enables objective setting, wellbeing assessments and integrates with the existing workforce systems.
2022 Objectives
  1. Include within recruitment guidance and manager training selection methods which support managers to test innovation and improvement competence.
  2. Reviewing our systems to ensure that they meet the need for local retraining and upskilling, working in partnership with local higher education institutions.
  3. Feedback from course modules to review and improve the learning management offer.
  4. Supporting managers, through training, to utilise innovative development pathways to support resourcing and skills gaps e.g. apprenticeships, retire and return, new roles etc.
  5. Complete a scoping exercise to configure the integrated LMS and appraisal to capture the LNA for the Trust.
2023 Objectives
  1. Following a 12 month data gathering process, utilise systems data (appraisals / LNA / career conversations) to assess quality and to inform support interventions to guide improvements to people development.
  2. Reviewing our systems to ensure that they meet the need for local re-training and upskilling, working in partnership with local higher education institutions.
  3. Feedback from course modules to review and improve the learning management offer.
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Develop OD and change management support to facilitate new ways of working and delivering care.

Governance Group

People Talent and OD Group
2021 Objectives
  1. In collaboration with other services, review and agree in-house OD consultancy offer and approach to support new ways of working and service development.
2022 Objectives
  1. Roll out the in-house OD consultancy offer to services.
  2. Evaluate the OD consultancy offer to services utilising agreed metrics.
  3. Refresh the approach to organisational change through the induction of a new policy and procedure and training packages to support interventions.
  4. Continue to identify teams that require support from the OD function through using the workforce metrics on a rolling basis and deliver intervention where required.
  5. Continue to work with improvement colleagues to understand and utilise best practice diagnostic tools to inform effective team working supporting quality improvement (e.g. SREC).
  6. Review and continue to embed the team development approach e.g. Affina Journey and Team Development Manager self-service hub.
2023 Objectives
  1. Evaluate the OD consultancy effectiveness in supporting new ways of working and delivering care.
  2. Review workforce impacts and lessons learned for further future integration.
  3. Utilise new policy to support new change programmes i.e. Community Transformation.
  4. Continue to identify teams that require support from the OD function through using the workforce metrics on a rolling basis and deliver intervention where required.
  5. Continue to work with improvement colleagues to understand and utilise best practice diagnostic tools to inform effective team working supporting quality improvement (e.g. SREC).
  6. Review and continue to embed the team development approach e.g. Affina Journey and Team Development Manager self-service hub.
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Provide accessible and intuitive software solutions to support People and OD initiatives.

Governance Group

IMSG and People Talent and OD Group.
2021 Objectives
  1. Complete a review of the current salaries and wages forms.
  2. Commence a pilot of the safer staffing software platform in the Leeds CAMHS inpatient units.
2022 Objectives
  1. Develop and implement an intuitive, integrated workflow management solution to replace the SW process.
  2. Implement a safer staffing acuity software solution across inpatient services.
2023 Objectives
  1. Develop and implement an intuitive, integrated workflow management solution to replace the SW process.
  2. Implement a safer staffing acuity software solution across inpatient services.