Staff appraisal is important to ensure our staff are able to deliver in their roles and also receive the development they need.
Our Trust has an agreed appraisal process and this ensures that staff clearly understand expectations against their agreed objectives and Trust values and behaviours and are fully supported.
Our Learning and Organisational Development Team provide training for managers and staff on our Trust appraisal process and also ensure the process continues to meet the needs of our Trust and individual members of staff.
Our Trust is committed to utilising coaching conversations to develop our staff, teams and culture.
We have an internal coaching service, providing one-to-one and team coaching to support the development of individuals and teams.
There are a number of accredited individual and team coaches delivering the internal coaching provision.
Our Trust also participates in the Leeds Coaching Network with local authority and university partners. The network supports ongoing development and supervision for our coaches.
We run a comprehensive range of compulsory training (also known as statutory and mandatory training) courses and modules for clinical and support service staff.
They include things like safeguarding, moving and handling, prevention and management of violence and aggression (PMVA) and resuscitation.
We offer a comprehensive employee induction and this includes local team induction and a corporate induction workshop, covering key information about our Trust and our services.
Our Trust has a track record of utilising apprenticeships to develop healthcare support worker roles in specific services. Our Trust has also participated in a Leeds citywide apprenticeship programme, developing a small cohort of individuals to gain experience across the health and social care sector.
We are committed to developing our whole workforce and we actively provide a number of development opportunities for support staff.
Our Trust is currently developing the introduction of a learning framework to enable support staff to develop core knowledge and skills and at the same time achieve an accredited qualification. In addition, our Trust is also involved in innovative programmes to establish new extended support worker roles, particularly in the nursing workforce.
Our Trust has in the past accessed funding and supported its support workforce to access a variety of development programmes, enhancing skills and knowledge to add real value to teams and services across the organisation.
Individual staff have also benefited from these development opportunities which have in turn led to individuals having career development and progression.
We are committed to managing and growing the talent we have within our workforce. Competent and trusted leaders, at all levels, are key to the effective development of our organisation and will be vital in helping us to achieve our priorities and long-term strategic vision.
To support this we offer two training programmes:
- The Mary Seacole programme
This is an eight-month leadership and management development programme designed to prepare aspiring and first time leaders for the demands of leadership in the healthcare system.
- The Management Essentials programme
This is designed to improve the skills and confidence of recently appointed or first time managers.It consists of a programme of independent workshops (including managing teams, budgets and change etc.) that can be accessed as individual modules. The modules cover the main aspects of what it takes to manage individuals and teams.
Teamwork is fundamental to future success. Our Trust requires strong and well-lead teams across our organisation to be delivering high performance.
Strong evidence exists to indicate that where good team work exists, service user and staff experience will also be good.
Our Learning and Organisational Development Team takes an active and leading role in promoting and supporting teams to develop and improve their performance.
The team has skilled facilitators who can work alongside teams and their leaders to support their development. The team is also accredited to offer a number of team development diagnostic tools, to support their work.
Our Learning and Organisational Development Team takes a leading role in wider staff engagement.
The team helps our organisation listen to and act on feedback from staff.
We do this in a number of ways including through the yearly staff survey, the quarterly staff Friends and Family Test and a number of other forums and opportunities which we call Your Voice Counts.