Darent Valley hospital - DGT - People Strategy

Happy

Joy at work: Happy Lead: Chief People Officer

Workforce design

• Agile workforce development • Sharing agreements and passports with system partners and the GST Healthcare Alliance. • Partnering with our ICP and Kent and Medway ICS partners to offer joint training and rotations • Engagement with Kent and Medway Medical School and Health Care Academy • Build stronger relationships with schools and colleges in Dartford, Gravesham and Swanley and Bexley to encourage apprentices and school leavers to join the Trust to develop their careers in healthcare • Recruitment strategy including community employer; apprentice optimisation plan; international recruitment; and volunteers • Clear benefits package/total reward – our offer • Kent and Medway, system-wide talent management including identifying talent • Retention strategy including focus on flexibility; internal development routes and values-based recruitment • Staff reward and recognition • Interview techniques to reduce unconscious bias and promote diversity including disability and learning difficulty Recruitment and retention • Clear Divisional structures which show accountability and enable shared governance • Services and Divisions have clear workforce plans that include new roles and reflect service changes as a result of strategic or operational changes, e.g. Kent and Medway stroke review and COVID-19 • Development of new roles and ways of working include flexible working, innovative and remote working and also social distancing • Ambition to have zero agency staff • Workforce systems (e.g. e-rostering, e-job Opportunities through partnerships

Outcome: We will support and develop our staff, creating talented people for our organisation. Our staff will consistently report improved fulfilment at work, leading to local, regional and national recognition that Dartford and Gravesham Trust is the best place to work. There are four key delivery programmes that support the achievement of the Happy outcome. Each delivery programme comprises of a number of initiatives that will be progressed over the course of the next five years. Progress against each of these will be monitored by the Workforce Committee. There are four key delivery programmes that support the achievement of the Happy outcome. Each delivery programme comprises of a number of initiatives that will be progressed over the course of the next five years. Progress against each of these will be monitored by the Workforce Committee.

Education and training

• Induction support and preceptor programmes • Education and development plan • Realising potential at all levels

• High quality appraisals • Coaching and mentoring • Succession planning

• System leadership skills • Digital literacy increase • Utilising the training and development programmes on offer through GST Healthcare Alliance • Investors in People – maintain Silver throughout 2021, and progress to achieve Gold in 2024

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Trust Strategy Summary