Nursing

1
Nursing Midwifery Workload and Workforce
Planning

• Working in Partnership with your HR Department

2
Staff Governance

• staff are central to achieving the aims of
  NHSScotland and good people management is vital
• staff governance focuses on how NHSScotland
  staff are managed, and feel they are managed, by
  one of Scotlands largest employers (SEHD, 2007)
  
• staff governance is a system of corporate
  accountability for the fair and effective
  management of all staff and is key to the
  effective and efficient delivery of services

3
Staff Governance (2)

• staff governance standard sets out what each
  NHSScotland employer must achieve in order to
  improve continuously in relation to the fair and
  effective management of staff.
• implicit in the standard is that all legal
  obligations are met, including NHS employers
  complying with current employment legislation,
  and that all policies and agreements are
  implemented (SEHD, 2007)

4
Staff Governance Standards

• Staff governance has five key standards which
  employers will be required to deliver, entitling
  staff to be
• well informed
• appropriately trained
• involved in decisions which affect them
• treated fairly and consistently
• provided with an improved and safe working
  environment

5
PIN Guidelines

• dealing with employee concerns
• dignity at work eliminating bullying and
  harassment from the workplace
• equal opportunities policies
• facilities arrangements
• management of employee conduct
• personal development planning and review
• fixed-term contracts
• management of employee capability
• managing health at work
• redeployment
• secondment
• supporting the work-life balance

6
Defined Components of HR Management

• HR strategy
• change management
• organisational development
• day to day employee relations
• terms and conditions of employment
• resourcing
• workforce planning
• workforce remodelling
• job analysis and design

• employee appraisal
• secondments
• absence management
• reward and recognition
• flexible benefits
• post grading
• pay and benefits administration
• employee recognition schemes
• health safety policy and procedures

7
Defined Components of HR Management (2)

• agency and other contingent labour
• recruitment and selection
• redeployment and transfers
• individual performance management
• redundancy
• competency and skills planning/frameworks
• performance standards
• pay and reward strategy

• incident management
• compliance and inspection regime
• payroll administration
• equality and diversity in the delivery of
  services
• delivery of occupational health
• assessment and testing
• delivery of employee assistance and welfare