Three Key Themes

To show how the Local Government and NHS agenda compliment each other here are three key themes which both organisations have recommended independently but which actually pull together a Strategic Human Resource approach that is essential to success based on strategy, workforce planning and identifying key skills shortages.

ONE
STRATEGY

A Strategic Human Resource approach that is essential to success reflecting

  1. Effective change management or strategic Human Resource function addressing all the people aspects of Organisational Development
  2. The high performance strategy should address organisational development, skills development, recruitment, and retention and pay issues
  3. Staff should be motivated to deliver top quality and efficient customer focussed services

TWO
WORKFORCE PLANNING

Workforce planning is critical to successful corporate planning and design and needs to reflect

  1. That key plans and strategies identify and address the workforce implications
  2. That the workforce is fully involved and informed of the major changes

THREE
KEY SKILLS SHORTAGE

Key skills shortages need to be identified and addressed before they turn into a crisis. Plans needs to indicate

  1. Key areas where future skills shortages are identified
  2. Action to be taken to address areas of high turnover
  3. Workforce remodelling and process redesign is underway
  4. Skills pathways are put in place to grow our own staff
  5. Incentives are offered to older workers to stay in post

Within Sandwell the following piece of work developed as an attempt to pull this complex agenda together and putting it into a quality framework using the acronym RUMBA to ensure we made the workforce plan

Realistic, Understandable, Measurable, Believable and Acceptable to the whole economy.