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NHS Workforce Management Virtual Conference
10:00 am
07 Jul, 2020 - 08 Jul, 2020
Virtual Event: GoTo
NHS Workforce Management Virtual Conference
10:00 am
07 Jul, 2020 - 08 Jul, 2020
Virtual Event: GoTo
NHS Workforce Management Virtual Conference
In the wake of the COVID-19 outbreak, Convenzis are committed to providing our public services with current policy updates and the sharing of best practice to help improve collaborative working and practical examples of innovation through these testing times.
All our virtual conferences are all split across 2 short but content-packed days, day 1 will focus on the sharing of best practices, national policy insights and innovation,
On day 2 speakers will continue their presentations focusing on the key take always and lessons learned, interactive question and answer sessions throughout will open the debate up and give you the chance to have your say.
Preserving and protecting the health, safety, and wellbeing of staff is critical for NHS organisations as they respond to the COVID-19 outbreak.
It is essential that NHS organisations take every effort to support the physical and mental wellbeing of the workforce, to enable staff to stay healthy and protect themselves, colleagues, patients,s and families as we continue to deliver services through this challenging period.
Convenzis are proud to host a series of free to attend virtual conferences that will help healthcare leaders keep up to date on current policy and research, our Virtual NHS Workforce Management Conference will focus on the some of the key challenges currently being faced while Healthcare providers battle with the outbreak of COVID-19
Key topics to include:
- Leadership training and support
- Diversity and inclusion
- Staff wellbeing and support
- Effective planning and reporting
- Remote Working
Key areas of discussion at the NHS Workforce Management Virtual Conference include:
Enabling and supporting staff to work from home: Employers should enable and support their staff to work from home wherever possible. Enabling home working is one-way employers can reduce the risk of infection to their wider workforce and patients while upholding core functions. Homeworking should also be utilised to support staff from ‘at-risk’ groups to continue working while minimising social contact.
Staff wellbeing and support: Employers have a moral and statutory duty of care to protect employees’ health and safety and provide a safe environment to work. NHS organisations need to be proactive in protecting employees and supporting them to feel safe and secure in their employment.
Fatigue: Employers need to consider the impact that fatigue can have on staff, particularly as changing roles and/or work patterns are implemented in order to support staff to stay safe. Fatigue can lead to additional risks, so organisations should encourage staff to raise any concerns they have with their line managers and consider increased breaks and adjustments to shifts where required
Workforce Digital Support Services: The next decade presents an opportunity to address data governance and cybersecurity concerns, agree on ethical frameworks and develop NHS staff/organisations to implement genomics and digital technologies in the workplace, this session will look closely at some of the systems and digital tools being used to improve both patient and staff satisfaction.
Registration for NHS Workforce Management Virtual Conference is complimentary for all NHS and Healthcare employees; it will provide a safe platform to network and engage with peers from across the UK, our interactive speaker sessions provide informative and engaging content to take away and help improve your departments.
We hope to see you at NHS Workforce Management.
Who will Attend
- CEO’s
- Commissioning Directors
- COO’s
- Directors of Finance
- Directors of HR
- Directors of Medical Workforce
- Directors of Operations
- Directors of Strategy, Transformation and Workforce
- Directors of Workforce and Organisation
- Heads of Business
- Heads of Commissioning
- Heads of Finance
- Heads of HR and Operations
- Heads of Learning and Development
- Heads of Training
- Heads of Workforce
- Hospital Directors
- Senior Management
Speakers
Darren Blake
Chief Operating Officer
Sponsors & Partners
The Agenda
11:00
Day 1 Case Study Sessions
11:45
Registration and Networking
12:00
“Freedom to Speak up”
Dr Henrietta Hughes
National Guardian for the NHS
NHS
In October 2016 Henrietta launched the national network of Freedom to Speak Up Guardians that provides training and support for Freedom to Speak Up Guardians in NHS Trusts and Foundation Trusts. This network is a unique cross-section of staff from different professional backgrounds and seniority to share learning and best practice as well as to give feedback on local priorities.
12:20
“Remote working: removing barriers for neurodiverse staff”
Aidan Kelly
Workplace Accessibility Specialist
Texthelp
We’re all experiencing a period of increasing uncertainty and change. As a result, more and more teams are moving to remote working – and for some, this is a completely new concept and way of working.
For your staff with neurodiverse conditions, such as dyslexia, dyspraxia, autism, ADHD, and Asperger’s – the new way of working can be particularly overwhelming.
In this session Texthelp will highlight some of the everyday communication challenges faced by neurodiverse colleagues, and explore how best to overcome these in their new remote working environment.
12:40
Networking and Panel Discussions
13:05
Sarah Brooks
Workforce and Organisational Development Manager
NHS Wales Informatics Service (NWIS)
Setting the context of pre-Covid 19 for NHS Wales Informatics Service and outlining how we have responded and supported our staff to enable them to work remotely during the pandemic. This session will outline our approach and the actions implemented during this period of enforced change which will inform our new ways of working.
13:25
Case study on Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust staff bank
Kelly Stiley
Account Director
Reed Talent Solutions
Ian Duggan
Doctors Account Manager
Reed Talent Solutions
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is one of the largest Trusts in England and over the past 20 years Reed have operated their staff bank – this presentation will look at the benefits of evolving the staff bank to include all staffing categories and how this supported the Trust during the COVID-19 crisis.
13:45
Networking and Panel Discussions
14:10
“Embedding diversity and inclusion good practise across the NHS”
Paul Deemer
Head of Diversity and Inclusion
NHS Employers
NHS Employers diversity and inclusion team supports and showcases the latest developments, both within and outside of the NHS. Using the latest evidence-based around equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) to stimulate action on the ground and seeking to change the focus of the debate from equality inputs, to proven business outcomes. In doing so, supporting NHS trusts to co-design services with diverse patients, people and communities
14:30
Maximising Effective Utilisation of Your Workforce Across Sites
Darren Blake
Chief Operating Officer
Bexley Health Neighbourhood Care (BHNC)
This session will present how Bexley Health Neighbourhood Care (BHNC) manages 600 staff across multiple sites in the Bexley community, delivering care to over 240,000 patients.
14:50
Networking and Panel Discussions
11:00
Day 2 Thought Leadership, Lessons Learnt and Implementation
11:45
Registration and Networking
12:00
Leading the NHS guardians part 2
Dr Henrietta Hughes
National Guardian for the NHS
NHS
In October 2016 Henrietta launched the national network of Freedom to Speak Up Guardians that provides training and support for Freedom to Speak Up Guardians in NHS Trusts and Foundation Trusts. This network is a unique cross-section of staff from different professional backgrounds and seniority to share learning and best practice as well as to give feedback on local priorities.
12:20
“FTSU in COVID-19”
Matt Asbrey
Freedom to Speak up Guardian / Staff Engagement Lead
Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Like many healthcare organisations, BHNC grappled with several operational challenges with its legacy systems and paper-based processes for managing service delivery and coordinating and collaborating across the Bexley area.
This was only exacerbated by the COVID-19 crisis and required a rapid solution to see the availability of staff, facilities, and critical inventory such as PPE, and improve slow and inaccurate reporting which was contributing to lagging response times and service outages.
Darren will share how BHNC overcomes these challenges by centrally managing the workforce through a command centre, enabling practice managers to effectively distribute staff across sites and recruit staff when there are staff shortages, as improve incident reporting and better collaboration between staff.
12:40
Networking and Panel Discussions
13:05
Cecilia Jones
Staff Engagement
NHS Wales Informatics Service (NWIS)
This session will cover responses from staff experience from working remotely and what has worked well and not so well during this period. We will share how this learning will shape our new model of working going forward.
13:25
Building on success in times of disruption, dislocation and disorientation – finding ourselves, our teams and our focus, now and beyond…
Toby Lindsay
Principal Consultant – Leadership & Organisational Development
Skills for Health
Huge achievements have been made in managing unprecedented levels of redeployment, effort and shifts in focus across workforce in recent times. Furthermore, this is coupled with impacts and implications of home working, colleagues shielding and teams being reconfigured. This session looks at what this means for individuals and teams sense of place in the organisation. How can we make sense of this and relocate ourselves in our teams and work to go forwards with a sense of connection and purpose? What does the mean for all those involved in supporting and developing workforce and how can we practically approach this work?
13:45
Networking and Panel Discussions
14:10
Why managing suppliers needs close attention in the current environment
David Finlay
Director
Transforming Lives
• how the ultimate risk always rests with the commissioner of services
• lessons from the failure of Carillion
14:30
Networking and Panel Discussions
