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Supporting Developing and Valuing Staff: 2nd Virtual NHS Workforce Congress
11:00 am
16 Sep, 2020
Virtual Event: GoTo
Supporting Developing and Valuing Staff: 2nd Virtual NHS Workforce Congress
11:00 am
16 Sep, 2020
Virtual Event: GoTo
2nd Virtual NHS Workforce Congress: Supporting Developing and Valuing Staff:
2019 marked the start of our NHS workforce congress series, now with 3 highly successful events under our belt we are very pleased to be continuing the series throughout 2020, but before we look at the details, let’s hear what people are saying about the events;
“A pleasure to work with the Convenzis team once again on another successful conference, with a varied and stimulating lineup of speakers and exhibitors which will help improve productivity in our National Health Service.” Head of Digital Transformation, Public Health England (PHE)
800+: Delegates attended the first 3 events
89: Percent of past delegates rated speakers good/excellent
92: Percent of delegates said they would attend future events
Supporting, developing and valuing the NHS Workforce: 3rd NHS Workforce Congress:
Crippling staff shortages mean NHS employees are routinely being asked to do more with fewer resources as they desperately try to keep our health service afloat.
As well as increasing staff numbers the NHS needs to become a better place to work for NHS staff, we are currently facing a once in a generation workforce challenge, Governing Healthcare bodies and national leaders from across the UK are working closely together and have developed an interactive document that addresses the key Workforce enablers and sets a clear vision on how they would like the NHS workforce for the future to look,
- Valuing, supporting, developing and investing in NHS staff
- Improving leadership culture: Creating compassionate, Positive and improvement focused on a national scale to help improve leadership culture nationally
- Prioritising urgent action on nursing shortages: Acting now to address the nursing shortfall
- Developing a workforce to deliver 21st-century care: New roles, working initiatives and models of delivery will be implemented to innovate caregiving.
- Developing a new operating model for the workforce: interoperability and collaborative working will be at the forefront of these new changes
The NHS recently announced that £40m of investment is being made to help reduce NHS staff log in times which has been noted as the main technology frustration facing NHS staff, NHS staff currently have to log in to multiple computer programmes when tending to a patient, with each programme requiring its own login details. Some staff need to log into as many as 15 different systems.
We have identified some key policy updates including the £40m log in time investment that will be discussed at the Septembers event;
International Year of the Nurse and Midwife 2020: 2020 has been designated by the World Health Organisation as the International Year of the Nurse and Midwife 2020, we will take time to celebrate our first-class nursing and midwifery departments and discuss how we can better support our nurses and midwives across the UK.
International Recruitment Toolkit: NHS Employers have developed a new toolkit designed to support colleagues involved in leading and delivering international recruitment in the NHS. This toolkit aims to encourage and enable good practices and processes for the recruitment of staff across a wide range of professions. Health providers can use this resource to plan their approach to overseas recruitment activity for the first time or to review the quality and efficiency of their existing practices and processes.
Improving workforce planning and intelligence: NHS Leeds Teaching Hospital developed and implemented an integrated workforce system with the aim of providing one source channel, which, was consistent and robust to support informed management decision-making. The programme had positive results and Leeds is currently working on the next steps and are developing a line manager portal to further improve data flows.
September’s Supporting Developing and Valuing Staff: NHS Workforce Congress will also host a Mental Health & Wellbeing panel debate, this will be an opportunity to get involved in the debate on wellbeing in the NHS workforce and what steps are needed to ensure we are building a happy and healthy workforce for future generations.
Attendance will provide delegates with the following benefits:
- Listen to the latest policy developments and live best practice sharing sessions
- Input directly to the discussions and panel debate sessions
- Take part in engaging and collaborative networking sessions with public sector peers from across multiple originations and regions
- Gain 6 CPD Points
- Meet with 5 innovative and strategically chosen commercial providers that are helping to drive innovation within the public sector
2nd Virtual NHS Workforce Congress: Supporting Developing and Valuing Staff
We are advising ALL attendees to attend the event via personal laptop or mobile device (Non-NHS Device)
We have noticed that NHS Devices are making it more difficult to view event content.
To maximise the chances of viewing content:
- Attend via a NON-NHS Device
- Attend the event via the Convenzis APP (where possible)
- Connect via your personal WI-FI (NON-NHS)
- Attend the online platform via the google chrome web browser
Who will Attend
- CEO’s
- Commissioning Directors
- COO’s
- Directors and Heads of Finance
- Directors and Heads of HR
- Directors and Heads of Medical Workforce
- Directors and Heads of Operations
- Directors and Heads of Strategy, Transformation and Workforce
- Directors and Heads of Workforce and Organisation
- Heads of Business
- Heads of Commissioning
- Heads of Learning and Development
- Heads of Training
- Hospital Directors
- Senior Management
Speakers
Sponsors & Partners
The Agenda
11:00
Registration & Networking
11:05
The @FlexNHS story to date and why the journey is far from over
Aasha Cowey
Programme Manager
NHS South, Central and West CSU
Kate Jarman
Director of Corporate Affairs
Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
@FlexNHS is a support & resource network to promote and enable flexible working in the NHS at every profession, role and grade. Since launching in Autumn 2018, mainly using social media channels, @FlexNHS has helped to change culture and stimulate lots of debate and discussion around flexible working in the NHS. Aasha and Kate will reflect on the journey so far, alongside setting out some ambition for the next two years. This will include why continuing to challenge perceptions and drive culture change is crucial for successful implementation of the NHS People Plan flexible working aspirations.
11:10
For the first time in a very long time: more kids want to become doctors and nurses than famous sports stars! Let’s not disappoint them!
Paul Pieterse
CEO
Prodqutive
As a result of the past few months, our Superheroes played such a vital role in our communities that a recent study of over 2,500 parents of children aged 16 and under, found that Doctors and Nurses top the career list, followed by social media influencers. That is all wonderful but we have much to do before they enter the training system! We need to ensure we make full and better use of our existing resources; fix the leaks in our training pipeline and then, make sure that our health service remains a world class employer where its people, yes the humans behind the PPE, continues to deliver a world-class health service…free at the point of need. The question is how and more to the point, exactly how can ProduQtive help your organisation?
11:30
Networking and Panel Discussions
12:00
Keeping yourself and your staff mentally fit in the workplace: why and how?
Libby Morley-Hassanali
MSc Workplace Health & Wellbeing, OHA, RGN, Owner Mindshift Consultancy, Temporary OHA during COVID 19
University Hospitals of Derby & Burton NHS Trust
In this session, Libby will use her background in commercial Occupational Health combined with her recent work supporting the return of NHS staff who have been shielding to provide some practical guidance on keeping yourself and your staff mentally fit in the workplace.
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
13:10
Hexitime, the Healthcare Skill Exchange Timebank
John Lodge
CEO
Hexitime
Dr Hesham Abdalla
Director of Quality Improvement and Medical Education
Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust
Do you want to effortlessly move human resources to where they are needed and move mindsets from competition to collaboration whilst increasing a sense of staff well being? Hexitime, is the first Healthcare Skill Exchange and Timebank and is designed to do all of these. It won overwhelming support from the Health Foundation Q Community in 2018 and now with 800 members is free to use for all Health and Social Care Staff. You can use it to enable staff to have meaningful connections around shared purpose and exchange knowledge and skills. Attend to learn how to use it yourself and get your colleagues on board.
13:30
Panel and Roundtable Discussions
14:00
Resilience in a long-running Major Incident – lessons learned
Dr Kate Jenkins
Clinical Psychologist
Salisbury District Hospital
I will present results from a staff survey conducted in 2019 in Salisbury, showing the psychological after-effects of (at that time) the longest-running Major Incident in NHS history. I will also present the format and outcomes of the Trust Resilience programme and discuss the possible mediating relationship between these two sets of results. Finally, I will examine lessons learned that may prove vital in the current circumstances.
14:20
Q&A, Prize Give Away & Close of Day
