Our staff are our most important resource. We have a committed and dedicated workforce that provides excellent services to our communities on a daily basis.
Local government can be a challenging environment in which to work, but the satisfaction of providing good quality local services is rewarding. Our staff are the backbone on which we are able to deliver to a consistent high quality. In return for the commitment of our staff the authority is committed to their development and support.
We expect certain behaviours of our staff, and in return they expect to work in an environment that nurtures their development and provides them with the support they need to do their jobs more effectively, and that recognises the contribution they make.
We have excellent work life balance policies, including a generous flexible working scheme. We have recently adopted a set of agile working principles which will not only be of value to staff, but will also provide the potential to rationalise buildings through new ways of working.
The emerging transformation programme will mean that we will need to change the ways in which we support staff to deliver services. The relationship between staff and their managers will need to be upportive and based on a continuous conversation. Staff will need to be equipped with the right skills to underpin the new ways of working and in some cases staff will need to be retrained to undertake different roles in the Council.
We will review our Staff Appraisal Process and introduce a new Workforce Development Strategy: Better Together, a key component of which will be a robust training and development programme, including leadership and management development, to ensure that we have the right mix of skills and abilities to meet the needs of the Council in the future.
| KEY ACTIONS | TIMESCALE |
|---|---|
| Performance Development Review process to be reviewed | 30th September 2019 |
| Workforce Development Strategy: Better Together to be finalised and approved by Cabinet | 31st January 2020 |