12IA – Duty to ensure appropriate staffing
The NHS Golden Jubilee position with this duty is substantial. This overarching duty ensures that effective processes are in place to ensure the right workforce is on hand to support the delivery of safe, effective, high-quality, patient care.
Workforce planning in NHS Golden Jubilee takes place at professional, multi-disciplinary and operational level. There is a Workforce Planning Strategy in place for the Board.
Where a gap is identified, clinical managers can highlight this at the site wide safety huddle. Associated mitigation and solutions are identified.
Initiatives in place to support this duty include:
- Recruitment and retention initiatives.
- Real time staffing- dynamic oversight from clinical managers and inclusion of all relevant professions at the twice daily huddle.
- Quality and safety metrics.
- Patient and staff feedback through various routes.
