Find out about the sessions on offer at this year's Leading workforce thinking conference. We are continuing to develop the programme and further sessions will be added as details become available. Session bookings will open shortly, so please check back regularly.
Please note: Session bookings are not yet open. If you have already booked a place at the conference you will be contacted as soon as session bookings are open.
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Effectively engaging your workforce
The NHS has got talent!
Shaping the strategic future for HR
Values and Pledges - the local challenge
Working out workforce
Future proof - understanding and nurturing talent
Masterclass: Leadership lessons - is the military a model for the NHS?
Making the most of the staff survey
Masterclass: What type of leadership does the NHS need?
Can partnership work in challenging times?
Collaborative working
Effectively engaging your workforce
Wednesday 4 November 09:00 – 11:00 (2 hours)
Benefit from the proven success of an award-winning council and a trust with excellent 2008 staff survey results, among others, in this interactive marketplace. No matter which type of organisation you’re in, you’ll learn how to empower and motivate your workforce to deliver better quality services for patients.
The NHS has got talent!
Wednesday 4 November 09:00 – 11:00 (2 hours)
The NHS is facing increasing demands. One way of meeting these is through effective talent management. So how can an NHS organisation turn its talent management plan into a vehicle for real change at a local level? This energetic, highly interactive session will give delegates the opportunity to hear from trusts and strategic health authority areas that have already implemented different and innovative approaches and share in their learning.
Shaping the strategic future for HR
Wednesday 4 November 09:30 – 11:00 (90 minutes)
The role of the HR director is increasingly a leadership and strategic one. Hear the latest thinking from Pricewaterhouse Coopers and Solace Enterprises and find out, for the first time, what healthcare chief executives think are the key issues for workforce now, and in the next three to four years.
Values and pledges – the local challenge
Wednesday 4 November 09:30 – 11:00 (90 minutes)
The Government has set out its national values for the health service in the NHS Constitution but how do you make these meaningful locally? Working with their staff, many employers have developed their own local values that fit their needs. At this session you’ll hear from some of these trusts on what they did and how it is making a difference.
Working out workforce
Wednesday 4 November 09:30 – 11:00 (90 minutes)
Financial pressures will mean important challenges and tough decisions over the next few years. Robust workforce planning will be critical to the delivery of high quality patient care. During this session, you will hear about the latest tools and technology from the NHS Institute, the Information Centre and Skills for Health to support you in the testing times ahead.
Future proof – understanding and nurturing new talent
Wednesday 4 November 11:30 – 12:45 (75 minutes)
Generation Y refers to those born after 1980. This generation has very different expectations about what they want from work, as well as having new skills to offer. Getting the best out of this group will require greater understanding about preferred management, communication and development styles. In this tailored interactive session you will hear from the experts and find out what other organisations are doing to nurture and retain new talent in the NHS, through the recession and beyond.
Masterclass: Leadership lessons: is the military a model for the NHS?
Wednesday 4 November 11:30 – 12:30 (1 hour)
Like the NHS, the British Army is a highly complex organisation employing a wide range of professional staff to meet multiple challenges. This masterclass will look at how the NHS can learn from the army’s world class leadership training in order to develop its own great leaders.
Making the most of the staff survey
Wednesday 4 November 13:30 – 14:30 (1 hour)
With a sample of 1.3 million, the NHS staff survey is the largest opinion poll in the UK and the most reliable barometer of how your staff feel about their job. But are you really using your results to instil change and improve working lives? Find out how to make the most of the survey and explore what other organisations are doing. You’ll also hear about changes to the survey in 2010.
Masterclass: What type of leadership does the NHS need?
Wednesday 4 November 14:15 – 15:30 (75 minutes)
The NHS faces massive leadership challenges from raising productivity to improving services. What type of leadership does the NHS need to meet these challenges? This session looks at how the NHS can engage staff and develop talent at all levels, whether management competencies are the right way forward, and what sort of leadership skills will staff need.
Can partnership work in challenging times?
Wednesday 4 November 14:45 – 15:45 (1 hour)
Social partnership working has many proven benefits, including better quality services for patients and improved staff engagement. This session features the winner of this year’s Healthcare People Management Association award for partnership, the West Belfast and Greater Shankill Health Employment Partnership, on how it is tackling health and social inequalities within its community.
Collaborative working
Thursday 6 November 10:30 - 11:30 (1 hour)
Looking at emerging evidence from the implementation of new approaches to collaborative working in the NHS and other sectors, this session will help you discover new concepts to apply in your own workplace.
Please note: The programme may change due to unforeseen circumstances. NHS Employers retains the right to change the programme and/or speakers at short notice and will endeavour to update you when and if this happens.