Nurses Day! - Birmingham Children's Hospital

Striving to make it even better
Every member of staff working for Birmingham Children’s Hospital will be a champion for
children and young people.
We are incredibly proud of our staff at Birmingham
Children’s Hospital who day in, day out, deliver
outstanding patient care to our children, young
people and families.
This year has seen the launch of our People
Strategy which sets out to staff how we will support
them now and in the future, bringing together four
key areas:
1. Developing our People
Our staff have established an outstanding
reputation for care and innovative advances in
research, teaching and technology in Birmingham,
the West Midlands, UK and overseas.
We offer excellent education with robust
frameworks to assure the quality of delivery and
assessment. Our portfolio includes accreditation
status for the Institute of Leadership and
Management and our own Vocational Centre
– BCH Live - where we provide access to
apprenticeships for new and existing staff. During
the year we have also expanded our range of
e-learning materials enabling staff to access
learning more flexibly.
We continue to create and embed a culture of
continuous learning so that all staff have the
opportunity to reach their full potential while
enabling us to develop new roles and ways of
working.
2. Managing our People
We have continued to grow our workforce
throughout the year in line with the increased
demand for our services and have redesigned the
way some are delivered so that staff feel more
satisfied about the contribution they make.
We currently employ 3,330 people and at the end
of March 2013 our staff turnover rate was 7.95% -
well within our target of 9%.
Through the Business Planning processes we
have reviewed each service and anticipated where
potential changes in supply and demand of staff
may impact on us in the future. For example, over
the next two years we plan to invest in Nurse
Practitioner roles as we know the number of junior
doctors will reduce in the coming years. This means
we need to consider how we deliver our core
business in alternative ways to ensure our patients
and families continue to get the very best health
care and support.
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Involving staff in changes to the workplace has
been a key focus this year. Our 2012 NHS Staff
Survey showed that we are improving, with 54%
of staff who responded agreeing that they feel
involved in changes that affect their work/area and
department, compared to 46% in 2011.
We have spent this year perfecting a prerecruitment
assessment tool which assesses the
values and behaviours of prospective applicants
who want to work at the hospital, ensuring that
they are well suited and display behaviours
which are aligned to our values. This involved
around 200 staff who took part in workshops and
questionnaires to develop the assessment process
which will begin in April 2013.
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