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Help with your appraisal
BMJ Learning has produced a series of modules in association with the London Deanery to help you with your appraisal.
East Cheshire NHS Trust rolls out HR Vision with 6pm
Times of Malta
East Cheshire’s NHS Trust has entrusted IT company 6pm to rollout its HR Vision Business Process Management solution.
Developed by 6pm, HR Vision is based on the world-beating xCP BPM platform by EMC, and has more than 20 processes already developed for human resources including recruitment, appraisal and changes in contractual circumstances, allowing HR teams and service managers to track their cases online. The solution complements applications already used in human resources by managing the business process more effectively.
“Not only will the initial processes enable us to organise our workload much more efficiently, we will have the ability in-house to add more processes to further streamline the operation and provide a more cost efficient HR service to our customers,” Cheshire HR Services managing director Sally Campbell said. “We expect to see the return on investment in the first 12 months.”
From Radcliffe Publishing
In this issue of Mastering Management in Healthcare, it looks at the second of two areas that tend to provoke anxiety in managers old and new – giving feedback to staff and colleagues.
It is worth noting that most of us actually want to know how we are doing, and we look for opportunities to have our work recognised. As long as the process is handled with respect and dignity we don’t even seem to mind being told where we might need to improve. However, recent research shows that of the 77% of NHS staff in England who have access to appraisal, just over a third of those feel it is well structured and leaves them feeling valued(1). Judging by this, there still seems to be a barrier to giving good feedback.
In this issue:
This article is all about developing you and your staff. The advice is kept as practical as possible and include things that you can apply immediately. The intention is to try and provoke you to think differently about how you manage and encourage you to innovate and experiment.
A common challenge facing clinicians entering management roles is how to conduct appraisals for the staff now reporting to them. Quite apart from practical issues such as finding the time and an appropriate environment, the employer may also have a particular format to follow, and the whole process can end up looking like one big distraction from the main objective – providing care.
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