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Home > About us > Our strategy > Our strategic direction > Our strategic aims > Build a safe, supportive and inclusive culture together.

Build a safe, supportive and inclusive culture together.

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Our leaders create a compassionate, inclusive and supportive workplace culture, where everyone has a voice, can be at their best and is supported to improve and develop.

  • Attraction and welcome

Attract and retain a representative workforce with effective onboarding and sustained support.

  • Leadership and management

Develop confident and inclusive leaders with the skills and tools to lead through complexity; use digital tools to release time.

  • Developing for the future

Develop high quality, accessible opportunities for career development and progression, supported by high-quality education and CPD, embrace future roles and changing care delivery models.

  • Wellbeing, culture and inclusion

Develop an inclusive, supportive and safe culture across the employee lifecycle.

  • Listening and involvement

Staff and learners are active partners in improving how we work and the care we provide.

  • Attraction and welcome

Increase in ethnic minority representation to 10% workforce, reduce Workforce Race Equality Standard (WRES) shortlisting to appointment indicator to below 1.25, streamlined recruitment processes and improved retention in first year of appointment.

  • Leadership and management 

Increased levels of representation of women and ethnic minorities in leadership positions, staff survey leadership scores in top 3 in sector, 90% compliance with leadership induction, increased uptake of coaching and mentoring.

  • Developing for the future 

Ofsted exceptional rating for 3 out of 5 standards, staff survey ‘We are always learning theme’ in top 3 in sector, learning evaluation measures, traffic to learning hub increased.

Wellbeing, culture and inclusion

NHS Staff Survey ‘We are Safe and Healthy’ theme and experience of negative behaviours in top 3 in sector; absence reduced to 5%, improving staff safety culture and narrowing of Workforce Race Equality Standard (WRES) and Workforce Disability Equality Standard (WDES) staff experience indicators to below 5%.

  • Listening and involvement 

NHS Staff Survey ‘Engagement’ and ‘Morale’ themes in top 3 in sector, continuous improvement in learner feedback.

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  • Build a safe, supportive and inclusive culture together.

  • Deliver a responsive care model through partnerships.

  • Embed continuous improvement and innovation for a sustainable future.


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