Hello,
It’s
been a pretty significant week in terms of progress and developments. I
met with the staff side partnership officers on Monday and we had a very honest
discussion about their perspectives on what it’s like to work at the Trust and
the challenges faced by staff. It was good to hear from them and I am
encouraged that we will develop a good working relationship. I consider
that our Partnership Officers have a critical role within the organisation and
I value hugely their contribution and role that the Joint Negotiating and
Consultation Committee plays. To this end, I will be attending a development
session with the Joint Negotiating and Consultation Committee (JNCC) members
next week and will endeavour to attend future JNCC meetings.
I
also met with Lisa Ryder, our Freedom to Speak Up Guardian on Monday.
Lisa’s role is about supporting staff to raise and handle issues effectively
and helping create a culture of openness where staff are encouraged to speak
up, lessons are learnt and care improves as a result. I was very assured
by Lisa’s approach to the role and would encourage staff to get in touch with
her if they had any concerns they wanted to raise in confidence and didn’t feel
able to raise through other routes.
I
also spent time meeting with over 60 of our medical consultants as part of
their away day this week. It was an opportunity to share some of my
emergent thoughts with them and test what we need to do for the future.
This particularly included the need to strengthen clinical and professional
leadership. In order to build a clinically-led organisation, we need to
have visible and strong clinical leaders and the appetite from the consultant
body to support this was great. Thanks for inviting me, I enjoyed talking
with you!
I
mentioned last week that the board would be taking some time out to focus on
the Trust’s future strategy. We started the session on Wednesday
afternoon and Jon Rouse, Chief Officer of the Greater Manchester Health and
Social Care Partnership, joined us to give an overview of the direction for
Greater Manchester and explore with us Pennine Care’s future role within the
system.
We
then spent all of Thursday considering our future direction
and organisational development priorities. After a lot of hard work we are
really starting to see things come together now. We will need further
work to develop and refine things and then we are planning to hold some
staff engagement sessions in the New Year to test our thinking out with staff
and give you an opportunity to help shape our direction of travel. Watch
this space for more detailed information about this important agenda.
I’ll
be ending the week today (Friday) by meeting with Theresa Grant, Chief
Executive of Trafford Council, to discuss how things are going in Trafford and
exchange ideas.
So
all in all it’s been a pretty packed week but I can see that things are really
starting to take shape now.
Thanks
as ever for reading,
Claire
Claire
Molloy
Chief
Executive
T:
@ClaireMolloy2
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