Innovative Workforce Strategies for Neonatal Services
About This Event
SBK's 2012 Neonatal Service Conference and networking event for NHS Professionals.
How to analyse and develop your workforce to safeguard your staff, save on costs and manage shortfalls over the next 5 years
Get your workforce plan right to enable your service to thrive in this cost saving climate.
Meet your trust’s cost improvement demands by reflecting on your workforce at this unique one day event. Make an investment into your neonatal service with your attendance at this conference and take away the tools needed to implement key changes that will see you conquer staff shortages and gain real cost saving results over the next 5 years.
Attend this key event to help you achieve a first class, cost effective workforce:
• Network with other trusts to benchmark your workforce plans
• Reduce absenteeism, heighten morale and overcome recruitment freezes
• Improve your integrated care and drive forward quality
• Work together to derive the best practice use of support workers
• Develop pathways to upskill your current staff and reduce costs
• Identify ways in which you can use HCAs and lower banded staff effectively
This timely event will enable you, as a neonatal professional, to reassess your service and your workforce deployment. Hear from other Neonatal Consultants, Service Managers, Matrons and Heads of Service from trusts around the country on how they are meeting cost reduction targets and staff shortages with innovative workforce strategies.
Now is the time to stand back, take a look at your neonatal service and see if your workforce can work better for you:
Learn by observation: hear innovative techniques of how to assess your service from the ‘shop floor’
Keep your service staffed: how to overcome natural wastage, absenteeism and dwindling morale
Extend the remit of roles: get lower banded staff to deliver advanced clinical skills to save money
Understanding the composition and potential of your team: expand the role of the nursery nurse
Drive forward change: get the buy-in of your staff to deliver savings by involving them in the process