Investing in People Organisation

Objective

  To be an excellent organisation. Generating success for Derby Homes and residents by helping Board members and employees to give their best, enabling them to work across boundaries, developing their skills.

Initiatives

  Ensure the employees of Derby Homes have a wide range of skills and experience through the delivery of our comprehensive training and development strategy.
  Encourage input from staff through team meetings, away days, updates, staff conference and generating a wide range of views and ideas fed into the action plans of the organisation.
  Effective communication with staff and staff representatives.
  Induction programme, away days, training programmes and appraisals planned for 2007/08.
  Develop a communications strategy which will embrace internal and external communications including clearly defined protocols around consultation.
  Agree an action plan following the staff survey by June 2007.
 
Importance of this work

  Staff have a central role in the delivery of our services and we will only succeed as a service organisation through our staff. To this end we aim to ensure we develop a positive workforce.

Targets

  Retain IIP through 2006-11 to include the work life balance standard.
  Improve level of staff morale as measured by two-yearly staff surveys compared with results of 2002 and 2006 surveys to produce action plan by September 2007.
  Levels of attendance to be below the BVPI targets of 9 days absence during 2007/08.
  Attain ROSPA gold award by 2008 and retain 2009-11, and support effective working of the staff Health and Safety forum.
  Employ a workforce that is representative of the community we serve by achieving targets for employment of groups 2006-11.
  Creation of communications strategy by September 2007.