Southport and Ormskirk Hospital NHS Trust

Objectives

• Enable the Trust to understand the current workforce position including their SIP, Establishment, vacancy rates, worked FTEs over time and turnover by staff groups
• Support the region in their aim of shaping care together
• Assess the risk now, and using projections and benchmarks, around their workforce when it comes to services.

What we did

• We collated and analysed all local sources of data, carefully working through reconciling leger and ESR into comprehensive data view of the entire workforce of the hospital.
• We used national data and created mapping, analysed the position against high performing peers to underpin any significant gaps.
• We gave a forecasted position using this alongside HEE growth projections, as part of a heat map approach and then dovetailed this with local risk assessments and engagement to form a rounded view of workforce risk
• Published a detailed report, by service area, detailing the above and making recommendations for how the risk areas might be approached.

Our Impact

• The report was used across the area to form the basis for conversations regarding the staff profiles in at risk areas
• Led to a larger review, including activity and estates modelling, so that those workforce findings could be correlated with overall risk and solutions
• The adoption of different role types and staffing models to underpin some of the more challenged areas across the hospital