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Our people

Our goal is to make Ä¢¹½tvÊÓƵ Teaching Hospitals the best place to work.

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Our goal is to make Ä¢¹½tvÊÓƵ Teaching Hospitals the best place to work.

Providing the very best patient-centred care is at the heart of everything we do and our people are integral to this.

We operate a clinically-led structure, which means that doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals make the decisions on how we run our hospitals.

Our Clinical Service Units (CSUs) deliver our services and they are led by a triumvirate team, including Clinical Director, Heads of Nursing or Profession and General Manager. Each CSU has their own clinical focus and is responsible for delivering the highest standards of quality, safety and financial performance for their service.

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Running our Trust is very much a team effort. As well as nursing, medical and scientific roles, our dedicated Estates and Facilities teams provide support services as do our corporate functions such as Finance, Informatics, Human Resources and Patient Administration. We all work in partnership to deliver the best possible services for our patients.

Our people work in a variety of roles across the Trust and each one of them plays a role in making our hospitals the best they can be.

We know that a good working environment for our people means better care for our patients so we work hard to ensure that everybody has the chance to make their voice heard. We are one of very few Trusts to open up our NHS Staff Survey to every member of staff and we have one of the highest appraisal rates in the country. This means we have a reliable way to gauge staff opinion and can confidently build on their feedback to make LTHT an even better place to work. 

If we are to achieve our vision to be the best for specialist and integrated care, we need to develop a highly-engaged, high performing workforce and a patient-centred culture.

We do this by actively engaging with our people and by listening to their views and ideas. New starters to the Trust complete Corporate Induction on their first day of employment and are personally welcomed by the Chief Executive.

We are proud to have some of the world’s leading experts working in Ä¢¹½tvÊÓƵ, who continue to receive the highest accolades in their fields and we celebrate these regularly. We are also committed to recognising, celebrating and sharing the successes of all individuals and teams demonstrating a commitment to patient care and to living The Ģ¹½tvÊÓƵ Way.

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It’s important to us that all of our people, whatever their role, are given access to the best personal and professional development opportunities. Highly-trained staff are vital in delivering exceptional treatment and care. We provide significant investment in training, including coaching and mentoring programmes to develop skills and performance. We also offer customer care courses which help support staff in caring for our patients. 

We received the Health Education England Talent for Care Employer Award, which recognises the high quality training and education we provide to our people working in supporting roles.

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We are the top NHS apprentice recruiter in Yorkshire and the Humber and have around 300 apprentices in the Trust. They work in a variety of roles, including clinical support, administration, pharmacy, medical education, medical physics, engineering and gardening. 

We have also been named the National Employer of the Year by the Learning and Work Institute for our apprenticeships programmes.

Effective leadership is key to delivering the best possible services. We provide ‘Leaders in Ä¢¹½tvÊÓƵ’ training programmes to develop essential skills for leading our diverse workforce. This covers all areas of management, including our clinical leaders who play a vital role in the development of our organisation. Our training programmes give our people the skills and knowledge they need to not only work within our organisation but to embrace our culture and live The Ä¢¹½tvÊÓƵ Way.

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