Effective Job Planning

Introduction to the training day

The job plan review

No longer just an annual 1-hour meeting

The timing of the job plan review should be linked to the following:

• Trust business plan cycle

• Consultant appraisal

• Corporate objective setting

• Service planning and team objective setting

Purpose of the job plan review

Consider what has affected the job plan

Consider progress against the agreed objectives

Agree any changes to duties and responsibilities

Agree a plan for achieving personal objectives

Agree support needed from the organisations

Review relationship with other paid work, including private practice.

Purpose of the day

To provide for those involved in the job planning process

• A set of tools which may help enhance the quality of the job plan

• An opportunity to discuss how best to link job planning with other trust responsibilities, such as business planning, corporate objective setting

• An opportunity to share in the development of the local consultant job planning process

Content of the day

5 sessions:

Setting the context

Effective use of data in job planning

Objective setting

Achieving the benefits of effective job planning

Negotiating skills