A great place to work
Sherwood Forest Hospitals Trust remains one of the best NHS organisations in the country to work for according its own staff, with the Trust also retaining its crown as the Midlands’ best to work at for an incredible sixth year.
The results of the annual NHS National Staff Survey that were announced in March 2024 revealed that 74.45% of Trust staff recommended the organisation as a place to work. That result places the Trust third among all NHS organisations nationally as a place where staff recommend working.
This April, the Trust's new five year strategy came into effect.
The strategy sets out our vision and how we plan to deliver outstanding care, provided by compassionate people, enabling healthier communities and improving lives. In the next five years, we want to be known as an outstanding local hospital that consistently delivers quality services for our patients.
We will achieve this by delivering consistently outstanding care by compassionate people who feel enabled and supported to do their best by Sherwood Forest Hospitals.
To deliver our vision, we have set out 6 strategic objectives.
- To provide outstanding care in the best place at the right time.
- To empower and support our people to be the best they can be.
- To improve health and well-being within our communities.
- To continuously learn and improve.
- To use resource and estate in a sustainable manner.
- To work collaboratively with partners in our local community.
We’re proud of what we’ve already achieved and how we’ve achieved it. We are a great place to work and have an exciting future ahead of us. We would like you to be part of it.
Specialist, Associate Specialist and Specialty (SAS) doctors and locally-employed doctors are a growing and vital part of our workforce. This group contains a large number of international medical graduates, who have chosen to bring their expertise to SFH, and who provide an enormous amount of patient care to our local population. We know that these doctors do not always have all the support that other groups have to progress their careers, and we wish to change this.
We are therefore proud to announce we have decided to implement the SAS six in our approach to our SAS and locally-employed doctors going forwards.
The SAS six principles are:
- Every early career SAS doctor should have access to an educational supervisor.
- All SAS doctors should have equity of access to professional development opportunities relevant to their stage of career.
- All specialty doctors who meet the required capabilities should have the opportunity to become specialists.
- Senior SAS doctors should be offered the opportunity to be educators at every level on a par with consultants e.g. educational supervisors, clinical supervisors, directors of medical education.
- All extended roles in leadership and management should be open to all substantive medical staff that is, consultants and appropriately experienced SAS doctors.
- All LEDs employed for more than two years within one NHS employer should be offered the opportunity to transfer to the appropriate SAS contract.
The SAS six campaign has now been endorsed or supported by the HCSA, Medical Protection, the Association of Anaesthetists, the Royal College of Anaesthetists, the Royal College of Physicians, Medical Education Leaders UK and the Medical Women's Federation. Multiple other Trusts have also recent implemented or agreed to implement these principles, and we look forward to sharing learning with them on our journey.
We commit to working with SAS doctors and their representatives within the Trust to make these principles a reality for doctors working at SFH.
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