Shropshire hospital bosses are looking at ways of providing flexible shifts for staff in a bid to reduce the number of vacancies and retain their current employees.
The paper was considered at a meeting of Shrewsbury & Telford Hospital NHS Trust's board.
“We have a flagship programme around flexibility and it’s encouraging that more people are being afforded it. We still have a way to go with mindsets around flexibility, there are still nurses leaving because they’ve not been afforded flexibility in their shifts. A bi-annual staffing report considered at the meeting on Thursday said: “Even though recruitment has been successful there still remains a high number of staff wanting the flexibility of bank and would prefer to work for temporary staffing and as such, despite recruitment, overall vacancy reduction does not reflect numbers appointed. Opportunities to offer flexible opportunities to staff and encourage movement into a substantive post should be maximised.
The highest number of leavers across all areas by length of service is in the two to five-year bracket. “It’s important that people who join us know that the job does involve such things as working with people at their extremes of vulnerability.
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