22 RESOURCING SERVICE CHOICES PROCESS - HR SERVICE PDF 92 KB
Report by Executive Director – Customer Services
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A report was considered which set out issues and proposed solutions to supporting the Council and it’s employees through the process of Service Choices.
Decision
The Committee –
1.
Noted the
additional work generated for HR by the Service Choices process and the
inability for the service to deliver all of this additional work from existing
resources. The professional advice and support will continue to be delivered
from within existing HR resources, but there is a need to augment the
administrative resources. This will be done by utilising wider Departmental
funding.
2.
Noted
that the additional resources can be funded from the existing 2015-16 Customer
Services departmental forecast underspend, and agreed that the budget to be
earmarked and the balance permitted to be carried forward to fund the
additional posts for a maximum of 2 years. This will allow the HR service to
support the administrative elements of the service choices process. Earmarked
balances are routinely monitored and any balance no longer required would be
returned to the General Fund Reserve.
3.
Agreed
that the Year 2 savings of up to 25% for IHR, which involve the full
implementation of service redesign, creating an integrated team that puts
people at the heart of performance, are profiled for year 3 to ensure that the
service has sufficient resource to support the organisation through the
significant change of Service Choices in Years 1 and 2.
4. Agreed that the Service Choices proposal set out
in Appendix 2 is accelerated for immediate implementation, noting that this
will put in place a transitional structure that is equipped to support the
organisation through Years 1 and 2 of Service Choices.
(Reference: Report by Executive Director – Customer
Services dated 22 July 2015, submitted)
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