Workforce Report
Lifeline’s Core Development Themes are:
| Theme One: | Services |
| Theme Two: | Governance: Viability and Accountability, Safety and Quality |
| THEME THREE: | WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT |
| Theme Four: | Learning and Engagement |
Workforce Development
Lifeline’s workforce already operates with a high level of skill, commitment and ability. Our strategic review seeks to consolidate and further develop that resource, and focus our efforts ever more on enhancing our first class workforce.
Our aim:
To implement a range of policies programmes and practices designed to develop a workforce whose skills, commitment and energies stand out as our organisations key resource and asset.
Our commitment:
Lifeline is committed to the widespread communication and dissemination of our strategic goals across the workforce, and to stimulating the widest participation in strategic management on the part of our workforce by embedding this capability at every level.
Lifeline is committed to the continuous professional development of every worker and volunteer. This development process will incorporate selection, induction, supervision and appraisal process designed to facilitate high levels of consensus, commitment and flexibility on the part of our workforce.
Working together:
Lifeline pulls people at all levels together to work on projects, train and consult. We aim to increase this activity over the coming year. Many of our services routinely involve service users in interviewing, and have a number of pathways into training and employment for people who move through our services. We work with local and national trainers, expert groups and peer educators. We work alongside people with significant experience in other sectors, to ensure we look beyond our own objectives and maintain strategic partnerships to benefit individuals and communities.
Working in partnership:
The diversity of our service profile means that we have a workforce very equipped to work in partnership. Many of our best partnerships have been forged at a grassroots level, working with other statutory and third sector organisations, and we value the work of our front line staff ever more. Those efforts help us to gain better outcomes for people, and outcomes that make sense to their own lives and futures. That is what we are here to do.