9.00       Chair’s opening remarks – Annesley Donald, Deputy Director of Workforce, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Trust and HPMA VP East of England

9.10       Opening address: Dean Royles, HPMA President

9.30       Keynote: Prerana Issar, Chief People Officer, NHS England and NHS Improvement

10.00    How we can use technology to build a better people profession
              Andy Spence, workforce futurist, global speaker, writer, HR Technology Board Advisor

10.30     Break

10.45     David Miller, NHS Scotland Chief People Officer

11.15     Panel: The Four day working week – is it the future?

Aasha Cowey, Strategic Transformation Lead, Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust and Co-Founder, FlexNHS

Mike Cavaye, Director of Digital Strategy & Transformation (CIO), Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Dean Royles, HPMA President

12.00    Roujin Ghamsari, Deputy Director of People – Professional Development, NHS England and NHS Improvement

12.25     Lunch

13.00     Stream breakout sessions – delegates choose one

Breakout sessions:

Stream: Health & wellbeing (stream sponsor SAP):

• How the NHS can support staff in times of crisis and develop a resilient workforce, Coppelia Rose, Global SAP Healthcare and life sciences leader, DXC Technology

It is agreed that, now almost 2 years into the pandemic, the NHS & the healthcare workforce has been exposed to higher levels of stress than ever before. Supporting wellbeing is rising to the top of the priority list, but it can be challenging. What help is there for the NHS & healthcare organisations to better support their staff through difficult times & build resilience? We will discuss some of the ways these challenges can be reduced & the benefits to the healthcare workforce.

Stream: Developing our people & employee experience (stream sponsor CMP):

• #DoingOurBit, Julie Davis, Deputy Chief Operating Officer at the Clinical Research Network West Midlands & 2021 HPMA Awards winner

Stream: Leading improvement & digitally enabled solutions (stream sponsor Allocate):

• Working kinder and smarter, not harder: Dr Hesham Abdalla, Head of Integrated Quality Improvement, Oxford University Hospitals; Co-founder, Hexitime and John Lodge, Hexitime Co-founder and NHS Head of Quality Improvement (London)

We are entering into what is anticipated to be the toughest ever winter for the NHS. The system is already at capacity with queues of ambulances waiting to offload patients as one of the most visual examples of this. Moreover, staff are already exhausted and demoralised and capacity is anticipated to dwindle further with sickness and staff leaving the profession.  Can we increase the capacity of staff by giving them the resources they need and can we release their discretionary effort? Timebanking is an innovative and elegant solution to both of these.

Hexitime is the first professionals’ timebank that connects colleagues across health and social care and facilitates the matching of supply and demand on a peer to peer basis. On Hexitime, staff ask and offer help based on their own perceived deficits and individual assets and thereby simply and quickly match supply and demand. This is elegant and scalable and because of the time credit system, it takes money off the table and allows resources and information to flow in new and innovative ways. Secondly, as skill exchanges on Hexitime are not limited by the grade of the individual providing it, equity is embedded. Staff can then escape role shaped boxes, discovering and growing their hidden skills and talents. Finally, by connecting up your organisation and rewarding people helping people, moves mindsets from competition to collaboration.

Come to this experiential session on…. to learn more and learn how you, your team and your organisation can participate and benefit.

14.00     The role of leadership in staff development

Elizabeth Nyawade, Chief of People and Culture, Surrey and Sussex NHS Trust & Deputy Director of the Year 2021

14.30     HPMA – Our people profession into the future
Nicky Ingham, HPMA Executive Director

14.50     Chair’s close of day one followed at 3pm by Event Partner Salary Finance session:

Creating an inclusive financial wellbeing programme for your people 

Zarina Sahni, Head of Content & Research and Jason Butler, Head of Financial Education, Salary Finance, chaired by Nicky Ingham, HPMA Executive Director

15.45     Platform closes

9.00       Platform opens for networking

9.30      An Introduction to Laughter Yoga – for the Health of It with Sara Kay, Wellbeing & Laughter Yoga Professional Encourager

9.50       Chair’s welcome: Craig de Sousa, HPMA London Vice-President and Systems Resourcing Director, NHS England

10.00   Keynote: Jenni Douglas-Todd, Joint Director of Equality & Inclusion at NHS England and NHS Improvement

10.30     Health workforce policies and the pandemic: An international  Perspective: Professor James Buchan, Senior visiting fellow, at the Health Foundation’s REAL Centre and Adjunct Professor, University Technology, Sydney

11.00     Jaco van Gass, adventurer, world champion para-cyclist and motivational speaker

11.30     Break

11.45     Stream break- out sessions – delegates choose one

Stream: Health & wellbeing (stream sponsor SAP):

• Continuing to promote wellbeing in a crisis: Dr Helen Fitzhugh, Norwich Business School, University of East Anglia

Stream: Developing our people & employee experience (stream sponsor CMP):

• Understanding Psychological Safety  Penny Newton-Hurley, Associate Practitioner, CMP

CMP are accredited by The Fearless Organization to undertake the Psychological Safety Index™ scan (PSI), to assess the current levels of Psychological Safety within a team, and facilitate its improvement and development.  Assessing the current levels of Psychological Safety within an intact team, can help team members see the need for interpersonal ‘soft’ skills, and support their leaders and team members to develop. Those who have read Professor Amy Edmondson’s book “The Fearless Organization” will know that psychological safety is required for team high-performance. Psychological safety is defined as “a belief that one will not be punished or humiliated for speaking up with ideas, questions, concerns, or mistakes.” At CMP, it’s always been our ambition to create workplaces where people can really be authentic, bringing their ‘whole self’ to work, without the fear of conflict or reprisal. To us, this is Psychological Safety, and this is the prime reason for our Partnership with the Fearless Organization.  This session will be looking at this in more depth, with a Q&A

Stream: Leading improvement & digitally enabled solutions (stream sponsor Allocate):

• Exploring our role in using anchor approaches to being a better employer William Roberts, Head of Health and Social Care, The Innovation Unit:

William will explore the work he has been leading around Anchor Institutions in the NHS and how NHS Anchors can use their opportunity as an employer to support their staff and tackle inequalities using examples from the Health Anchors Learning Network (HALN).

12.45     Lunch

13.30   Stream break-out sessions – delegates choose one

Stream: Health & wellbeing (stream sponsor SAP):

• Toxic Heroism: are we valuing others at the expense of ourselves: Richard Burnell, Organisational and People Development specialist, Sandwell & West Birmingham NHS Trust & HPMA Rising Star 2021

Stream: Developing our people & employee experience (stream sponsor CMP):

• Audience with the pioneers of #inclusiveHR Cheryl Samuels, Deputy Director of Workforce Transformation, NHS England, Rachael Tyler, Development Director, HPMA London Academy,David Grantham, Chief People Officer, University Hospitals Sussex, NHS Foundation Trust                                        Manal Sadik, Associate Director, Equality Diversity and Inclusion and Widening Partnership, Guys and St Thomas’ NHS Trust

The session will highlight the positive actions and interventions being led by the pioneers, advocates and allies of the #inclusiveHR movement for change, to improve equality, diversity and inclusion for the HR and OD profession. The session will take the form of an inquisitive conversation between the speakers to bring to life the personal and collective motivations, actions, aspirations and ambitions for this programme of work. The speakers will reflect on how the social inequalities present in the fabric of our society are reflected in the experiences of our black, Asian and ethnic minority HR and OD colleagues and how the actions being taken forward are intended to address such experiences. The audience will be invited to ask questions of the speaker panel and provide feedback on how the actions can gain wider traction across the NHS and the HR/OD profession.

Stream: Leading improvement & digitally enabled solutions (stream sponsor Allocate):

• Time to rewrite the narrative on workforce policy management, chaired by  Liz Jones CMO Allocate Software with panellists
• Michelle Horridge – Registrar in Public Health
• Raffaela Goodby – Chief People Officer, Birmingham Women’s and Children’s Hospital
• Rekel Kerr – Health Inequalities Lead for the National Paediatric Accelerator. Head of Physiotherapy & Orthotics. Chair of Inclusion, Diversity & Equality in Action (IDEA), Birmingham Women’s and Children’s Hospital

14.15     Effective Leadership in the new work order: Juliette Alban-Metcalfe, Chartered Occupational Psychologist, CEO, Real World Group and adjunct associate professor at the Centre for Sustainable Business and Enterprise, University of Southern Queensland, Australia

14.45    People Matter-reflections on a lifetime in HR in the NHS: Kelvin Cheatle, Director of Workforce, Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust & 2021 recipient of the President’s Award for Outstanding Achievement

15.15     Chair’s closing remarks