Appraisals, Coaching & HR for PMs - Audio & Video Podcasts and Recorded Webinars

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Bite-Size for Managers - Safer Recruitment

Fiona Smith from Kraft HR Consulting Ltd will lead this HR Bite Size for Practice Management on Safer Recruitment. Fiona will be joined by Jane Dawes, one of our PM Supporters who will assist the session by making it practical and relevant to life on the ground in a GP Surgery.

During this session we will be looking at:

What is safer recruitment?
Underpinning employment law
Key safeguarding elements of the practice recruitment and selection policy statement
Risk assessment of convictions
Conviction in employment

This session will help you to be more confident about these areas of HR in Primary Care

To purchase access to this recording, please click here: www.wessexlmcs.com/lunchandlearn/purchase/178

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Bite-Size for Managers on Employment Law & Contracts

John Kraft & Liz Willett from Kraft HR Consulting Ltd will lead this first HR Bite Size for Practice Management on Employment Law & Contracts. John & Liz will be joined by Jane Dawes, one of our PM Supporters who will assist the session by making it practical and relevant to life on the ground in a GP Surgery.

During the session we will be looking at:

Employment law – things to know and action
Importance of good contracts
Holiday pay worked example
Difference between holiday entitlement and holiday pay (people are getting very mixed up on this)
Setting up for success – what should and shouldn’t be in an employment contract

Following the session, we hope you will be more confident dealing with these issues in the Practice.

To purchase access to this recording, please click here: www.wessexlmcs.com/lunchandlearn/purchase/176

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Becoming a Practice Manager Partner

Recorded during our 2021 PM Conference, PM Supporters Nicky Wornell and Alex Kimber discuss the pros and cons of becoming a PM Partner.

Thinking again about the Administrators and Managers - July 22, 2021

Jayne Tabor, PM Supporter, chats with Louise Greenwood, Director of Education & Training, and shares different ways of structuring the admin and reception teams. Jayne illustrates a way of introducing new managers to share the responsibilities of running the practice and suggests how you can agree pay scales.

Example Management Structure

Professional Recognition of Practice Managers

With Thanks to Ockham Healthcare who recorded this podcast.

With a whopping 55% of Practice Managers intending to leave their posts in the next 12 months, this is a clear sign that there is growing discontent and therefore, a potentially huge problem for general practice that needs to be tackled sooner, rather than later. In the latest of our series of Practice Manager panels, Nicola Davies and Robyn Clark return and are this week joined by Jo Wadey, fellow Practice Manager and Chair of the West Sussex Practice Managers Association and by Carole Cusack, Director of Primary Care at Wessex LMCS to discuss the issue of continuing disregard and lack of recognition nationally for Practice Management as a profession. Where and how do Practice Managers get their concerns heard? How effective are LMCs in addressing their needs? Should there be national accreditation of Practice Managers? And the million-dollar question; is there a role for collectivism and the establishment of a union?

Practice Manager Appraisals

In this podcast Louise Greenwood, Wessex Local Education, Training and Development Manager (LEaD) tells Ben Gowland, Director, Ockham Healthcare about the activities that have been put in place to support practice managers in the area including a new appraisal system that strengthens PM appraisal and provides productive and motivating time for the appraisees (and their appraisers) whilst also identifying learning needs and allowing planning for the future.

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Practice Manager Coaching

In this podcast Louise Greenwood talks to Karen Jefferies about her work as a PM Supporter, the value of coaching and what PMs may want to prioritise at the moment. You can find out more about PM coaching and mentoring here: https://www.wessexlmcs.com/practicemanagercoachingmentoring

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