Page 23 - Week 01 - Tuesday, 12 February 2019
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ACTAS leadership framework, have included discrete managers and supervisors sessions as part of their implementation.
As part of the transition, further work is required to set a strategic vision and to operationalise the expected behaviours agreed on in the ACTAS leadership framework at all levels in ACTAS. This work will be progressed by the chief officer of ACTAS. Targeted leadership training and development will be developed with the integration of the capabilities identified in the ACTAS leadership framework into the ACTAS staff development and performance framework through 2019.
Recommendation 6, staff workshop series, has been achieved. Five facilitated workshops were held for all staff in 2015 to canvass areas of concern and to set priorities. The schedule of issues arising from the facilitated workshops formed the body of work progressed and discussed in project working and focus groups, which met on 48 occasions in 2016 and 2017. Nine focus groups, three of which continue to meet, are finalising recommendations for action on the discrete issues of concern. The ACTAS staff consultative forum has been established as a standing committee and has met on 11 occasions to date and provides an ongoing opportunity for staff engagement.
Recommendation 7, communication strategy, has been achieved. The adoption of the blueprint for change internal communications strategy, which has been reviewed, updated and endorsed on several occasions, provides the capstone guidance to enable effective product delivery within the blueprint for change project and assists in aligning the activities and deliverables to the broader objectives of the ESA. The ACTAS staff consultative forum is also tasked with improving internal communications. The project board will continue to review and update the internal communications strategy.
Recommendation 8, governance and measurement, has been substantially addressed but will remain an ongoing requirement. As part of the governance structure of the blueprint for change project, the blueprint for change oversight committee was established in 2015 and met on 15 occasions. The oversight committee was established to provide strong governance and to report on the progress of blueprint for change recommendations.
This oversight committee was headed up by an independent chair, Mr David Place, recently appointed as the Chief Executive Officer of the South Australian Ambulance Service. Mr Place has been the independent chair since the inception of the oversight committee in 2015, and I want to express my gratitude to the South Australian government for making Mr Place available over the past four years.
I also want to acknowledge the leadership of Howard Wren, our chief ambulance officer. He has brought about a more inclusive workplace and one that has built on the blueprint for change.
Making change and ensuring that our paramedics and ACTAS staff are looked after is no easy task, and I want to thank the Transport Workers Union for their dedication and passion in ensuring that our community has the best ambulance service. Without
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