Workforce Plan
Our workforce plan was approved in 2023 and is a key enabler of the Council Plan. It reflects our ambition to have the right people, in the right roles, with the right skills and attitude. Our workforce needs to be responsive and ambitious, adapting what they do, to support our strategic priorities. This plan outlines the challenges that we face and actions needed to deliver on our priorities. When this was approved, we gave a commitment to review this in 2024 to ensure that it remained fit for purpose, following the employee engagement survey and employee experience work being undertaken. It is reflects the key people priorities from the Council’s updated Workforce Strategy. Each Service has separately developed their own workforce action plan.
We welcome any feedback.
If you have any queries about the survey, please email hrhelpdesk@falkirk.co.uk
Phases
Feedback
Feedback of results
Feedback from Consultation
There was limited feedback on the plan with only 11 respondents.
The majority of the respondents felt that the Workforce plan continues to reflect current staffing issues/ challenges.
There was some feedback that the plan did not reflect recruitment difficulties or employee morale issues linked to vacancies within specific areas of the Council. The action plan (attached as an appendix to the Plan) details actions being taken by the Council to address these areas within the Attraction & Recruitment, Health Safety and Wellbeing and Capacity Performance themes. Outwith this Services have developed their own action plans with relevant targeted actions in these areas.
There was also some feedback that the Plan should include more actions to improve diversity and support for disabled workers as people priorities. The Plan does include actions to support this in the Equality and Diversity Theme and links with the Council’s Equality Outcomes and Mainstreaming report where specific actions are outlined.