Best employee experience
Great recruitment and a warm welcome
- a fair and straightforward selection and appointment process
- a quality induction to gain a flying start
- a great pay, benefits and rewards package
Brilliant development
- clear job goals and expectations
- exciting opportunities and job variety
- tailored personal and professional development
Great all round experience
In return for your dedication and commitment, you will get:
- a well designed job and role
- caring and supportive teams and colleagues
- modern workplaces and people practices
- a strong voice about your work and workplace
- the opportunity to work in partnership with others, through staff networks, trade unions and more
Flexible career paths and progression
- support to follow your chosen career path, that matches your ambitions and circumstances
- opportunities to work in flexible and agile ways
- development routes for both technical and managerial careers
- recognition and reward for the great work you do, and the difference you make
Being your best
- You feel like you count.
- You are supported to be well at work.
- You are valued for who you are.
Strengthening our culture and values
Being open honest and trusted
We will:
- develop and implement a talent management framework
- support job personalisation
- enhance our workforce information and analytics to aid decision making
Treating people fairly
We will:
- promote diversity, inclusion and difference
- provide holistic health and wellbeing programmes
- enable safe and sustainable places of work
Spending money wisely
We will:
- pay the living wage, and have a fair and sustainable pay structure
- develop long term service led workforce plans
- support service design and the management of change
Working as a team for Leeds
We will:
- identify and deliver the skills needed for the future
- deliver HR in collaboration with others to provide exceptional support to our services
- work closely with our city, regional and national partners
Working with all communities
We will:
- drive the people changes needed to deliver our city wide strategies for Inclusive Growth, Health and Wellbeing and the Climate Emergency
- improve employment opportunities for people from priority neighbourhoods and communities
- promote the public value of all the work we do
Best leadership and management
- work well with partners
- do things with people and build inclusive teams
- great communication
- say thank you
- mbracing new technology and wider change
- listen and act
- great team spirit
- respect for all and a fair chance
- plan resources well and stick to budget
- can do attitude and adopting new ways of working
- provide top quality customer service
- coaching and support
- quality appraisals
Our success measures
How efficient, enterprising and healthy the organisation is, and the overall employee experience for staff. Captured in our Best Council Plan KPIs.
