News

Hello Team Derian, I hope that you are all well.

 

It’s been a while since I sent a staff update email, so I thought I’d share some brief information with you all:

 

1. Cost of Living Increase: You will recall the Trustees approved a cost of living increase in April of 3%.  Since then we have been following the public sector pay award decisions, and can now confirm that following a request to the Trustees we will be increasing that 3% award to 5.5%, matching the NHS pay award for this year.  This is great news, however not everyone will be eligible, you’ll need to have been in employment at Derian on the 1^st April this year at the time the cost of living increase was awarded.  The additional 2.5% will be backdated to the 1^st April and you will receive this in your August salary.  You will also recall that we became a Real Living Wage employer in April also, and many staff had an uplift in hourly rate to match the RLW rate.  Some of this uplift was greater than the cost of living increase, and therefore these employees will not receive a further increase.  If your RLW uplift is less than the 5.5% then you will receive some uplift to match the 5.5%.  Apologies if this sounds confusing – please check with HR for any queries you may have.

 

2. Recruitment: We have been extremely busy with recruitment across both the care and non-care  areas of the charity.  New roles appointed to include a Perinatal Nurse (Vicky), Midwife (Maria), Community Team Leader (Victoria) and our new Head of Integrated Care, who I am delighted to say is our very own Rosie Thomas.  We have also appointed  new Finance Director (Tracy) who will join in September.  We are still very actively recruiting Nurses to continue to build the team.  Other roles across the charity will be advertised also.

 

3. All Staff Away Day: Given the amount of new staff joining Team Derian we have decided to postpone the away day until the majority of posts are recruited to and new staff have joined us, we thought this made sense.  A new date will come out soon.

 

4. CQC Awareness: Anthony and Catherine have carried out a workshop for Trustee and the GPs to remind them of their responsibilities within the CQC framework, this was very well received and we plan to provide them with more knowledge around CQC compliance.

 

5. Visits: We’re now putting Derian back on the map in terms of our external positioning and reputation building, and so you’ll see many visitors over the coming weeks and months as we re-build our profile.  Many of the Chief Nurses across the health system will be visiting along with many other colleagues as we build partnerships and collaborations.  Catherine is leading this piece of work.

 

6. Income Generation: We are developing an Income Generation strategy across four key areas of our financial modelling, as we aim to raise more funds over the coming years to help support the growth in our hospice services.  We’re focussing particularly on our fundraising plan, and Emma our new Fundraising Manager will be key in developing this, also our Retail growth plan, and two new areas of fundraising for Derian, Major Donor fundraising and developing our strategy for Legacies.  We’ll share more about all of this over the coming months.

 

That’s about it for now

 

Rather than a weekly email which can be difficult to commit to and often there isn’t much to share, going forward I’ll email fortnightly if there is anything to update staff with.

 

Have a great day/week everyone…

 

Best wishes   Karen   Karen Edwards OBE Chief Executive Officer   Please note, I am sending this email now as it suits my work pattern, which may not match yours.