Workforce Strategy

8. Appendices

8.1. Appendix 1: Cabinet Vision – Summary of Workforce Expectations

• Ensuring that Carmarthenshire County Council is a diverse and inclusive organisation.
• To work with relevant groups to promote the council as an employer across all communities including within the Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic community.
• Work with the Public Services Board to drive community engagement and good practice in relation to recruitment from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities.
• To work with relevant external groups, to improve representation and signposting for Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities on the Council’s website.
• To look at ways of improving the quality of our workforce equality data and continuously improve the quality of information gathered to improve workforce planning and management.
• Work to position our recruitment competitively and work towards continuously improving recruitment levels across the organisation. Seeking to understand the steps needed in order to become the ‘employer of choice’ in West Wales.
• Work to market Carmarthenshire County Council as an attractive employer for apprentices, school leavers and graduates. Focusing on reducing the migration of young people out of Carmarthenshire and from rural areas.
• Work with stakeholders to increase the proportion of Welsh-medium apprenticeships.
• Consider the short and long-term capacity of our workforce to deliver the current administration’s vision.
• Continue to embrace and promote agile working, hybrid meetings and new ways of working across the organisation.
• Work with Welsh Government, Public Service partners and Trade Unions in further progressing the Real Living Wage agenda.
• Further increase our use of the latest digital technology to further transform the services delivered by the Council.
• To develop a Council Transformation Strategy which will provide the strategic framework to support the implementation of a programme of transformation and change across the organisation. 

8.2. Appendix 2: Transformation Strategy – Workforce Priorities

• Further develop and strengthen the Authority’s strategic workforce management framework to support the Council in becoming an ‘employer of choice’.
• Further develop the Councils approach to Workforce Planning to provide the capacity and resilience to deliver its strategic objectives and anticipate and meet future needs.
• Ensure that the Council is able to make effective use of data to strengthen the performance and strategic management of its workforce.
• Make effective use of technology to help modernise key workforce processes and procedures.
• Strengthen the Council’s approach to the recruitment, retention, and flexibility of its workforce.
• Ensure that the Council staff are equipped with the necessary skills and behaviours to support the effective implementation of the modernisation and transformation agenda to enable the Council to deliver on its wider aims and objectives.
• Continue to strive to improve the health and wellbeing of our workforce.