Our Priorities

System leadership and development is key in enabling us to work more effectively together. We will implement the Wakefield System Development Programme. We will continue with our distributed leadership model to promote a sense of belonging to the Wakefield Place.
The Wakefield System Development Programme identifies some key areas where partners will have to collaborate if we are to support system working.

These include:

• Communicating the vision for integration to all staff
• Creating opportunities for partners to learn together
• Develop behaviours and cultures that support collaborative working
• Demonstrating the benefits of collaborative working to incentivise staff
• Focus on team development where services have been integrated
• Development of effective feedback loops
• Develop a Wakefield talent approach and associated Leadership programmes
• Support development of the Wakefield Leadership Development Programme
• Development of a Wakefield Reciprocal Mentoring and Coaching Programme, which includes a central repository that can be accessed by all partners

We will develop a WDHCP Staff Engagement Strategy aimed at gauging whether our people understand what the functions of the WDHCP are.
We will develop a forward plan for the next 2 years, setting out how we develop system leaders. We will explore ways in which we can diversify our pool of leaders so that they represent the community they service. We will strengthen our leadership development programmes