LGA Solutions hub: Workforce

Workforce consultancy service

Affordable, reliable consultancy, delivering solutions that are tailor made for the local government services sector. The LGA consultancy service offers advice and support on a wide range of HR and management issues, combining our in-house expertise with a team of associate specialists. We work with all types of local authority. Complimenting the following established commercial offers, we are also able to support bespoke requests, where capacity allows, so do get in touch with us to discuss the challenge you are hoping to solve, and we can help you design the right solution for you. 

Contact 

Sarah Ward, Principal Advisor – Workforce 

e-mail: [email protected]

Workforce planning support

The LGA provides practical support to the local government sector to enable the delivery of strategic workforce planning. We have a range of different products available including workforce planning for senior leadership teams, workforce planning for managers, workforce planning skills and knowledge workshops to support HR/OD/HRBPs and bitesize workforce planning series.

Contact

Welna Bowden, Adviser – Workforce

e-mail: [email protected] 

Creating effective organisation structures using DMA 

DMA is a re-organisational design tool which establishes two key fundamentals for an organisation:

• the number of management layers needed, including the units within it, for an organisation to be as effective as possible
• the decision rights in different layers that managers require to be empowered
• it is a proven way of creating an effective organisation and an efficient management structure.

The DMA approach has helped organisations save money, led to timely decision-making, clear responsibilities and empowerment of leadership roles. Employees are more productive, more agile, better at decision making, and more engaged.

Contact

Suzanne Hudson, Senior Adviser – Workforce

e-mail: [email protected]

Recruitment of chief officers and chief executives

Recruiting senior managers in local government is a resource-intensive exercise, often fraught with political sensitivities, requiring market knowledge of the local government employment sector. With the experience gained through dealing with its members, expertise on pay, job evaluations and HR strategies, the LGA can provide support with all – or selected – parts of the recruitment process; starting from when you receive a resignation letter to sending out a job offer.

Contact 

Suzanne Hudson, Senior Adviser – Workforce

e-mail: [email protected]

Chief executive 360 appraisal

A new 360 tool specifically designed for Chief Executives and primarily linking into an appraisal process to support personal development. Provides information and insight that is invaluable for both elected members and Chief Executives to assess impact. This online tool gathers feedback on the many aspects of a Chief Executives role from a number of sources including members, partner organisations, peers and colleagues   

Contact 

Peta Newlin, Senior Adviser – Workforce

e-mail: [email protected]

Job evaluation 

The LGA offers expertise in the following job evaluation schemes:

• the National Joint Council scheme, devised to support single status and agreed by both union and management sides
• Joint Negotiating Committee Chief Officers, an LGA developed bespoke scheme which is in place in a wide range of local authorities and other public bodies
• the Police Staff Support Committee 13 factor scheme
• the Greater London Provincial Council scheme.

Contact 

Ian Hunter, Senior Adviser – Workforce

e-mail: [email protected]

Equality and Diversity support

Using the 15 steps established in our Diverse by Design guide, the LGA is able to support organisations understand their priorities and challenges as they seek to embed EDI principals within their policies and culture. The LGA team provides bespoke support depending on what issues have been identified. This might be supporting development of an EDI action plan, or supporting employee engagement around EDI work. 

Contact 

Luann Donald, Senior Advisor – Workforce

e-mail: [email protected]

HR&OD Peer / Service Reviews

LGA provides a HR/OD service-based Peer review which providers councils with a strategic assessment of their approach to people management and how the HR Service enables its success. The assessment is adapted from the CIPD’s Professional Map specialist knowledge using a simple maturity model based self-assessment tool. The review uses benchmarks from across the sector and beyond using the CIPD HR Insights Tool. The process provides councils with service improvement report and action plan. 

Contact

Nigel Carruthers, Senior Adviser – Workforce

e-mail: [email protected]

Emergenetics

The Emergenetics profile provides users with a simple framework of easily recognisable and practical thinking and behavioural attributes that are easily applicable to work, communication, and interpersonal relationships.             

Contact

David Drewry, Adviser - Workforce 

e-mail: [email protected]

Recruitment advertisement

The LGA advertises roles on behalf of member councils and external organisations. 

Contact

 David Drewry, Adviser - Workforce 

e-mail: [email protected]

Employer Link

This subscription service offers advice and support around pay, pensions and the employment relationship for employers closely aligned to local government. This includes (not limited to) housing associations, academy trusts and leisure trusts.

The Employer Link network keeps members informed of changes and developments to give clear, practical advice on how they impact on members’ financial planning and HR practices. Our guidance is provided by employment relations specialists, with unrivalled knowledge as the officers behind the National Employers in negotiations across the full range of local government services.

With Employer Link you get access to all the employment resources you need in one place.

Contact

 Stephen Cooper, Senior Adviser – Workforce

e-mail: [email protected]