Managers - FOI Response Register

In the questions below, ‘Manager’ or ‘Managers’ refers to any member of staff employed in your organisation – on either a permanent, part-time (or other) contract which includes the term ‘Manager’, ‘Director’ or ‘Executive’ in their job title or whom has leadership for running a clinical department or operational function for the organisation."

For clarity, I am interested in the managers who oversee the operation of the board, not managers working in the hospitals.

1.    How many Managers are currently employed in your Trust?

25

2.    How many Managers were fired for gross misconduct in the year ending September 2023? Please redact any personal information.

Nil

3.    How many Managers were fired on grounds of capability in the year ending September 2023? By capability, I refer to poor performance, rather than ill-health, as set out in section 98(2) in the Employment Rights Act (1996). Please redact any personal information.

Nil

4.    Of Managers that are currently employed by the system:

a)    How many are below band 8A (according to current Agenda for Change pay rates)?

Managers below this banding would be accountable to their departmental head for operational board decisions.

Therefore nil

b)    How many are above band 8A (according to current Agenda for Change pay rates)?

23

c)    How many are currently on long-term sickness leave?

Nil

d)    How many are employed on part time contracts?

4

5.    Of 'Managers' that are currently employed by your organisation, how many have responsibility for delivering your priorities for 'digital transformation'.  By this, we refer to those who may be responsible for information governance, rolling out an Electronic Patient Record, or introducing innovative digital technologies.

To some degree everyone who falls under the definition of manager used in this FOI will have these responsibilities as information governance is the responsibility of all staff including managers.

Therefore 25