Agenda and draft minutes

Members of Human Resources Committee are asked to consider whether they have an interest in any of the matters on the Agenda, and, if so, to formally declare that interest.

There were no declarations of interest made at the meeting.

Julie Gonda, Director of Community Commissioning to present at meeting. Report attached.

Appendices 1 – 5 attached

Julie Gonda, Director of Community Commissioning presented a report seeking permission to restructure the Council posts within the Community Commissioning structure.

Julie explained that there were two errors within the number of posts set out in the report;

On page 2 of the report, the number of Provider Relationship Officer posts to be deleted should be 6.

The number of Carers Engagement Co-ordinators should be 1

It was explained that in January 2020 the Council’s Cabinet agreed structure proposals within which the Council and the CCG will operate as a partnership across the following departments and commissioning function:

·         The Department of Operations

·         The Department of Corporate Core Services and Finance

·         The Children and Young People’s department

·         The Business Growth and Infrastructure Department

·         The One Commissioning Organisation (OCO)

Executive Directors were tasked with developing detailed structures for their departments, within established resources, which were to be subject to separate approval.  Progress in implementing detailed structures and developing a formal transformation programme was temporarily halted because of the COVID-19 emergency.

OCO responsibilities are organised in four pillars under the Executive Director of Strategic Commissioning, with the structure agreed at a high level.  This high level structure has been consulted upon with all staff concerned between October and December 2019 and it was agreed in January 2020 that this would be the way the OCO would operate.  The four pillars are:

·         Community Commissioning

·         Secondary Care Commissioning (to incorporate SEND moving forward)

·         Public Health

·         Nursing & Quality Improvement.

An exercise was undertaken to identify which staff from the Council and CCG would be aligned under which pillar of work, and this was finalised and agreed in principle in early March 2020. 

The proposals set out within the report are designed to re-structure staff working with the Community Commissioning pillar. This structure incorporates the statutory functions and duties in respect of adult social care under the role of Director of Community Commissioning (DASS).

The report also proposes to embed the identified CCG staff into the line management arrangements within the Community Commissioning pillar, including the Primary Care Team.

In addition, for a number of teams currently operating within line management arrangements of the Community Commissioning Pillar, the report makes proposals regarding the permanent transfer of line management outside of the Community Commissioning Pillar. Some of these arrangements have been in place temporarily due to the Covid-19 pandemic, manager vacancy and capacity issues. Where temporary arrangements have been in place, these are indicated as such.

Julie reported that informal engagement had been carried out with the unions and the new job descriptions had been evaluated. Julie confirmed that financially, the restructure proposals set out were within the existing budget.

Members were given the opportunity to ask questions and make comments and the following points were raised:

• Councillor Caserta referred to changes that were due to come into place from April 2022 across Greater Manchester and asked how the restructured posts would be affected.

Julie explained that the post that were being discussed were Council posts and within  ...  view the full minutes text for item HRA.2