Workforce and leadership – Green Plan

The transition to a net zero BTHFT will be driven by our people.

We are committed to improving engagement to ensure everyone is involved on the journey to deliver our net zero and wider sustainability goals.

We will work together to learn, innovate and embed sustainability into everyday actions.

Our workforce and leadership objective is to:

Create a culture of sustainability through comprehensive training, leadership development, and active engagement in carbon reduction initiatives, ensuring all staff are empowered to contribute to net zero goals.

Where we are

  • We recently appointed our new Head of Sustainability who will work with our Senior Responsible Officer (SRO) to implement the Green Plan 2025-2028 and drive our net zero and sustainability journey
  • Our SRO is the dedicated lead on the Executive Board for the Green Plan

Where we want to be

  • Establish Green Champions across the Trust to promote awareness and engagement of our sustainability initiatives and generate new ideas
  • Introduce a sustainability category at our staff awards to encourage and recognise sustainable behaviours
  • Align and provide training with our sustainability goals, potentially including sustainability as part of mandatory training and providing role specific training to invest in our teams
  • Improve our communications for sustainability issues to increase visibility and engagement
  • Introduce Board level training on sustainability

Actions

We have identified the following actions to enable achievement of our workforce and leadership objective:
Action Trust lead Delivery date
Assess workforce capacity and skill requirements for delivering the Green Plan Head of Sustainability End of 2025
Promote, and consider setting uptake targets for, core training offers set out on the Greener NHS Training Hub Head of Sustainability End of 2025
Promote specialist training for staff groups who underpin the delivery of green plans, such as board members, procurement, finance, estates and facilities staff and clinicians Head of Sustainability End of 2025
Introduce Green Champions to promote awareness of the agenda across the Trust Head of Sustainability Mid 2026
Improve Green Plan communications by developing a communication strategy to support the promotion of sustainability development to staff and learning through existing Trust channels Head of Sustainability End of 2026
Implement a sustainability category at the staff awards to encourage and recognise sustainable staff behaviours Green Plan SRO Mid 2026

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