Job planning done poorly is a tedious, tiring and frustrating exercise in clinical disengagement. Too often, it is approached as a contractual necessity and becomes bureaucratic and burdensome. Job planning done well is a positive, clinically relevant and organisationally useful team pursuit that can unlock resources, boost morale and enhance safety. In this session we will look at how to get the best from the job plan process, from the preliminaries to the signoff and beyond. Job planning really can be a force for good in the clinical workplace. 

• Awareness of the commonest reasons job planning cycles fail and lead to staff disengagement based on national feedback and experience.
• An understanding of the best ways to introduce and administer a job planning round to consultant colleagues.
• An approach to the key aspects of job planning which can help practitioner wellbeing and psychological safety.
• A knowledge of the team job plan approach and its importance for specialty resourcing and clinical effectiveness.
• A survival guide of top tips for when things go wrong in job planning and how to reconcile differences and disputes.