What is a Community of Practice?
A group of individuals who share a common concern, set of problems, or an interest in a topic and who come together to fulfil shared goals.
What is its purpose of the Belong, Stay Thrive Community of Practice?
Improving staff retention is complex and multifaceted, and there is no single solution that ensures success. The Belong, Thrive and Stay Community of Practice (CoP) was established in May 2024, to provide an opportunity for retention leads to come together to collectively improve staff retention.
What is the aim of the CoP?
The Belong, Thrive and Stay CoP aims to support retention leads and key stakeholders across NHS Wales to work, learn, share, and innovate together to collectively improve staff retention across NHS Wales.
Responsibilities of members
To deliver the CoP aim, the community members are required to:
- Collaborate and work collectively as retention leads and peers, working towards the same end goal.
- Identify opportunities for collaborative quality improvement interventions and innovations to address national retention challenges.
- Develop, promote, and utilise national staff retention approaches and supportive resources hosted by HEIW to improve local staff retention.
- Provide insight, feedback, and evaluation of local and national retention resources.
- Share knowledge, experience and learning from local retention improvement interventions.
- Highlight and share examples of best practice and evidence-based resources, to identify opportunities for spread and scale.
- Share local information and intelligence to ensure systems and processes, implemented by HEIW, serve local and national needs, and meet current and future retention priorities.
- Assess the quality and impact of local and national retention interventions.
- Continuously improve the approach to staff retention nationally.
Projects and innovations developed by the CoP can be seen within the current retention project and case study section of this hub.
If you would like more information or would like to be involved in the Community of Practice, please contact the National Retention Programme Lead.
