Interim NHS People Plan
Financial Business Case
The implementation of ESR Self Service offers a wide range of cost and service improvements, through the re-modelling of business processes and modernising the workforce, thus enabling the release of improvements to your employees, future employees, managers, and the wider organisation through the use of effective use of the vast range of ESR functionality available.
Cost Improvements
- Opportunity to streamline business processing, minimise or eradicate centralised data entry teams
- Improving retention rates will reduce your vacancy rate/recruitment costs
- Reduce your staff turnover and improve your workforce stability rate
- Reduce bank and agency costs by streamlining your on-boarding processes
- Reduce lengthy face to face induction for new starters by introducing Statutory and Mandatory training prior to a new employee’s start date, therefore reducing recruitment cost/time to hire timescales
- Reduce/remove incorrect/over payments for current staff or leavers with timely data input into ESR at source
- Remove internal delivery costs for paper payslips by moving to on-line payslips
- Reduce your training costs by increasing e-Learning for non-clinical and clinical training
Service Improvements
- Benefit from a more engaged workforce staff by encouraging a culture of supportive processes
- Improve the timeliness and quality of your workforce data
- Have a greater understanding of your data and workforce requirements at source
- Be paper-light and reduce your carbon footprint. ESR is one-stop-shop for all workforce information, maximising efficiencies in back office functions
- Increase productivity by fully implementing the simple and easy to use ESR Portal, thereby reducing time away from work duties
- Provide your managers with up to date workforce information to assist them in managing their staff
- Provide instant access to essential employment information through the ESR portal, such as on-line payslips, Total Reward Statements, learning compliance and annual leave
- Use the ESR Portal as a key internal communications tool for all organisation news; using the local links and twitter portlets
