Questions Answer Q1. Total organisation headcount of fixed term and permanent staff on the date of this request exclude bank, honorary, hosted services, volunteers and students. 4921 Q2. Are exit questionnaires completed in your organisation?
i. If so, is the questionnaire completed electronically? ii. If it is electronic, is the automated exit questionnaire functionality set within ESR? iii. If it is not completed via the functionality in ESR, how is the exiting employee asked to complete? by their manager, by a team in the corporate division?. iv. What is your return rate of exit questionnaires? v. Does exit questionnaire information get used to improve practices? If so, how? yes yes yes Please answer Q2iii here 20.50% Occasionally – it has most recently been used as part of a QI Retention Project in terms of exploring reasons for staff leaving. Q3. Please provide the information of the reason why employees left your Trust between 1st February 2023 to the 31st January 2024. Please include Permanent and Fixed-term employees in the figures. Please base the figures on Headcount. Staff Group Leaving Reason Additional Clinical Services Additional Professional Scientific and Technical Administrative and Clerical Allied Health Professionals Estates and Ancillary Healthcare Scientists Medical and Dental Nursing and Midwifery Registered
Death in Service 3 Dismissal – Capability 1 1 2 3
Dismissal – Conduct 1 1 Dismissal – Some Other Substantial Reason 1 Dismissal – Statutory Reason Employee Transfer End of Fixed Term Contract 11 8 6 3 4
End of Fixed Term Contract – Completion of Training Scheme 4 End of Fixed Term Contract – End of Work Requirement 1 End of Fixed Term Contract – External Rotation End of Fixed Term Contract – Other Mutually Agreed Resignation – Local Scheme with Repayment 1 2 Pregnancy Redundancy – Compulsory Redundancy – Voluntary Retirement – Ill Health 2 3 4
Retirement Age 13 2 25 4 5 2 28
Voluntary Early Retirement – no Actuarial Reduction 2 1 1 2
Voluntary Early Retirement – with Actuarial Reduction Voluntary Resignation – Adult Dependants 2 1 1 Voluntary Resignation – Better Reward Package 4 6 1 1 4
Voluntary Resignation – Child Dependants 10 1 2 4
Voluntary Resignation – Health 10 1 5 1 1 1 7
Voluntary Resignation – Incompatible Working Relationships 2 2 Voluntary Resignation – Lack of Opportunities 2 6 3 1 3
Voluntary Resignation – Other/Not Known 44 3 26 10 7 2 26
Voluntary Resignation – Promotion 9 3 9 9 1 22
Voluntary Resignation – Relocation 13 2 4 9 1 1 17
Voluntary Resignation – To undertake further education or training 16 4 1 3
Voluntary Resignation – Work Life Balance 25 4 11 9 5 1 33
Not Disclosed/ Not known Other – not listed above 6 6 4 1 8
FOI Request
I am conducting an analysis of employment-exit questionnaire data and the methods used to capture this information in a range of NHS Organisations. It is hoped that this information will inform the design of a new exit data collection process for my own NHS Trust. To achieve this, I kindly request your help under FOI Act 2000.. I would be grateful if you could fill in the attached excel document. Please can the answers be added to the spreadsheet and the completed spreadsheet returned via email before the 8th March 2024.