Spring Clean Your ESR!
Now that spring is upon us, the London Regional team decided to help ESR users dust off the cobwebs with two events covering Workstructures and Housekeeping in ESR.
The Workstructures event was a re-run of the popular session first run in November 2020, and covered functionality such as setting up and maintaining the organisational hierarchy, positions, locations and reporting. The demand for the session remains high, and with this in mind, the team have arranged for a third session to be run on 20th July – details can be found in the ESR Events Calendar on the ESR Hub: https://my.esr.nhs.uk/dashboard/web/esrweb/nhs-events.
The Housekeeping event covered a wide range of URPs, from Recruitment to Learning and all points in between, and attracted over 100 attendees, both from London and country-wide.
The purpose of the session was to highlight the importance of good housekeeping practices in ESR, and the impact that activity (or lack thereof) in one part of the system could have on other parts.
Topics covered included:
- Closing down old Recruitment and Applicant Activity,
- Differences between Terminating and Deleting Employee records (and how to do the latter),
- Keeping the Learning Catalogue tidy,
- Maintenance of Roles and URPs,
- Position coding, and
- Useful ESRBI reports to identify any discrepancies in data quality.
‘Very informative and useful’ and ‘Keep them coming!’ were some responses from the attendees. The London ESR team plans to develop a Fact Sheet covering the topics explored in the Housekeeping session, and will make available on the ESR Hub.