Transforming Staff Development: ESHT's New Appraisal System
O ur Trust has recently implemented a new online appraisal system designed to enhance staff development and ensure consistent, high-quality appraisals across the organization. To gain deeper insights into this important initiative, we spoke with Stacey Bolingbroke, People Wellbeing and Engagement Manager at ESHT and has agreed to answer key questions about the new approach. In this interview, Bolingbroke shares valuable information about the system’s features, benefits, and how it’s transforming the appraisal experience for staff throughout the Trust.
Q1: What prompted the change to a new appraisal system and how does it differ from the previous approach? The new ESHT appraisal system was implemented in February 2025 to empower appraisees and to address inconsistencies that we've seen." Key problems with the previous system included: - Lack of consistency across the Trust - No way to track the quality of appraisals
- Staff fedback they didn't always receive paperwork after appraisals and goals were not always known, especially when line managers had changed. - Staff would "go from one year to the next without discussing their goals" The new system on Mylearn differs significantly by being electronic rather than paper-based, providing consistent trust-wide coverage, and emphasising personalised development. "This new system gives that consistency across the trust
and It also places greater emphasis on staff self-assessment, and the previous scoring system has been replaced by narrative based scoring” notes Stacey Bolingbroke.
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