We have launched our new HSE People Strategy 2025 to 2027. It supports the delivery of the priorities set out in the HSE Corporate Plan for 2025 to 2027.
Read the People Strategy 2025 to 2027
Introducing the strategy, CEO Bernard Gloster highlights the commitment to our staff:
"This People Strategy is a significant step forward in our commitment to our employees. We recognise the valuable role that each one plays in delivering excellence for our service-users. Our central aim of being an organisation where staff continue to feel that they belong and are contributing to the best of their ability in delivering the services we provide, and the achievement of our goals, will be further progressed over the period of this strategy."
Priorities of the strategy
The main priorities of the strategy are:
1. Strategic workforce planning and resourcing
The strategy will focus on anticipating, planning, influencing, delivering and supporting a workforce to meet the healthcare needs of the population. We will seek to build, attract and retain staff, and be recognised as one of Ireland’s best employers.
2. Build high-achieving and adaptive teams to enable great performance
The strategy will enable adaptive working patterns and empower future managers and leaders. It will build high-achieving and flexible teams, to enable great performance and deliver for our service users.
3. Foster a diverse and inclusive culture
The strategy will foster a culture that values diversity, creating an inclusive workforce for all staff to better meet the needs of our service users.
4. Support a safe and healthy workplace
The strategy will support processes that protect and promote a safe and healthy physical and psychosocial workplace, enabling individuals to work to their optimum ability.
5. Strengthen the ethos of open feedback and innovation
The strategy will improve delivery of high-quality services by strengthening engagement and collaboration across the organisation, nationally and internationally, learning from best practice. Innovation will be supported to enable everyone to meet their full potential and enhance performance delivery.
Empowering our staff
Our staff are the cornerstone to delivering the right care, in the right place, at the right time. Our shared purpose is to create a workplace where our staff feel better supported, continually valued and proud of the work that they do. We want to enable everyone to help create a more sustainable, resilient and adaptable organisation, delivering safer, more effective and more accessible services.
This strategy is about creating a culture of growth, innovation, collaboration and inclusivity.
Anne Marie Hoey, Chief People Officer of the HSE, highlights the importance of empowering our staff:
"We are confident that working together with respect, we can build a service where we all feel recognised, developed and most importantly enabled to deliver the best for our service users. Working in partnership to bring our strategy to life, will enable us to attract and retain a diverse and talented staff, ensuring we have the right capabilities across the HSE, where everyone has the chance of career development and the opportunity to thrive in their role.”
This strategy aligns directly with the HSE’s goals and values, particularly the delivery of high-quality, compassionate health and social care. It reflects our commitment to invest in our staff and become a high-performing, sustainable and trusted organisation.