Principles of Best Practice Rostering. Queensland Health Guidelines
(a) The parties agree the Principles of Best Practice Rostering: Queensland Health Guidelines continue to be an important tool to promote and facilitate consistency of practice with respect to rostering across Queensland Health. The parties agree the guidelines should inform all rostering.
(b) A project to implement the Best Practice Rostering Guidelines and resolve rostering and fatigue issues will be established and funded under this Agreement. The work under this project will include but is not be limited to:
(i) Launching and implementing the Best Practice Rostering Guidelines;
(ii) Develop and deliver an education package to NUMs, MUMs and other line managers on the Guidelines;
(iii) Explore and make recommendations to NaMIG on the implementation of a definition of a ‘whole day’ at clause 15.5 of the Award as midnight to midnight;
(iv) Developing a definition of ‘fatigue’ with an agreed escalation process for dealing with employees who believe they are fatigued;
(v) Continuous improvement of on-call and recall provisions;
(vi) Identify ways to improve the attractiveness of working night shift and investigate fatigue management strategies;
(vii) Minimise difficult to fill shifts by identifying strategies to reduce fatigue;
(viii) Minimise fatigue for employees returning to work following parental leave.
(c) Recommendations from this project will be provided to NaMIG for endorsement within 12 months of certification of this Agreement. The parties will implement the endorsed recommendations over the life of the Agreement.
(d) Employees responsible for rostering should be familiar with the Guidelines and where possible use them in the creation of rosters.
(e) A communication plan and training program will be jointly developed to facilitate the implementation of the revised guidelines within 3 months of completion of the revised guidelines.
Principles of Best Practice Rostering. Queensland Health Guidelines
(a) The parties agree the Principles of Best Practice Rostering: Queensland Health Guidelines continues to be an important tool to promote and facilitate standardisation and consistency of practice with respect to rostering within the employer. Accordingly the parties agree the guidelines should inform all rostering.
(b) The employer and the QNU, through NaMIG, will establish a project team to jointly review the guidelines within one year of certification of the Agreement. In particular the review will consider and make recommendations regarding additional content with respect to the following:
(i) On call and recall including:
A. proper purpose of on call and recall;
B. reasonable levels of on call and recall;
C. support documentation and education for NUM/MUMs completing rostering including future requirements with the introduction of real time rostering (Workbrain).
(ii) Night shift including:
A. recovery time after night shift.
(c) The review will report to NaMiG on a monthly basis during the life of the project.
(d) A communication plan and training program will be jointly developed to facilitate the implementation of the revised guidelines within 3 months of completion of the revised guidelines.
Principles of Best Practice Rostering. Queensland Health Guidelines
(a) The parties agree the Principles of Best Practice Rostering: Queensland Health Guidelines continue to be an important tool to promote and facilitate consistency of practice with respect to rostering across Queensland Health. The parties agree the guidelines should inform all rostering.
(b) Employees responsible for rostering should be familiar with the Guidelines and where possible use them in the creation of rosters.
