The Bridge Project - Strategic Objectives

Between 2010 and 2013 our objectives are:

1. To achieve and sustain high quality, effective and evidence based services within a culture of excellence and continuous improvement by:

Ensuring the development and delivery of services that reduce the harm caused to children and families by drug and alcohol dependancy
Building strategic alliances that support the delivery of services that meet local and individual needs
Ensuring robust service user involvement is established in all services
Ensuring robust clinical governance across all services
Ensuring performance monitoring is improved and embedded throughout the organisation
Developing new services within existing resources to enhance the quality of the clients' Recovery journey
Ensuring services are proactively marketed to stakeholders

2. To develop a highly skilled and committed workforce that is well led and managed by:

Creating and developing organisational leadership capacity that is fit for the future
Ensuring that we have effective reward systems and mechanisms that support our organisational priorities
Increasing staff satisfaction with Bridge as an employer
Incresing minority representation in the workforce
Ensuring that staff sickness levels are below the national average
Improving intra staff communications and the involvement of staff in the analysis of critical business issues
Ensuring that front line practitioners have the cost effective tools and systems they require
Ensuring the provision of appropriate learning and development for all staff
Ensuring that equality of opportunity and diversity is at the core of the organisation
Ensuring there are effective systems for HRM
Developing a workforce that has the flexibility to meet the requirements of the organisation
Ensuring there is a clear framework and strategy for the role of volunteers, students and ex users as contributors to the workforce

3. To ensure a Recovery ethos throughout our services by:

Developing an organisational vision, mission and purpose that reflects a strong theme of Recovery
Developing Recovery based services

4. To build confidence with commissioners by:

Ensuring that Bridge has a lead role in developing local protocols, procedures and systems in improvements
Creating relationship management arrangements with commissioners that demonstrate critical self analysis, professionalism and added value
Ensuring Bridge are recognised as leaders and trend setters accross the district

5. To influence local, regional and national policy by:

6. To develop our evidence base and organisational learning by:

Developing an intranet
Developing a staff library
Ensuring there is a robust framework for evaluating services
Ensuring we have clear processes to collect, collate and update relevant market intelligence

7. To ensure that Bridge is sufficently resourced to enhance service provision and maintain long term viability by:

Ensuring there is sustainable growth
Improving strategic approaches to competative tendering for commissioned services and fund raising
Ensuring there is a robust strategy for the retention of business
Ensuring investment income is maximised
Ensuring that Bridge delivers value for money and remains competative within its market
Ensuring that all services are funded and are financially viable on an on-going basis
Ensruing that there is an appropriate level of reserves
Retaining funder's confidence in the financial management of the organisation
Ensuring Bridge meets all its statutory financial requirements
Improving and enhancing client and staff facilities
Ensuring all premises meet legal and contractual requirements and service provision needs

8. To ensure that Bridge has effective corporate governance by:

Ensuring that the membership of the Bridge Board of Trustees reflects the diversity of the local community and the skills mix for effective governance of the charity
Ensuring that there is an effective governance framework and accountability

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