Our Mission
Our mission is to create a safe warm homely environment where children can happily play and learn; a place of trust where children, parents and staff love to be; where we embrace and care for our local community and the world around us: where we support the health and well being of children and colleagues
Our mission is delivered through our business goals of which there are 5 key pillars.
Our Business Goals
- Creating an environment to play and learn
- A place we love to work
- Caring for the community and world around us
- Supporting the health and wellbeing of our children and colleagues
- Delivery of a sustainable business model
Each of the 5 pillars have work streams and activities, which support us all to deliver our goals and to ensure Home from Home is the best it can be.
Our Values and Behaviours
We underpin the delivery of our mission and business goals through our values shown below. These form a central part of our working culture and people management processes.
We have a behavioural framework, which supports these values and clarifies the expected behaviours for employees and leaders.
Home from Home Values
- Respect
- Cared for
- Inspire
- One team
- Safe and secure
Home from Home Leadership expectations
In addition we expect our leaders to support the delivery in the following way:
- Lead through our values
- Build enduring capability of out teams
- Energise and inspire the team around us
- Embrace open and honest communication
Developing and Training our Staff
We use the above framework to develop our teams using the following tools:
- Annual appraisal and bi monthly supervisions
- Succession planning and Talent management process – 9 box grid
- Training needs analysis and training matrix
Our mission
Home from Home Values and Behaviours Framework
Welcome to the Home from Home behaviours framework. This framework defines ‘how’ we can all contribute to the success of our organisation and to our own successes as individuals. These behaviours demonstrate the attitude and approach we should bring to our work and encompass how we do things, how we treat others and how we expect to be treated.
Employees from Home from Home identified these behaviours to be those that would help to support us achieve our business priorities, underpin our ethos and continue to make Home from Home a great place to work.
Respect
We earn the trust of others, we value diversity of people and thought. We understand how we fit into the bigger picture.
Caring for Others
We put our customers first and take pride in the jobs we do. We are ambitious for our community.
Inspire
We do all we can to be the best we can be and look for better ways to deliver our services. We encourage fun and creativity in everything we do.
One Team
We put our team first and achieve the best results by working together. We push boundaries to support everyone to realise their potential.
Safe and Secure
We care about the safe management of our environment and commit to the best quality outcomes. We prioritise the security of children in our care.
Our mission
Behaviour - ‘what good looks like’
- Takes ownership of our own actions and performance
- Supportive, inclusive and committed to learning from others
- Understand the performance levels and standards required and strives to exceed them
- Provides excellent customer service
- Has a positive impact on the lives of our families, children and communities
- Value the relationships we work with and respects new ones
- Embrace ‘s change with enthusiasm and creative ideas
- Finds new ways to deliver improvements, efficiencies and value
- Is prepared to have fun with the team
- Support those I work with to help build the effectiveness of my team
- Plans activities with an end goal in mind
- Reflects on the work we do and considers how it can be improved
- Recognizes and acknowledges the contribution of others
- Implements systems and discipline to ensure safety is maintained
- Embrace’s and upholds the rules and standards set by the company
- Understands when something is not right and corrects it