Integration

New HR Kiosk

We have been  given the following message from the Fire Emergency New Zealand Communications Team:

This is to let you know that the national roll out of Fire and Emergency New Zealand’s new HR Kiosk (called Home Base) was completed on Tuesday and is now available to both paid and volunteer personnel. Home Base is an online system that lets personnel, depending on their role, view their payslips, request leave online, view current and future leave balances, and manage some personal details.

The system was piloted with the People & Capability team, Taranaki/Ruapehu/Whanganui Rural Fire District, Auckland City and Christchurch Metro which provided some good feedback for future enhancements. The Home Base Working Group agreed that the rollout to personnel in each business unit would be best managed by Managers or their delegates. We have deployed the system org unit-by-org unit as each unit signs off that we have set up reporting lines accurately. As each unit has been moved onto Home Base, we have emailed the unit manager with information to pass on to their people.

We have also provided information to all our people about the roll out being completed which you are welcome to share with your members:

Home Base is one of our first fully integrated ICT systems to be rolled out and replaces the employee HR Kiosk that our paid personnel have been using up to now. The HR Kiosk was turned off on 2 May 2018 as Home Base is the one system we will all be using from now on to view human resources information.

Please be aware that Home Base will be off line between this morning and Saturday afternoon while we upgrade the HR/Payroll system so it also runs on a modern platform. The pay run will go ahead today regardless, and employees will be able to see their pay slips on Monday, at the latest.

Any questions regarding this, please contact myvoice@fireandemergency.nz.

 

Our Operating Model – an update from Rhys Jones

Hi everyone,

You will know we have been working on the high level design of the Operating Model. Some of you have been involved in this work, and over recent weeks there have been discussions about the key areas of focus we have landed on.

It is crucial that as we build the new Fire and Emergency New Zealand that each of us leads the changes we are making and help our people understand what we are doing and why.

A key part of that is equipping you with consistent, meaningful information to use with your people.

Attached you will find a communications pack to help you discuss with your people the features that may be contained in a proposed Operating Model. Please use your usual meetings and general conversations to talk through this material. The information provided covers a wide range of material, so please feel free to use what you think is relevant to your area and the interests of your people. (Leaders Brief – 2 March – Fire and Emergency NZ Operating Model)

When having your conversations, I ask that you encourage people to look to the future and see the opportunities and benefits for us and the communities we serve.

As I said in my recent video from the West Coast, the Operating Model will help us to work out three key things:

  • How we will integrate urban and rural operations
  • What strategic national headquarters capability we need
  • The culture we want for our new organisation

More context is also available on the Integration pages of the Portal.

If you or your people have questions or wish to provide feedback, please talk to your manager, a member of the Strategic Leadership Team, or email myvoice@fireandemergency.nz

Rhys Jones

Chief Executive

Availability and Messaging System (AMS)

There is a need for Fire and Emergency NZ to have accurate, up-to-date information about the availability of volunteers and the wider organisation (for example Incident Management teams) to respond to fires and emergencies.

An AMS Reference Group of key operational stakeholders including UFBA/FRFANZ members to give a volunteer perspective have helped confirm business requirements.

The next step is to build a small scale model (prototype) of what an AMS could look like and how it will work in a mobile environment.

Over the next two months the Reference Group will be involved in workshops to test the prototype and give feedback.

Fire and Emergency NZ will then go out to tender to select a supplier to develop a full AMS solution that will improve the ability to manage personnel availability for fires and emergencies.

Download the Availability and Messaging System (AMS) Dec 2017 Update here

Or visit the Portal at https://portal.fireandemergency.nz/projects-and-programmes/integration-phase/workstreams/infrastructure/availability-and-messaging-system/