Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust – Involvement Bank

Published: 01/09/2022

Alane Bould explains how people with lived experience of mental health services ensure that the voice of lived experience is throughout the Trust.

Talking Points 

This video looks at: 

  • How investment in meaningfully involving children, young people and adults can support development and improvement of practice, services and support.

Reflective questions 

Consider examples from your own organisations and practice: 

  1. How does your organisation gather, and act on, feedback from children, young people, families, adults and carers?
  2. What might your organisation do to make learning from feedback part of its culture?

Professional Standards

PQS:KSS - Relationships and effective direct work | Communication | Analysis, decision-making, planning and review | Promote and govern excellent practice | Effective use of power and authority | Purposeful and effective social work | Creating a context for excellent practice | Support effective decision-making | Person-centred practice | Direct work with individuals and families | Effective use of power and authority as a practice supervisor

CQC - Effective | Caring | Responsive

RCOT - Service users | Communication | Identify needs