Culture of care expert by experience bank roleinSheffieldinSheffieldPUBLISHED TUE 18 MAR 2025
If you have personal experience as a patient in a mental health ward, or you’re a carer who has supported someone in similar circumstances, we want to hear from you. Your invaluable perspective—whether drawn from recent or current experiences—will help us create positive change in a field often left unheard. We’re dedicated to embedding co-production in our work, and your contributions will be essential in translating our values into meaningful action. With flexible opportunities to engage in discussions and share your story, you’ll play a crucial role in enhancing the care experience. Join us now and help us foster a culture of care where everyone can thrive.
Culture of Care is a national programme that aims to improve the experience of being on wards for everyone: staff, carers, and most importantly, our patients. The Culture of Care Programme is Co-Produced - this means that professionals at all levels have worked with people who use mental health services to create this programme.
The programme is built on four key areas to support our wards:
Safety: Making sure our wards are safe and supportive for everyone.
Trauma-Informed Care: Understanding and addressing the impact of trauma.
Therapeutic Care: Providing care that meets the therapeutic needs of patients.
Equity-Focused Care: Ensuring fair and just care for all service users.
We're looking for people to join us in this important work. Specifically, we need:
- People with who have experience of being inpatients on a mental health ward.
- Carers who have experience supporting people who are or have been inpatients on a mental health ward.
- This experience should be either recent (i.e. within the last 5 years), or current (i.e. you are currently based on one of our wards)
We know that you might have complicated feelings about your time as an inpatient, and that not all experiences of mental health care are positive. It's really important to us that we hear from voices that don't often get heard, especially from people who might feel the most marginalised.
About us
Providing insight and guidance to inform the priorities of this work.
Help to embed co-production into the heart of this work.
Helping us to translate our values and visions into actions and measurable change.
Attending regular meetings with other experts by experience to discuss the quality improvement work on the wards. This can be face to face or via online video link.
Reading documents relating to this work.
This programme is still new, so it is possible that there will be other tasks or ways to get involved we will adopt a strengths-based approach to working with you, so if you have skills or interests in a particular area, we can discuss ways to bring those strengths to this work.
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