Forensic Services

• Following recovery from the pandemic, the service has seen significant improvement in its recruitment and retention.
• Developing a positive, listening and open culture after an extensive colleague listening exercise.
• Placing service users and carers at our heart, focusing on colleague wellbeing, strong leadership and showcasing what we’re proud of.
• Working closely with regional partners within our provider collaboratives to improve the offer and the quality of care we provide.

• Achieving stability, with clear governance structures, transparent and effective communication.
• Reducing barriers to care, treatment and recovery, leading to timely and effective care.
• Enhancing our secure inpatient environments, collaborating closely with service users and carers.
• Reviewing our spaces and how we do things on the ward, making sure things run smoothly.
• Building a strong and lasting medical workforce, supported by creating and hiring for new clinical roles.

• Work closely with the Organisational Development team to support colleagues to be clear about their roles, create innovative ways to hear from and connect them.
• Develop and expand our community care offer, implement outcome measures, and improve service users’ physical health.
• We’ll continue recruiting for permanent positions whilst learning from and improving our new roles, like the Multi-Professional Approved Clinician in York’s Forensic Inpatient Service, with potential expansion to cover Leeds Forensic Services.

• We will place service user councils central to the governance of our services.
• We will continue to implement ‘You said, we did’ initiatives.
• All our recruitment panels will include service users and/or carers from within the service.
• Implement approaches to hear from, engage with and learn from feedback from carers.

• Clarify roles within teams.
• Make sure everyone’s opinions are valued and heard.
• Ensure all colleagues receive Personal Development Reviews that include chances for growth.
• The space for teams to reflect and learn together, better supervision from managers and clinicians, coaching, peer support and team formulation.

• Focus on stopping all forms of discrimination, particularly as a result of people’s ethnicity.
• Take meaningful steps to increase workforce diversity in leadership and management positions.
• Review and improve our physical health offer, open a new gym in the Leeds Inpatient Forensic Service, and introduce a dental pilot in the York Inpatient Services.