Job Title : Freedom to Speak Up GuardianLocation : Manchester M13Company : Manchester University NHS Foundation TrustSalary : Open Date : 2023-02-17Close Date : 2023-06-17
This is an essential role at MFT, ensuring that our staff, students & volunteers are supported in speaking up, that any barriers to this are addressed, a positive culture of speaking up is enabled & fostered, & issues raised feed into learning & improvement across the Trust.
This role will operate independently, impartially, & objectively alongside the Trust leadership teams to support transparency & actively engage & enable all staff to speak up. The role has the responsibility for developing the FTSU vision & strategy to ensure a Trust-wide FTSU culture is embedded supported by FTSU Champions.
The FTSU Guardian will provide confidential support & advice to individuals who need to speak up supported by the FTSU Champion network & wider workforce teams, support & contribute to the regional & national FTSU Guardian networks & comply with National Guardian Office guidance. Working with the Director of Corporate Workforce & Executive Lead for FTSU. The FTSU Guardian will also have the responsibility for triangulating data from different sources, creating reports & presenting findings to the Board on a regular basis.
The values required for carrying out this role include:
- Commitment to creating an open & transparent culture
- Courage to speak truthfully & challenge appropriately
- Impartiality by remaining objective & unbiased
- Empathy by listening well & acting with sensitivity
- Learning by seeking & providing feedback & looking for opportunities to improve
- Adhering and upholding the Trust values, behaviours, and policies.
- Operating independently, impartially, and objectively, whilst working in partnership with key stakeholders and groups across the organisation.
- Ensuring all staff are aware of the processes for speaking up and how to access mechanisms and channels.
- Supporting a culture of speaking up, listening up and following up that is instilled throughout the organisation.
- Ensuring all staff are supported appropriately when they speak up or support people who are speaking up.
- The Board being fully sighted on FTSU matters and issues that are raised by people who are speaking up.
- Ensuring effective alignment with the National FTSU processes and best practice guidance supporting, and contributing to, the National Guardian Network
- Upholding the key principles of the FTSU Guardian role.
- Upholding the core values of the FTSU Guardian which are: Courage – speaking truthfully and challenging appropriately, Impartiality – remaining objective and unbiased, Empathy – listening well and acting sensitively and Learning – seeking and providing feedback and looking for opportunities to improve.
Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.
We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our brand-new Electronic Patient Record system which we’ve launched in September 2022.
We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our new Green Plan which will set out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.
At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you’ll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the ‘Supporting Documents’ heading. So that you’re even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, you’ll need to take time to read the ‘Candidate Essentials Guide’that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how ‘we care for you as you care for others’. Most importantly, it also contains critical information you’ll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.
COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst COVID-19 vaccination is not currently a condition of employment, we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated. If you are unvaccinated, there is helpful advice and information available by searching on the ‘NHS England’ website where you can also find out more about how to access the vaccination.
Diversity Matters
MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team [email protected].
We’re looking forward to hearing from you!