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Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust
We delivered a human rights capacity building programme for staff across multiple disciplines within Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust (TEWV).
How we designed the programme
BIHR worked together with TEWV to support them to embed human rights within the trust for several years. In 2023, BIHR delivered a human rights practitioner development programme for staff working multiple disciplines across the trust. The ultimate aim of the programme was to improve outcomes for people who access TEWV services by developing the ability of staff to integrate human rights into their everyday practice.
To create the programme, we worked with our Lived Experience Expert Consultants to co-develop a two-part introductory online programme open to all staff. We are also currently co-developing a series of online Practice Leads workshops providing intensive learning support for senior staff to create proactive human rights champions within the trust. The Practice Leads workshops were created based on information gathered from mapping activities with staff about the specific human rights and issues that they most want to focus on.
About the programme
The programme had two parts:
Two-part staff introductory human rights programme:
- We worked together with our Lived Experience Expert Consultants to co-develop workshops for staff. This was a two-part programme starting with an introduction to human rights law and a refresher workshop with a focus on putting rights into practice.
- We then delivered the human rights workshops for staff. By the end of the programme, we had delivered 30 workshops.
Eight-part Practice Leads programme
- We then prepared and delivered introductory human rights workshops for around 40 Practice Leads.
- We worked together with the Practice Leads to map the content for the majority of the programme. This supported staff to increase their awareness of human rights, focus in on key articles within the Human Rights Act, sustain learning and development, problem-solve, and share good practice.
- We then used the information from the Practice Leads about their learning needs to work with our Lived Experience Experts to create bespoke human rights workshops.
- We supported staff to reflect on their learning over the course of the programme and make a plan for embedding human rights into their future work.
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