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IntroductionThe Equality Act (2010) places a duty on public authorities to promote better understanding between people who hold different faiths, and those who hold none, and ensure equality of service for all. We are renewing our strategy as part of our commitment to fulfilling that duty.

This work supports our Trust’s values of working together for better mental health:

1. Positively – Services where practitioners listen to what service users say matters to them – and reflect this in care planning2. Respectfully – Services where staff feel that their faith, spirituality and belief is respected by the Trust3. Together – Faith communities that are better able to support members with mental health needs because we have helped reduce stigma and increased understanding

In this booklet you can find out about our plans to: ensure that service users and carers have an opportunity to discuss their spiritual needs as part of assessment and care planning; support the spiritual needs of Trust staff and work with faith communities to strengthen their capacity to support people with mental health problems.

Robert Nesbitt Kate Holmes Julie WarrenTrust Secretary Spiritual and Pastoral Spiritual and Pastoral

Care Lead (Suffolk) Care Lead (Norfolk)

NSFT Spirituality Strategy


Our Strategy for 2016 to 2019 3

Our five principlesWe have identified five core principles that underpin our approach to spirituality and identity in the Trust.

Equality comes first

Valuing Spirituality

Inclusion: valuing non-spiritual perspectives

Inclusion: spirituality as a broad concept:

(my view of the world, my place in it and how I interact with it)

Accessibiity: services should be proactive

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Our objectives:

Our Service Users For many people who see themselves as spiritual, their belief system is a core part of their strength and fundamental to their recovery.

It is important that this part of their identity is reflected in their care.

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1. 2016 Continue Recovery College spirituality and mental health workshops for service users

2. 2017 Work with service users on a survey to discover their needs

3. 2016-17 Focus on the spiritual needs of young people

We want to ensure that all service users have the opportunity to learn the meaning of spirituality and explore how this can form an important part of their recovery.

By using a co-productive approach we intend to empower and involve service users at every stage of the process. This would mean co-developing and co-delivering workshops alongside clinicians and spiritual and pastoral care leads.

We wish to have a greater understanding of service user spiritual needs so that we can provide appropriate services.

By working with service user groups, the Spiritual and Pastoral Care lead in Suffolk hopes to be in direct contact with a greater number of service users who will be able to articulate their needs both in inpatient services, as recently experienced, and in the community.

In view of the move of young people’s in-patient services to Carlton Court, this will be an opportunity to design services around this age group.

The Spiritual and Pastoral Care Lead in Norfolk will introduce more modern worship and means of communication co-designed with service users. Carlton Court will be the centre for a conference for young people designed and led by them in 2017.



Our objectives:

Our Staff Staff with spiritual beliefs will follow these in their own time. Others will not be aware that some of their needs and the needs of those they support may fall within our broad definition of spirituality.

There may be times when staff will benefit from support for their spiritual needs from others including the specialist support of the Spiritual and Pastoral Care Team.

To date there has been no forum for staff to discuss these needs.

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1. 2017 Improve communication with staff especially outside acute wards

2. 2017-18 Deliver training to staff in assessing and meeting spiritual needs

3. 2016-17 Include spiritual wellbeing in supervision policy and establish a staff spiritual wellbeing network

Our consultation over the strategy and the Equality Survey have revealed that a large proportion of staff, particularly in community and primary care teams, do not know how to contact the spiritual and pastoral care leads.

The Spiritual and Pastoral Care leads will regularly visit community teams to raise our profile and ensure an adequate supply of our leaflet on spiritual and pastoral care services.

The 2014 audit showed that staff are not recording spiritual needs in the mental health assessments and care plans of service users.

The Spiritual and Pastoral Care leads plan to deliver an introduction to spirituality over the lunch time period to staff in each local hub. This will be followed up with bespoke training in teams on request to help staff in their approach to recording spiritual needs.

We will establish a Spiritual Wellbeing Employee Network Group which will facilitate and encourage staff to come together and discuss spiritual issues affecting the workforce. The Spiritual and Wellbeing ENG will be chaired and supported by our Director of Operations in Suffolk. Meetings will be held centrally and also, the Spiritual and Pastoral Care leads will set up staff spiritual wellbeing groups in different localities. Now that the supervision policy is being reviewed Trust management will ensure that it is a requirement of this process that staff spiritual needs are raised.



Our objectives:

Faith communities Our services are part of a much wider network of communities, families and friends. This community includes both formal and informal faith groups, and these groups often play an important part in supporting people with mental health needs.



1. 2016 Hold a conference for faith communities to raise awareness

2. 2017-18 Offer training to members of faith communities

Our consultation on this strategy has brought us into contact mainly with members of the Church of England but many other faiths are represented amongst our staff and service users.

We will therefore hold a conference for people of minority faiths to listen to their views of mental health and discover how we can better design services which they are then willing to access.

Members of faith communities have told us that they do not know how to treat those with mental health needs.

Following on from the proposed conference for minority faiths, we will build on the contacts made there to go into local faith communities to educate them in how to meet the needs of those with mental health problems to encourage them to access services and to remain well after discharge. We will continue similar training for mainstream churches.



Conclusion1. 2018-19 Assessment of spiritual needs

In order to find out what impact this strategy is having on services, the Diversity Team will work with the Audit Department to conduct an internal survey on how far the spiritual needs of service users are being assessed and included in care plans.

2. 2019 Day conference on renewal of strategy Before we extend this strategy to a full five year term the Diversity Team will organise a conference of service users, staff and stakeholders where we can report on progress and gain feedback on how this strategy mightbe refined.

Get in touch

To share your ideas and to give feedback email: [email protected]

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“My spirituality is who I am,

unique and alive” - service user


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