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- Title
Staff experiences of a novel in‐reach rehabilitation and recovery service for people with profound and enduring mental health needs.
- Authors
Smith, Penn; Thompson, Alison; Madill, Anna
- Abstract
This organizational case study addresses the research question: What are the experiences of staff who work in a novel in‐reach rehabilitation and recovery service for people with profound and enduring mental health needs? Fifteen purposefully sampled staff were recruited from across a novel mental health service that embeds the community sector within inpatient provision. The sample comprises twelve National Health Service and three community voluntary organization staff (four men and eleven women). Data were generated via photo‐elicitation in which interviews focused on the photographs participants brought to help convey their experiences of the Service. Interpretative phenomenological analysis was used to analyse the transcripts. The analysis demonstrates that participants are oriented towards five 'meta‐questions': What is recovery? Who is valued and how is it demonstrated? Why are you frustrated in doing the best job you can and what support do you need? How can change occur in staff practices and approaches in an environment embedded in history? and How do we make the Service work in the context of constraints? Eight paired themes were also identified regarding staff experience of the Service: hope and individuality; culture and power; communication and confidence; accountability and limitations. The conclusions of this organizational case study have wide relevance to clinical practice: staff (i) place importance on promoting and developing greater awareness of different approaches to care; (ii) aspire to develop better communication across multidisciplinary teams and (iii) desire greater awareness of the complexities of risk to improve staff confidence.
- Subjects
MENTAL health personnel; WORK; CONVALESCENCE; INTERVIEWING; INDIVIDUALITY; REHABILITATION of people with mental illness; PHENOMENOLOGY; RESPONSIBILITY; EXPERIENTIAL learning; PSYCHOSOCIAL factors; RESEARCH funding; PHOTOGRAPHY; JUDGMENT sampling; THEMATIC analysis; MENTAL health services; MEDICAL needs assessment
- Publication
International Journal of Mental Health Nursing, 2023, Vol 32, Issue 5, p1289
- ISSN
1445-8330
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/inm.13160