Northumbria
University and Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust have won the ‘Knowledge
Exchange Strategic Partnership’ award from PraxisAuril, a world-leading association
for Knowledge Exchange practitioners.
The academic-NHS partnership received the award from PraxisAuril for their project ‘Principles and
Practice of Restorative Just Culture’.
Restorative
Justice is an approach that works to replace a culture of blame and fear with a
culture of trust, learning and accountability.
Together,
Northumbria and Mersey Care are pioneering professional development courses on Restorative Just Learning Culture
and developing and embedding new learning into organisational practice.
Their
four-day accredited course teaches the theory behind Restorative Just Learning
Culture and its application in complex organisations. The programme aims to benefit
professionals and practitioners involved in the management and welfare of a
range of stakeholders in any industry.
Dr Gosia
Ciesielska, Associate Professor of Organisation Studies within Northumbria’s Newcastle Business School, who led on the project, said:
“These days we talk a lot about sustainability in the context of production,
consumption, or energy. This award recognises the importance of sustainable
Human Resource Management and puts restorative justice as a central concept of
progressive talent management.”
Improving
workplace wellbeing and cutting business costs
A 2019 NHS
Patient Safety Strategy highlighted the cost to patient safety resulting from
healthcare teams that do not feel supported to carry out patient care,
estimating 11,000 lives go unsaved, a further £1 billion is spent on treatment
following unnecessary incidents, whilst bullying and harassment costs £2
billion per annum.
Northumbria
University and Mersey Care’s Principles and Practice of Restorative Just
Culture course teaches learners and equips organisations with strategies to
manage these issues in a restorative way that minimises the negative impacts,
maximises learning and develops an organisational culture where people feel
safe.
Such has
been the success of the course that the UK’s ZeroSuicide Alliance is utilising
it to help facilitate the work they are doing to prevent suicide in the UK and
beyond.
Amanda Oates,
Executive Director of Workforce at Mersey Care, said: “Mersey Care
has led a major change in culture, not only in our own services, but across the
NHS. We’re delighted to partner Northumbria on this and welcome this award in
recognition of our joint working. What makes me, as Chief People Officer, even
more proud, is that together we’re improving lives and supporting people at
challenging times”.
The power
of partnerships
By working
collaboratively with other organisations universities can play a powerful
and strategic role in improving lives.
The
PraxisAuril Knowledge Exchange (KE) Awards celebrate the people who help to initiate
and deliver impact from research through a diverse range of activities.
The KE
Strategic Partnership award recognises the success of an external partnership
which demonstrates the value of collaboration.
The awards
are supported by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) and work with Government
Office for Technology Transfer (GOTT), the TenU, the National Centre for
Universities and Business (NCUB) and SETsquared to increase support and
publicity for the important and impactful achievements of the KE profession.
For more
information about the Principles and Practice of Restorative Just Culture course
and upcoming dates, visit www.northumbria.ac.uk/restorative-just-culture.
