Overview
The mission of this comprehensive forum is to develop a first class communication network for Senior Executives working in the Mental Health and Learning Disability Sectors.
By facilitating mutual support and interaction the forum will enable members to work more efficiently, thus improving nursing care and practice in mental health and learning disability care organisations.
The Aims of the National Mental Health and learning Disability Nurse Directors Forum are
Providing a focus on dynamic leadership for mental health and learning disability nursing
Membership of 100% of relevant English NHS organisations now expanding to other care sectors and to Europe
Creating a consultative body of executive leads for mental health and learning disabilities nursing
Sharing and spreading best practice in mental health and learning disability nursing practice, development and education
Establishing a comprehensive view of the needs and pressures facing the mental health and learning disability nursing workforce
Position Statement of the National Mental Health and learning Disability Nurse Directors Forum
Our forum is made up of representatives across the Mental Health & Learning Disability Nurse Directors of England & Wales.
Mental Health Nursing is a fantastic clinical profession that supports hundreds of thousands of people across England everyday who value their support. We are clinically, as nurses, registered by the Nursing and Midwifery Council to uphold the highest standards in the profession.
We are unable to comment on any existing police or safeguarding investigations into practice concerns or criminal offences.
We can comment on what we believe in as a profession.
We believe in compassion, care, and unconditional positive regard to individuals accessing and being supported by our member organisations.
We believe in a profession that upholds the highest standard of conduct in all members.
We believe in using the clinical evidence and trauma sensitive approaches to their clinical care that holds the person and the people important to them at the centre of their work.
We believe in our leaders listening, supporting and empowering the voice of our people in our care and our clinical staff. For those who use our services we believe them to be partners in care feeding back on their experiences to continually improve our services.
Whenever we see harm and abuse we believe in reporting this as a crime and are committed to following fair process in investigation and action.
We believe that we have practitioners up and down the country who are exceptional clinical professionals doing the right thing every day.
We are committed to continually explore our service provision ensuring that the conditions to practice safely and professionally are set through restorative supervision, clinical reflection with the right level of resource to only ever have a culture of safe compassionate care which is experienced as healing.
We will forever challenge ourselves and revisit as a nursing profession supported by our colleagues as to how we are vigilant and acutely sensitive to any care that is less than respectful, compassionate and therapeutic.
We stand by a commitment that harmful, neglectful and abusive acts need to be eliminated and we are united in our statement that these have no place in our services.