HEALTH Network Group Core Values Statement Strategic Aim 7

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HEALTH Network Group Core Values Statement
(Strategic Aim 7)

• Professor Catherine Geissler, Helen Bulpitt, Dr
  Megan Quentin-Baxter and Denise Wilson

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From UKPHA

• If looking at creating new core value statements
  appropriate verbs might include
• value, recognise, celebrate, committed to, affirm
• In terms of value statements
• equity/diversity/inclusion, excellence in and for
  practice, personal value, academic freedom,
  promotion of care, institutional integrity,
  supportive culture, sustainability.

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LTES, University of Southampton

• The LTES is built on six core values
• The pursuit of scholarship
• The communication of knowledge and understanding
• The engagement of individual students in their
  unique learning pathway
• The value of innovation in education
• The importance of employability in a European and
  global context
• The appreciation of diversity and equality of
  opportunity.
• Engagement with these core values will create
  exciting learning experiences for students,
  prepare them for professional employment, and
  nurture future leaders in their chosen fields.

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LTSN Subject Centres - Professional

• We work with people in a professional and
  creative way
• We operate with honesty and to the best of our
  abilities. Our choices and decisions are based on
  both evidence (gained from rigorous research),
  values and experience. We deliver what we say we
  will deliver and do what we say we will do.
• We encourage reflection and learning from
  experience as well as being reflexive in
  determining the impact that we have as
  individuals and networks upon the contexts within
  which we work.
• We operate with respect, everyone is entitled to
  their own opinions and ideas and these should be
  given due consideration
• We work transparently, network members are
  involved in discussions and decisions that affect
  them and their work Channels of communication are
  available and used.

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LTSN Subject Centres - Work with people

• We work with people to help them discover and
  take their next steps. We believe that growth and
  development of individuals and organisations is
  important. We are supportive help people
  (within and outside of the Academy) to work more
  effectively, take on new challenges and affect
  positive change. We are responsive and work with
  the our communities to help meet their needs
• We recognise, celebrate, and work with diversity
  and are inclusive in our approach to enhancing
  learning teaching
• We engender feelings of success, satisfaction,
  and security to promote a sense of well-being in
  individuals and organisations a learning
  organisation is a health promoting organisation
• The Network presents a coherent whole that is
  more than the sum of its parts with a matrix of
  links that facilitate networking
• Users of both education services (students) and
  professional services (patients/clients), where
  appropriate, are involved in determining network
  direction and activities where possible

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LTSN Subject Centres - Creative

• We are open minded, think laterally, and look for
  imaginative and action oriented ways of working
  where appropriate
• We believe that change should be encouraged where
  it is likely to benefit the individual or
  organisation
• We are dynamic, proactive and forward looking
• We are flexible, reprioritise and respond in a
  way that meets the needs of our communities
• What works in one context doesnt necessarily
  work in others, one size doesnt fit all. There
  are generally good practices rather than one best
  practice.
• We believe that knowledge doesnt stay still.
  Substrate and growing conditions need to adapt
  according to changing conditions and environment
• We actively look for ways to provide resources
  and support in order to benefit the Higher
  Education community
• The resources at our disposal are used
  effectively and we look for ways to maximise gain
  (for academics and students) and minimise cost.

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Palatine

• The factors that are critical to our ability to
  engage successfully with our various and varied
  subject communities and stakeholders remained
  essentially the same. These can be summed up as
• Approachability, Credibility, Flexibility,
  Responsiveness, and Visibility.

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Palatine

• Particular factors include
• Employing senior staff who are regarded by their
  peers as experienced and credible colleagues who
  understand the culture and concerns of the main
  disciplines involved
• A flexible team that responds effectively to
  changing agendas and priorities and contributes
  to the debates as appropriate
• Ensuring that forms and styles of communication
  are always appropriate and are informed by our
  understanding and knowledge of the disciplines
• Ensuring that both the organisation and content
  of PALATINE events are relevant, of high quality
  and properly targeted Cont

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Palatine

• Particular factors include
• Maintaining a high profile within the sector and
  beyond
• Maintaining a reputation not only for responding
  to the concerns and needs of colleagues
  (reactive) but also for providing a lead on
  policy initiatives and developments in learning
  and teaching (pro-active)
• Our ability, in an increasingly
  multi-disciplinary context, to provide a
  respected and dynamic forum for the three
  performing arts disciplines to debate and
  exchange ideas and practice
• Maintaining good relations - formal and informal
  - with the three Subject Associations

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Common Values Statement by the Chief Executives
Group of the Health Care Regulators

• Values of Health Care Professionals
• All health care professionals are personally
  accountable for their actions and must be able to
  explain and justify their decisions. Health care
  professionals work in many different types of
  practice. They all have a duty to protect and
  promote the needs of their patients and clients.

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Common Values Statement by the Chief Executives
Group of the Health Care Regulators

• Be open with patients and clients and show
  respect for their dignity, individuality and
  privacy
• Respect patients and clients right to be
  involved in decisions about their treatment and
  health care
• Justify public trust and confidence by being
  honest and trustworthy
• Provide a good standard of practice and care
• Act quickly to protect patients, clients and
  colleagues from risk of harm
• Co-operate with colleagues from their own and
  other professions

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HEALTH Network Group Core Values DRAFT

• To be equitable and inclusive accessible to the
  widest potential audience in academia and
  practice.
• Value and trust colleagues and constituents
  alike.
• Create a supportive culture by working with
  people on matters which are important to them.
• Celebrate and respect diversity and
  individuality.
• Embrace and value change.
• Recognise evidence and scholarship.
• Committed to accountability and integrity by
  providing opportunities for engagement with and
  transparency of process, and regular reflection.