Recovery
CPFT is very proud to have been selected as a demonstration site for Implementing Recovery Organisational Change (IMROC), a joint sponsored project by the Department of Health and the NHS Confederation. As one of six demonstration sites in the country, we were chosen as a result of our excellent progress in successfully embedding a recovery approach and in making good progress in many of the key elements of recovery-focused practice.
All demonstration sites use the IMROC methodology in an ongoing process of assessment, goal setting, action planning and review and join a learning set with the pilot sites and learning set members. Below is the description of our work produced by the Project Team during the baseline assessment process.
"Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust has demonstrated strong
leadership and commitment at a Board level, led by the Chief Executive, and driven by other
executive directors to integrate recovery into the culture of CPFT. It is probably best known
for the outstanding progress it has made in the training and employment of peer workers.
Following an intensive period of planning and training by experts from Recovery
Innovations in Phoenix, Arizona, 60 peers with ‘lived experience’ in mental health problems
have been trained and more than 50 have been appointed to positions within CPFT. This
is an ongoing programme of training and integration to fulfil the Trusts' vision as an
organisation that supports and encourages diversity in the workforce and recognises the
importance of lived experience in delivery of mental health services."
Click here to find out more about IMROC.
What is recovery?
"Recovery is being able to live a meaningful and satisfying life, as defined by each person, in the presence or absence of symptoms. It is about having control over and input into your own life. Each individual’s recovery, like his or her experience of the mental health problems or illness, is a unique and deeply personal process.”
Scottish Recovery Network 2009
“Recovery is not about ‘getting rid of problems’. It is about seeing people beyond their problems – their abilities, possibilities, interests, and dreams and recovering the social roles and relationships that give life value and meaning”
Julie Repper and Rachel Perkins, 2002
The CPFT Board has endorsed the concept of recovery as central to the working of CPFT. Recovery is embedded in the vision and values of CPFT. CPFT has developed a recovery pledge.
The key components of the project: