Freedom to Speak Up Guardian - #66353

The Freedom to Speak Up (FTSU) Guardian is an essential role within Manchester University NHS

Foundation Trust (MFT) for ensuring that our staff, students and volunteers are supported in

speaking up, that any barriers to this are addressed, a positive culture of speaking up in enabled and

fostered and that issues raised feed into learning and improvement across the Trust.

This role will operate independently, impartially and objectively alongside the Trust Executive

Management Team and Senior Leadership Teams to support transparency and actively engage and

enable all staff to speak up.

The FTSU Guardian will provide confidential support and advice to individuals who need to speak

up, and work with leaders throughout the organisation to provide a resolution to each concern raised.

The post-holder will support and contribute to the MFT Speaking Up culture and deputise for the

Lead Guardian at regional and national FTSU meetings.

The Guardian will develop and implement key elements of the Trusts FTSU Strategy such as creating

and implementing interactive and educational programmes for leaders at all levels. The post-holder

will develop and provide development and matrix management of the FTSU Champion network,

supporting local Champions to embed a speaking up culture throughout MFT.

Assist the Head of FTSU to embed the FTSU service across the Trust, in line with National

Guardian Office guidelines.

• Lead on FTSU initiatives across the Trust such as those to reduce barriers to speaking up
  
  

and increase engagement.

• Expand and develop the FTSU Champion network.
• Work with local Senior Leadership Teams to implement Hospital/MCS/LCO FTSU
  
  

improvement plans.

MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust In England with a turnover of £2.6bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.

Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.

We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.

We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.

At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Andrew Lloyd Job title: Lead Freedom to Speak Up Guardian Email address: [email protected] Telephone number: 07964 900492