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We now have our new values: Ambition, Respect, Compassion (ARC)

August 2, 2022

Thank you to colleagues across the organisation who, over the past few months have inputted in the discussions about what our values will be. Our values are a reflection of what is best about us and what matters most to us, the people we care for and the wider community we serve. They support the delivery of our Patients, People, Population plan as well as the important programmes of work we are doing now and have planned for the future.

Our new values are:

  • Ambition: We’re ambitious for our communities. We want to make a difference, improving life chances and health outcomes. We’re ambitious for our people. We want them to be happy here, to feel supported to achieve their own goals and ambitions. We’re ambitious for our Trust, open to new ideas, developing new technology and treatments to provide the best possible care. Working together, and alongside our partners to continually improve.
  • Respect: We are a place of inclusivity. We value, celebrate and draw strength from the diversity among us, and in our communities. This is what makes us special. Our people and our patients feel listened to. Everyone’s voice counts. We’re a place where people feel safe to speak up knowing their voices will be heard. Respect and dignity for everyone.
  • Compassion: We’re a welcome, friendly Trust. We have care, kindness and compassion at our heart. For us, everyone matters. We’re a place where compassion is not just for our patients and their families, but a right for all of us. Our people are amazing, meeting challenges head on. They put patients first, day after day, to deliver the best care they can.

We want to use our values as a guide for how we all behave with everyone we come into contact with as we do our jobs. This is where we need everyone’s help. Between us all we will develop organisational behaviours that will become a framework to guide how we all behave with each other, our patients and their families.

This will be at the heart of our organisation. We’re calling them our ARC values. A strong, united culture will help us deliver our strategy and make SWB a good place to be.

Why not join us for one of our short virtual workshops below and help us begin to develop behaviours in support of our new ARC values: