Scottish Recovery Indicator upgrade to be launched in October 2011

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Wednesday, 20 July 2011

The Scottish Recovery Indicator is to be re-launched as the SRI-2. SRI-2 is the short title for the revised and enhanced Scottish Recovery Indicator. The first edition of the Scottish Recovery Indicator (SRI) has been used by more than 150 mental health services since it was first piloted in 2008, and alongside that many other services and practitioners across the mental health sector have been using the tool for reflection on practice and service development.

The SRI has, since its inception, been subject to ongoing research and evaluation. This has resulted in various improvements that enhance the effectiveness of SRI and have allowed it to be more compact and user friendly.

SRI-2 will continue to support service development and reflective practice providing a framework for the gathering of information and feedback from a range of sources and stakeholders with a view to seeing how the data relates to ten recovery indicators. SRI-2 retains all its previous features and now additionally provides for input and feedback from informal carers.

SRI-2 supports teams to reflect on all aspects of policy and practice, strengths and weaknesses and helps them develop action plans that lead to continuous improvement, and increased service user and carer satisfaction.

The process has been shown in practice to be helpful and a positive experience for the service, for example see the PIRAMHIDS case study on SRI. This case study reports a staff nurse involved in the pilot as saying: “audit tools usually identify deficits and do not recognise good practice, but the SRI is different, I’ve never felt more valued or motivated in my entire nursing career.” Furthermore, a service user involved in SRI stated: “I found the exercise interesting, and it opened my mind to the potential for future services.”

It is recognised that staff and services are very busy and that time is a precious commodity and because of this SRI-2 has been designed to meet the objectives of a number of important policy drivers and initiatives including:

The SRI is also designed in accordance with the values and best practice as exemplified by Realising Recovery and the new 10 Essential Shared Capabilities, updated for 2011.

SRI-2 is a comprehensive, evidence based service development process that:

Supports learning and reflection leading to measurable improvement.
Encourages managers, staff, service users, carers and other stakeholders to work in partnership towards recovery focused services.
Helps with the problem-solving, teamwork, communication, values, and skills required to support recovery.
Helps services to celebrate success and good practice as well as make improvements.
Helps services sustain the improved standards of performance, achievement, and success.
Helps make the right thing easier to do.
Engages staff in continuous reflection and improvement of their practice.
Creates the systemic change needed to transform individuals, teams, and the service environment.
Supports commitment to equality of experience and outcomes.
Elicits and values service user reported outcomes and experiences.

SRI-2 Learning Networks

As with the original SRI, there will be training and support to help services get the best from the latest version of the tool. The training is a three day course and participants are encouraged to remain in contact throughout and after the training and share experience of using SRI-2 and sharing the learning and knowledge that inevitably emerges.

Participation in these learning communities helps transform the practices in services; helps practitioners facilitate SRI-2 confidently; engages them in ongoing peer support, coaches and mentors them through the change process; and helps them assess the impact of their efforts, in order to continuously improve performance.

SRI-2 Learning Networks result in learning experiences that helps practitioners:

Engage with and complete an SRI-2.
Integrate recovery knowledge and skills, with values based practice.
Achieve their aspirations in terms of facilitating service development.
Participate in meaningful experiential learning.
Provide exemplary person centred, recovery focused services.
Demonstrate the connection to other mental health policies and reports.
Coach and support other members of the learning network through the SRI-2 process.

UPDATE 20th SEPTEMBER 2011: PLEASE NOTE WE ARE NO LONGER ACCEPTING REGISTRATIONS FOR THE NEXT ROUND OF SRI-2 LEARNING NETWORKS STARTING IN OCTOBER 2011.

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