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"My focus on creating a compassionate, person-centred culture has contributed positively to staff recruitment by making our service a more attractive and supportive place to work. By fostering psychological safety, promoting inclusive leadership and ensuring staff feel valued and listened to, I have helped build a reputation for kindness, stability and professional growth. The visibility of strong leadership, opportunities for reflective learning and a nurturing environment also support better staff retention, which further enhances recruitment by signalling that people choose to stay. As a result, we are increasingly recognised as a service where staff thrive, feel proud of their work and are supported to deliver high‑quality, person-centred care."
Calling nursing and midwifery leaders!
Interested in exploring how to create person-centred cultures? Places where people want to work? Check out the comments from one of the previous participants below 👇
Details & application info are available on our website www.fons.org/programmes-d...
✒️Did you catch Novel Nurses? Part of the #ArtOfNursing series with @fonscharity.bsky.social. Speakers share examples of their work and discuss why they write fiction and how being a nurse helps.
📼Watch online: https://youtu.be/YVjDRWEv6YY?si=Lr7EZyVDUgNNM6H7
Hiya Midlands, we have 8 funded spots on our Qi practitioner 3 day programme. For Professional advocates in the midlands
Lead Facilitator talks about this year's FoNS Residential Programme
Take a look - it's a once-in-a-career opportunity
@jessicaldnurse.bsky.social @martinaconway.bsky.social @dr-kate-kirk-rn.bsky.social @lizjestico.bsky.social @pnamartin.bsky.social
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I love the gentle warmth & humanness in this blog. And *so much* skill & expertise.
The human & technical sides of care are totally compatible. And when caring for people at such a tender time of life.
Really inspiring.
Thanks for your blog @justacarehomeg1.bsky.social - it's a brilliant first-hand description of the range of responsibilities of care home nurses.
It's important we draw out, as nurses, the common threads across nursing, valuing all branches and places where people nurse equally
Nursing in the care sector: A brilliant FoNS Long Read, Lucy Corner invites nurses, educators, leaders & regulators to challenge internal hierarchies, rethink assumptions about acuity & complexity, & actively raise the profile of nursing in care settings.
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#SocialCareNursing
We are absolutely delighted to announce the dates & location of this year’s FoNS Residential Programme: Facilitating the development of person-centred cultures
22-26 June 2026 at Herstmonceux Castle, East Sussex
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Renewed optimism & restored motivation!
Is clinical supervision a mechanism to support person-centred practice?
Grace Cook considers an integrative review of the literature by Edgard et al
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Thoughts?
You are doing your bit to raise awareness!
On the 12th Day of FoNS-Mas: More programmes coming
looking forward to developing our programme offer in 2026, responding to the needs of health & social care.
Thank you for celebrating with us
#celebrate #nursing #safer #personcentred
A nursing workforce renewed: Day 11 of FoNS-Mas
With more than 700 nurses in health & care participating in our programmes, we delivered measurable gains in quality, leadership confidence & wellbeing
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Day 10 of FoNS-Mas is all about supporting PNAs
We are proud to have been working with PNAs this year - strengthening facilitation skills & introducing them to #RBSC an easy to use, effective & impactful form of restorative clinical supervision
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@pnamartin.bsky.social
On the 9th day of FoNS-Mas our facilitators delivered
Participatory & experiential learning: Learning from & with each other. Learning co-created with sound theoretical underpinnings. Nurses & leaders enabled to walk the talk
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On the 8th day of FoNS-Mas
Our programmes support nurses & nurse leaders to influence the culture of the workplace - developing psychological safety, empowering colleagues, creating learning environments & building places where nurses want to work
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@mrsbosanquet.bsky.social
A group of care workers have recorded a new version of Robbie Williams' 'Angels' in support of #Care Workers' Charity in a bid to reach the Christmas No.1!🎄Stream & download it here & bring lots of festive cheer to our amazing care workers! https://lnk.to/AngelsHomecaresGotTalentChoir
On the seventh day of FoNS-Mas, we thank our facilitators & associate facilitators for delivering restorative support to over 550 health and care professionals
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Incredible work with such amazing feedback @graceatfons.bsky.social @sueholt2024.bsky.social
On the 6th day ...
Real and growing co-production thanks to our lived-experience co-production leads, bringing new insights to programmes & ways of working
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Excited to see where this takes us in 2026
The fifth day of FoNS-Mas
We are very proud of our partnerships, bringing new insight & expertise and new ways of working. Delighted to be working with FoNS Trustee @drmarionlynch.bsky.social on the Art of Nursing webinars
@dancesyndromeuk.bsky.social
On the third day of FoNS-Mas
Our scholarships & programmes are widening access, rebalance opportunity & build more inclusive leadership pipelines across nursing &d social care
We are proud to support #SocialCare @skillsforcare.bsky.social @ncfcareforum.bsky.social @sueholt2024.bsky.social
Day 4: It's a big one! Life changing learning
Participants call our programmes “motivating”, “life changing”, and “a new dawn of care”, testimony to the uplift in morale, safety and leadership confidence!
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@mrsbosanquet.bsky.social
On the second day of FoNS-Mas ...
Five new scholars, especially those with least access to CPD, left our Residential Programme re-energised and ready to strengthen facilitation, person-centred practice and reflective leadership
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The Twelve Days of FoNS-Mas!
Sharing our 2025 achievements and impacts, looking forward to 2026!
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Public programme of RBCS: Open to all Session 1: Monday 02 March 09.30-12.30 Session 2: Monday 16 March 09.30-12.30 Session 3: Monday 23 March 09.30-12.30 Session 4: Monday 13 April 09.30-11.30 Session 5: Monday 27 April 09.30-11.30 £575pp Become a champion of RBCS, cascade to colleagues!
Starts March 2026
A champion and cascade model; participants feel confident to deliver #RestorativeClinicalSupervision (in the form of #RBCS) to colleagues
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Launching the Nursing Special Interest Group (SIG) for Creative Health! Co-led by Dr Marion Lynch (Art of Nursing) & Prof Vicky Ridgway, delivered with @fonscharity.bsky.social.
🗓️ 17 Dec, 12:30–1:30
🔗 Register: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/what-is-cr...
More info: ncch.org.uk/nursing-sig-...
Enabling Sharing Decision Making: The Influence of the Practice Environment webinar
10th Dec
9-10am (UK time)
Register via @eventbrite.bsky.social link!
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@fonscharity.bsky.social #PersonCentredCare #SharedDecisionMaking #PracticeEnvironment #HealthcareEvent
Find out more about the series, including links to videos focused on spotting the signs of sepsis in school-aged children and in children under five years old, on the hub below⬇️
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🔈We’re recruiting for two new members to join the Scottish Health Council and help shape the future of health and care services in Scotland.
Help us make a difference, follow the link in the comments and apply now!
📅 Closing date is Friday 5 December.
Absolutely - person-centred means all person, both those receiving and those giving care!
