Utilising Team Recovery Implementation Plan (TRIP): embedding recovery-focused practice in rehabilitation services
| Date | 14 August 2017 |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1108/MHSI-03-2017-0008 |
| Pages | 240-247 |
| Published date | 14 August 2017 |
| Author | Geraldine Vacher |
| Subject Matter | Health & social care,Mental health,Social inclusion |
Utilising Team Recovery Implementation
Plan (TRIP): embedding recovery-focused
practice in rehabilitation services
Geraldine Vacher
Abstract
Purpose –The purpose of this paper is to provide an account of Central and North West London NHS
Foundation Trust Mental Health Rehabilitation Services’experience of utilising Team Recovery
Implementation Plan (TRIP) as a framework to embed recovery-focused practice. The paper explores the
challenges to creating recovery-focused services in inpatient settings and sets out how using TRIP has
enabled frontline staff to work in partnership with people who use services and coproduce changes in
practice and service development.
Design/methodology/approach –The paper draws on the process of utilising TRIP as a methodology to
embed recovery-focused practice.
Findings –The account finds that using TRIP as a framework to embed recovery-focused practice supports
frontline staff to work in partnership with people who use services and share responsibility for delivering
recovery-oriented services, measure progress and drive change.
Originality/value –The paper provides an informative account of implementing TRIP as a framework to
embed recovery-focused practice in mental health rehabilitation services. It explores the challenges faced by
services in creating recovery-focused services and sets out how the TRIP has been used by teams as a
methodology for coproducing, co-delivering and co-reviewing action plans. The paper gives practical
examples of keeping the TRIP process alive and identifies several changes to practice and service
developments achieved since TRIP’s implementation.
Keywords Rehabilitation, Mental health, Coproduction, Recovery, Team Recovery Implementation Plan
Paper type Case study
Introduction
In 2011, Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust (CNWL) became a pilot site for
Implementing Recovery through Organisational Change (ImROC). Key challenges to creating
recovery-focused services include changing the nature of the day-to-day interactions and the
quality of experience for people who use mental health services (Shepherd et al., 2008).
The Team Recovery Implementation Plan (TRIP) has been developed to facilitate coproduction
and to utilise the skills and resources of frontline staff and the people they work with to shape and
deliver recovery-focused services (Repper and Perkins, 2013).
Utilising TRIP has provided CNWL Mental Health Rehabilitation Services with a framework to
develop and embed recovery principles into day-to-day practice.
Creating more recovery-oriented services and promoting recovery-focused
practice within teams
Based on the principles of self-management and self-determination, recovery-focused services
support people to live a meaningful life with or without the continuing presence of mental health
Geraldine Vacher is based at
Adult Mental Health
Rehabilitation Services, Central
and North West London NHS
Foundation Trust, London, UK.
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VOL. 21 NO. 4 2017, pp. 240-247, © Emerald Publishing Limited, ISSN 2042-8308 DOI 10.1108/MHSI-03-2017-0008
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