Engaging NHS Managers and Support Staff

• The guide has core messages for each staff group to help them understand how their role can impact on research in their Trust

• It is designed to be accessible, quick to use, easy to navigate, and relevant to staff in the Trust

• For staff to engage with it it needs to be incorporated into mainstream staff information/development/communications material, typically the Trust staff intranet. Using local pictures and visual material is encouraged.

• It aims to create a pathway to further information which is Trust based, local, as well as offering national options.

• Local information can be built onto the required core content and navigation adjusted to suit Trust platforms whilst being made as easy as possible to use.

It is useful to be aware of it at least but it may be useful to you in interactions with different non research staff as the guide addresses each of the following categories of staff:

• Clinical Staff

• Clinical Management

• Trust Chair, Executives, and Senior Managers

• Corporate Services

• Communications

• Other patient contact roles

Experience shows that it is important to demonstrate how research adds value. There are perceptions that research costs more and is a burden to care whereas we know this is incorrect.

Click the button below to access a brief introduction to the guide, which may be useful for sending on to others.