The most important thing is that you speak up
There are several ways you can report sexual misconduct or harassment at the Trust.
We would encourage you to do speak up in whichever way you feel most comfortable:
- Speak with your line manager. If appropriate, your first point of contact and support is your line manager, or any other manager in your team, ward or division
- Report the incident on Radar. This ensures that a process is followed, risks are identified, and learning is possible. This will help to ensure that this incident doesn’t happen again
- Talk to a Freedom to Speak Up Guardian
- Speak to our Safeguarding Team
- Speak to your Trade Union representative
- Anonymously via the Freedom to Speak Up online form
- Talk to HR in confidence
- Refer into our Occupational Health Service
- Talk to a mental health first aider
- External support or advice can be found on the Acas website and may be available via your Local Authority website.
In any conversation about the misconduct, you can bring a trusted person, a friend or line manager, for example, with you for support.
What happens next?
How we respond to a report of sexual harassment or misconduct in the workplace.
Experiencing unwanted sexual behaviour from a colleague, patient or service user can cause distress and trigger previous trauma. There may also be a patient or service user care element to this behaviour that requires a clinical response, so you should speak to your manager or the person in charge as soon as possible after the event happens, if you can.
Any issue you raise regarding another member of staff will be dealt with in accordance with the Trust’s Workforce Policies:
- HR41 – Respect, Civility and Resolution Policy and/or
- HR01 – Maintaining Standards in a Just and Learning Culture.
An incident involving patients, service users, carers or another person should be reported on RADAR and your manager will be expected to support you, following the HR09 Support of People Who Experience Abuse, Discrimination & Violence Policy.