"Rampton’s activities and socials and Involvement"

I currently am an in-house resident in Rampton Hospital. I have been in Rampton since November 2017. Since my arrival to Rampton I have tried my best to get involved and engage in quite a lot of Rampton’s activities and socials. I am currently on the patient’s council and also the patient’s involvement group and also attend the patient’s forums. I also attend the gym, Southwell and also Creswell but what I have personally enjoyed and valued the most is the patients interviewing panel. I first took the training class which trains us ready for the real panels and this was ran by a Mrs Day with the help of some of the outside volunteers acting as candidates.

Mrs Day made this training session very easy to follow and also with the help of the volunteers a fun and enjoyable learning experience. Also, very involved in the interview process and learning is a Mrs Alder who once again the same as Mrs Day makes this a very enjoyable but serious process. Mrs Alder does not take a view in the Decision process by patients or the marking, she does help take notes which is also real help just to make sure that as a whole we don’t miss any vital information so as not to hinder the candidate’s chance of being employed if something is missed. As I have stated I am totally for this programme as I feel that it is such an important part of Rampton Hospital and as formally stated Mrs Alder and Mrs Day make the whole experience enjoyable and they are more than respectful and supportive of all the patients involved in the interview process.

They have made the experience more than that for me and I feel as though I'm at home spending time with my loved ones/family in a sense that it just feels normal and that speaks loads for how calm and relaxed and just how enjoyable they do make us feel. As well as Mrs Alder and Mrs Day there is also volunteers / service users who come to the interviews as well to help the process and also take notes as does Mrs Alder for the same reasons as to we do not miss anything and they are also very professional and respectful also.

In every sense of the word they as a team amazing at the process of the interviewing experience through training to actually becoming a full fledged valued member of the team so once again as I don’t feel possible to say enough, Mrs Alder and Mrs Day and the volunteers are so friendly, helpful, respectful and professional and I can only praise them as people, as staff and as colleagues and most importantly as friends and congratulate them on a job well done and I truly hope that this catches on in other establishments also because it helps with Recovery, with team building and just being brave and confident enough to speak and ask questions. Not only this but also with motor skills in listening and writing, in taking turns to speak, in communicating everything that is needed, in concentrating and basically just getting on with others and working as a whole rather than a one.

Not one member is more important than the others and we all bring our own skills and with that there is never anything missed. Also around 80-90% of the time the patients panel is mirrored by the actual staff/manager panel and we nearly all the time catch the same feelings about each candidate so this just proves that this process works and is functional and is also being used correctly and professionally by all individuals. I feel personally that Mrs Day and Mrs Alder do not get the praise they deserve for the training programme and the actual day to day running and working of these panels from arranging the panel to helping with all aspects of the process, without them this programme would not be the same nor would it work as well as it does.

So in a whole I can only praise Mrs Cath Alder and Mrs Amy Day along with the volunteers and also the other patients on the panel as I am only as good as my team and the interview panels both patients and staff are more like a family than colleagues and this is testament to how both Mrs Day and Mrs Alder treat us and make us feel so comfortable at the panels so yeh once again thankyou to both of these marvellous women and big thumbs up to the whole experience and as stated before hopefully this process will catch on at other establishments as it is such a big, important part of the employment of the correct staff.

Thank you for taking the time to read this and also thank you to all involved in the interview process, especially Mrs Alder and Mrs Day.

Yours respectfully