It is very important that we give the very best care to the people we support and on this page you can find information about what we are doing to make sure it happens.

Our vision and strategy ensures that we always know where we are going and how we measure success.

On this page you will find information about our vision, values and strategies. These are:

• Our strategic direction
• Clinical and Social Care Strategy
• Enabling strategies:
  • Quality
  • Service User Engagement and Experience
  • Research, Innovation and Effectiveness
  • People
  • Freedom to Speak Up
  • Finance
  • Digital
  • Estates
  • Sustainability and Green Plan

Our vision is to improve the mental, physical and social wellbeing of the people in our communities.

We will do this by:

• Working with and speaking up for local people
• Making sure our services concentrate on prevention and early intervention
• Always improving what we do
• Locating services as close to peoples’ homes as we can
• Developing a confident workforce with colleagues who are good at what they do
• Ensuring excellent and sustainable services

Our values are a series of behaviours that everyone at SHSC is expected to follow.

We are proud to live and follow our values every day. They outline how we act to make sure we give the very best care to the people we support.

Our values are:

• We work together
• We are inclusive
• We keep improving
• We are respectful and kind 

We relaunched our values in April 2025.

Our strategic direction sets out where we want to be as an organisation by 2025 and what we need to do to get there.

We have worked with our staff, the leadership group, joint consultative forum, council of governors, board, partners and people who use services to review our strategic direction (where we want to be).

This work led us to update our strategic aims to show the importance of addressing inclusion for our staff and people who use our services. We have updated our strategic aims to:

• Deliver outstanding care
• Great place to work
• Reduce inequalities
• Effective use of resources

Find out more about our priorities in our Strategic Direction 2021-2025 here.

Clinical and Social Care Strategy

As part of the strategy there is a development plan.

This plan focuses on:

• Understanding what matters to people
• Knowing we make a difference
• Creating environments for excellence
• Transforming care in Sheffield
• Leading the system for outstanding care

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Our Clinical and Social Care Strategy gives more information about how we will do this and can be found here.

We have made sure that our enabling strategies support the delivery of our Clinical and Social Care Strategy. The enabling strategies are:

• Quality
• Service User Engagement and Experience
• Research, Innovation and Effectiveness
• People
• Freedom to Speak Up
• Finance
• Digital
• Estates
• Sustainability and Green Plan

Quality

Our Quality Strategy with more information about our priorities can be found here.

Service User Engagement and Experience

Our Service User Engagement and Experience Strategy gives more information about our priorities and can be found here.

Research, Innovation and Effectiveness

You can read more about our priorities in our Research, Innovation and Effectiveness Strategy here.

People

Our People Strategy sets out our priorities. You can read it here.

Freedom to Speak Up

You can read more about our priorities in our Freedom to Speak Up Strategy here.

Finance

You can read our Finance Strategy here.

Digital

Our Digital Strategy can be found here.

Estates

You can view our Estates Strategy here.

Sustainability Strategy and Green Plan

Our Sustainability Strategy and Green Plan has more information about our priorities You can view it here.