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Who We Are

Our principal activities are to support and enable people with mental health problems and Learning Disabilities to live fulfilling lives. We believe in recovery and understand the importance of good physical health, maintaining relationships and incorporating treatment into an active life.

Service users and carers are partners in their care and our improvement journey. Our People Participation strategy seeks to ensure meaningful co-production so that service users work with us to design, deliver, improve and evaluate.

Our focus on partnership with our local communities is enabling us to better provide excellent advice and treatment as well as adopt a more flexible approach. We are committed to research and innovation and our ambition is to become a national leader in the provision of high quality and cost-effective mental health services.

We provide a range of health and social care services specialising in mental health across Norfolk and Suffolk, including:

  • Adult acute and community services
  • Services for children, families and young people
  • Dementia and complexity in later life
  • Learning disability and neurodevelopmental services
  • Low and medium secure services
  • Wellbeing

We have inpatient and specialist facilities across Norfolk and Suffolk, with smaller bases in rural locations. Many of our services are offered in the community, enabling service users to receive the support they need in a familiar environment.

Our Values

Our values and behaviours are a set of guiding principles we endeavour to live up to every day.

They aim to ensure that people have the best possible experience of mental health care. They also aim to ensure that our staff have the best possible experience of working for our Trust.

We have grouped the values under three headings: Positively, Respectfully, Together.

Click here for more information on our three values.

The Trust at a Glance

Annual Turnover

£370

Million

Annual Surplus

£0.6

Million (2021/22)

Total Workforce

4,700

Staff

Number of Beds

400+

 
Our HR team - click here for our HR Structure.

Case Studies

Paul Johnson

Priscilla Nzounhend

Jo Sheen

Lewis Burton

Ade Adetukasi

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Paul Johnson – Associate Director of Nursing

“I am the Associate Director of Nursing and have 20 years’ service with NSFT. I was only planning to be here for 2 years, but I think this is a great example of what the organisation has been able to offer me. I have worked as a clinician, a nurse, a psychotherapist, I spent some time in HR and more recently as an OD Consultant leading on the development of our values. The culture piece is really important to me, and I think the organisation has really embraced it. It’s a great organisation to work for!”

Priscilla Nzounhend – Modern Matron

“I am a firm believer that a happy staff is a happy patient. As a manager, when you focus on the improvement of the experience of your staff, it has a direct impact on the quality of care the patient receives. Loving your staff pays dividend and its always the patient that benefits at the end.”

Lewis burton - Organisational Development Practitioner

“Working in Organisation Development within NSFT is a fascinating opportunity to not only positively change the lives of all our employees, but also impact the amazing care they are able to give day in and day out. Working at NSFT provides you with a challenging yet exciting environment, where each day presents a variety of interesting opportunities to get your teeth into. I get to work with such a wide variety of people and projects across the Trust, one day I may facilitate a workshop to the next where I’m analysing data to help understand issues and influence ways forward. The people I interact with each day show such passion and thirst to make change happen that it makes you want to go back for more each time.”

Jo Sheen - Joint Head of HR Business Partnering

“I thoroughly enjoy working at NSFT, the teams across Human Resources are always keen to share their knowledge, work together on key projects and use each others unique skills and experience, to provide the best responses and support to our clinical and corporate services.

We are encouraged to think innovatively to provide the best workforce solutions. We are a team of individuals with hugely different backgrounds and experience and, being true HR professionals, we love finding out about each other, so we can maximise our strengths and support each other to reach our full potential.

Our HR teams have a sense of pride in their work, they are knowledgeable about services and are keen to be seen as a true ally to our clinical service areas and to make a difference to service users lives.

The HR resource is highly sought after, across our clinical areas, and the alignment of the Chief People Officer role as a Deputy Chief Executive, confirms the gravitas, influence and high regard our HR function has across the Trust.

We are working in challenging times and I am surrounded every day by highly resilient and effective HR professionals who are focussed and engaged on making a difference to our service users lives”

Ade Adetukasi - Associate Director of Employee Experience & Organisational Development

“Both roles will be hugely rewarding as the post holders will have the unique opportunity of working in a complex and multifaceted context, but one where there is great opportunity to create value and make significant difference to staff and our service users.”