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Caring,
discovering,
growing:
Together
Northumberland, Tyne and Wear
NHS Foundation Trust Strategy

2017 – 2022
About us                                                                          Our vision and values
                                                                                        Our vision is:

      Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation                                      “To be a leader in the delivery of high
      Trust (NTW) provides a wide range of mental health,                               quality care and a champion for
      learning disability and neuro-rehabilitation services                             those we serve”
      to a population of 1.4 million people in the North
                                                                                        Our vision is underpinned by a set of core values which we refreshed during 2013,
      East of England.                                                                  in consultation with a range of partners, including service users, carers, staff and
                                                                                        governors.
      In September 2016 the CQC rated our Trust as ‘Outstanding’ and we became
      one of only two non-acute trusts in England to be awarded an overall              Our values ensure that we will strive to provide the best care, delivered by the best
      rating of Outstanding.                                                            people, to achieve the best outcomes. Our concerns are quality and safety and we
                                                                                        will ensure that our values are reflected in all we do:
      We are one of the largest mental health and disability organisations in the
      country with an income of approximately £300 million. We employ over 6,000
      staff, operate from over 60 sites and provide a range of comprehensive services
      including some regional and national services.
                                                                                         Caring and                   Respectful                   Honest and
                                                                                         compassionate                                             transparent
                                                                                         Put ourselves in other       Value the skill and          Have no secrets
                                                                                         people’s shoes               contribution of others       Be open and truthful
                                                                                         Listen and offer hope        Give respect to              Accept what is wrong
                                                                                         Focus on recovery            all people                   and strive to put
                                                                                         Be approachable              Respect and                  it right
                                                                                         Be sensitive and             embrace difference           Share information
                                                                                         considerate                  Encourage innovation         Be accountable for
                                                                                         Be helpful                   and be open to               our actions
                                                                                                                      new ideas
                                                                                         Go the extra mile
                                                                                                                      Work together and
                                                                                                                      value our partners

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Shaping our strategy - Together                                                 Some key facts
                                                                                      Here are some key facts about the world around us..

      In 2015, the Board of Directors agreed    We have taken into account the                                                     Poor mental health has a
                                                                                                                                   social and economic cost of
      that the time was right to review our     national and local strategies that                                                 £105 billion a year
      strategy. From the start we took an       are relevant to the people using
      inclusive approach to refreshing our      our services, carers, our staff and                                                The North East                                        50%                               75%
      strategy and over the eighteen month      our organisation as a whole.                                                       has some of the highest rates of
                                                                                                                                   mental illness in England
      period while we developed the strategy,
      we have tried to involve lots of          The involvement work took many                                                     By 2030 it is estimated that there

      people including:                         forms and some key themes
                                                                                                                                   will be approximately
                                                                                                                                                                                          Half                             75%
                                                                                                                                   Two Million                                   of mental health problems        of mental health problems
                                                emerged. These were:                                                               more adults in the UK with a mental          are established by the age of    are established by the age of

      • Service users and carers
                                                                                                                                   heath problem than there were in 2013
                                                                                                                                                                                     14 years                         24 years
      • Our staff                               • including people
      • Our three clinical groups               • being people centred
      • The Council of Governors                • recovery                               1 in 4 adults                                                                                            1 in 4 adults (26%)
      • The Board                               • developing pathways                    are diagnosed with a mental illness
                                                                                         at some stage in their life
                                                                                                                                                                                                  young people in the UK experience
                                                                                                                                                                                                  suicidal thoughts

                                                • real support
                                                • wellbeing
                                                • quality
                                                • expertise
                                                • listening                                                                                                                                                     of people with a mental illness face
                                                                                            9 out of 10 people in prison have
                                                                                            mental health or a drug and
                                                                                            alcohol problem
                                                                                                                                                                              42%                               stigma and discrimination at least

                                                                                                                                                                                                                once a month

      The feedback from all of those involved has helped us shape this strategy,            Suicide is rising and is the leading
                                                                                            cause of death for
      identify what is important and determine our strategic ambitions.                     Men aged
                                                                                            15-49                                                                                                               of people with neurological
      The title of our strategy, ‘Caring, discovering, growing: Together’                                                                                                          Over                         condition do not think that

      sums up the themes and comments which everyone made.                                                                                                                    40%                               local services work well together

      Thank you to everyone who helped us with this important work.                                                                                                     People with a learning disability in England on average die

                                                                                            1 in 5 mothers suffer from depression                                       16 years earlier than the rest of the population
                                                                                            with the costs of perinatal mental
                                                                                            health estimated at

                                                                                            £1.8 billion                                                                Over 4 Million
                                                                                                                                                                        people in England have a neurological condition

                                                                                            15.4 Million
                                                                                            people in England ( over a quarter of the population) have a long term condition, and are
                                                                                            at a far higher risk of developing mental health problems than the rest of the population

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The challenges and opportunities

      As the NHS strives to continue to            The NHS is however facing these              Alongside this, mental health in              We have an exciting opportunity
      provide high quality services, and to live   challenges at a time of unprecedented        particular has never had a higher profile     through our local partnerships to
      up to the high expectations of patients      austerity and adjusting to an era of         in society. After many years of fighting      encourage our local health partners to
      and the public, we must have regard to       much tighter public finances. In addition    hard to challenge the stigma associated       understand the benefits of providing
      today’s challenges and anticipate the        financially challenged local authorities     with mental ill health, the tide is finally   a more integrated approach to the
      challenges of the future.                    have reduced their spending on social        turning. Celebrities, pop stars and the       physical, mental and social wellbeing of
                                                   care, impacting on the demand for            Royal family have opened up about             the people and communities we serve.
      People are living much longer which is       health services. There are also shortfalls   their personal experiences, and charities
      good news, but an ageing population          in the available workforce including         such as Time to Change and Heads              The next five years will be a time of
      presents a number of serious challenges      medical, nursing and other staff groups.     Together have supported this.                 change for the whole of the NHS and
      for the health and social care system.       To meet these challenges, health                                                           also for NTW. This strategy provides
      By 2021, the number of people living         and social care services must change         A new light has been shone on mental          an opportunity for us to play our part
      with dementia in the UK is projected         fundamentally.                               health services, which have traditionally     in ensuring that the people we serve
      to exceed one million and dementia                                                        been described as a ‘cinderella service’.     are able to have their voices heard in
      is estimated to cost the NHS local           This means everyone working differently      The phrase ‘parity of esteem’ has             these changes.
      authorities and families £23 billion         and ‘smarter’. It means altering or          been coined to underline the need to
      a year.                                      completely reshaping services giving         see mental health services as equally
                                                   people better quality and experience         important to other parts of the
      The cost of providing care is getting        for less money. It means reinvesting         health service.
      more expensive. The NHS now                  any money saved in more and better
      provides a much more extensive and
      sophisticated range of treatments and
                                                   services and so extending access to
                                                   care.
                                                                                                Change for the better is happening,
                                                                                                and more is to come. The work we have
                                                                                                                                                    “A new light
      procedures than could ever have been
      envisaged when it was established. New       Only by getting everyone involved and
                                                                                                done with our partners around the Five
                                                                                                Year Forward View for Mental Health                 has been shone
      drugs, technologies and therapies have
      made a major contribution to curing
                                                   working together, will a network of
                                                   services be provided which can meet
                                                                                                and the Crisis Care Concordat’s have led
                                                                                                to some significant developments such               on mental
      disease and extending the length and         the changing needs of people in the          as street triage, enhanced psychiatric
      quality of people’s lives.                   21st century within the limits of the        liaison services and better access and              health services”
                                                   budgets available.                           community services.

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Our Quality Goals

      NTW initially identified our Quality Goals in 2009, drawing upon feedback from               Each year we also set new quality priorities to help us achieve our Quality Goals.
      patients, staff and our partners. Following feedback from those involved in                  These priorities are identified in partnership with service users, carers, staff and
      developing this strategy we have reviewed and updated our Quality Goals.                     partners as well as information gained from incidents, complaints and
                                                                                                   other learning.
         Quality Goal One             Quality Goal Two             Quality Goal Three
                                                                                                   Our Quality Goals are three things that will help us achieve our vision by providing
         Keeping you safe             Working with you, your       Ensuring the right services
                                                                                                   the overarching framework for this strategy. We will deliver our vision and our
                                      carers and your family to    are in the right place at the
                                                                                                   Quality Goals by meeting our strategic ambitions.
                                      support your journey         right time to meet all your
                                                                   health and wellbeing needs

                      In 5 years’ time what would success look like?
       Learning from experience      Working together with         Service users “living better
                                     service users, carers         for longer”
                                     and communities
       Openness in reporting         Principles of the Triangle    Evidence based care
                                     of Care embedded              consistently provided

       Demonstrating improvement     Co-production at all levels   Meaningful outcomes

       Reduction in incidents        Improved positive service     Timely access to 24/7
       of harm                       user and carer feedback       services, in accordance
                                                                   with need

       Smooth transitions from one   Seamless care across all      Care close to home and
       service to another            partners-no barriers          elimination of out of
                                                                   area placements

       Better suicide prevention     Wellness Recovery Action      An integrated approach to
                                     Plans (WRAP) embedded         meeting physical, mental
                                                                   health and social care needs

                                     Supporting resilience in
                                     people and communities

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Our strategic ambitions                                                               Another way to think about these is:

      We have developed six strategic ambitions. These are:

      1. Working together with service            2. With people, communities and
                                                                                                  Caring             Discovering                Growing
      users and carers we will provide            partners, together we will promote
      excellent care, supporting people on        prevention, early intervention
      their personal journey to wellbeing.        and resilience.                            Providing excellent     Doing everything        A centre of
                                                                                             care, supporting        we can to prevent ill   excellence for mental
                                                                                             people on their         health and offering     health and disability
                                                                                             personal journey        support early           support
      3. Working with partners there will be      4. The Trust’s mental health and           to wellbeing
      “no health without mental health”           disability services will be sustainable                            Striving for joined     Sustainable services
      and services will be “joined up”.           and deliver real value to the people       A great place to work   up services             that are good value
                                                  who use them.                                                                              for money

      5. The Trust will be a centre of            6. The Trust will be regarded as a
      excellence for mental health                great place to work.
      and disability.

                                                                                                                        Together

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Strategic                                                                          Our successful strategy will mean;         We will deliver community services
                                                                                                                                    which demonstrably deliver value for
      Ambition One                                                                       • Service users and carers will have a    money in terms of productivity
                                                                                            positive experience of our services and and outcomes.
                                                                                            will recommend the care delivered by
                                                                                            the Trust.                              Building the right support -
      Working together with service           When we asked people:                      • Our services will comply with national Transforming services for people
      users and carers we will provide        ‘What good would look like in five            and local access, quality and 24/7      with learning disabilities
      excellent care, supporting people       years’ time?’ these are some of               crisis response standards.              and autism:
                                              therecurring words people used:
      on their personal journey to                                                       • A comprehensive set of care
                                                                                            pathways are fully established.         We will close the agreed number of
      wellbeing. Everyone involved in         • Seven day services                                                                  adult secure beds, in line with the
      helping us shape this strategy          • Meaningful outcomes
                                                                                         • We will deliver meaningful outcomes
                                                                                                                                    national programme.
      overwhelmingly agreed that                                                            which demonstrate effectiveness.
                                              • Co-production
      service users and carers should                                                                                               We will work to ensure a patch wide
                                              • Evidence based                           There are also some major service
      be at the centre of everything                                                     developments we have planned that
                                                                                                                                    approach to improving services for
                                              • Local services                                                                      people with a learning disability and
      we do.                                                                             will contribute towards this
                                              • Responsive                                                                          autism, using our expertise alongside
                                                                                         strategic ambition:
      Getting this right is the single most   • Recovery                                                                            partners to transform the services across
      important thing we can do in NTW to     • Person centred                                                                      the whole pathway in all localities.
                                                                                         Delivering excellence in
      have a positive impact upon people’s    • Accessible                               patient care:
      health and wellbeing.                                                                                                         We will develop our provision of world
                                              Meeting this ambition is about more                                                   class inpatient services for people with
                                                                                         Inpatient care is provided in fit for
      When we asked people about              than reaching milestones in terms of                                                  autism with the most complex needs.
                                                                                         purpose facilities, with common
      what we must do over the next           improvements to service provision. It      standards of care and support,
      five years they said:                   is fundamentally about changing the                                                   You can see more about all of our
                                                                                         responsively, seven days a week,
                                              relationship between people who                                                       detailed plans at the end of the booklet.
                                                                                         within the constraints of the resources
      • Communication between staff,          work for NTW and people who use our        available to us.
      service users, carers and families      services and care for them. It involves
      • Co-production                         creating equal, trusting and therapeutic   Great care in your community:
                                              relationships between individual service
                                              users, their families and carers           Roll out new community evidence based
                                              and professionals.                         care pathways across Northumberland,
                                                                                         North Tyneside, Newcastle and
                                                                                         Gateshead and ensure that our
                                                                                         community services work alongside
                                                                                         our partners to ensure people’s holistic
                                                                                         needs are met.

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Strategic                                                                              Meeting this ambition will require us to work even more closely with our partners
                                                                                             so that we can support people who are outside the traditional reach of our

      Ambition Two                                                                           services. In particular we will focus on the difference that children and young
                                                                                             people’s services, and IAPT services can make, as well as continuing to improve
                                                                                             access to services that people use at times of crisis.

      With people, communities and               This strategic ambition says very clearly
                                                 that NTW has a role to play in making       Our successful strategy will                 There are also some major service
      partners, together we will promote
                                                 sure that our communities and local         lead to:                                     developments we have planned
      prevention, early intervention                                                                                                      that will contribute towards this
                                                 partners focus on the causes of poor
      and resilience.                                                                        • Children and young people will have       strategic ambition:
                                                 health, and in making improvements.
                                                 It also highlights the importance of           quick access to high quality mental
      The future health of millions of children,                                                health and learning disability services   Building resilience for people and
                                                 ending the stigma around mental ill
      the sustainability of the NHS, and                                                        when they need it.                        communities: We will play a leading
                                                 health and disabilities.
      the economic prosperity of Britain all                                                 • Easy access to psychological support      role with partners, as part of our joint
      now depends on a radical upgrade in        When we asked people about                     for people who need it.                   Sustainability and Transformation Plan,
      prevention and public health.              what we must do over the next                                                            in developing a patch wide approach
                                                                                             • More people living with mental health
                                                 five years they said:                          problems and disabilities will find and   to building resilience for people and
      In mental health and disability services,                                                                                           communities. We will work with all
                                                 • That they want us to lead, be               stay in work.
      we have known for a long time that                                                                                                  partners and agencies to enable people,
      employment is vital to health and             courageous, tackle stigma and use        • Improvements in the quality of life
                                                                                                                                          their families, carers and communities
      should be recognised as a positive            our expertise and knowledge.                outcomes for people living with
                                                                                                                                          to better support mental illness
      outcome. The NHS must play a greater       • Promotion, prevention and resilience        mental health problems and disabilities
                                                                                                                                          and disability.
      role in supporting people to find or          and partnership working is essential.    • Reduction in suicides
      keep a job. Housing is also critical to                                                • Easy access to crisis response services.   Our future for children and young
      the prevention of mental health            When we asked people:                                                                    people - improved access to
                                                                                             • As a part of the health and justice
      problems and the promotion of              ‘What good would look like in                                                            community services:
                                                                                                pathway, improve access to liaison
      recovery. Those in the criminal justice    five years’ time?’ these are some
                                                                                                and diversion services.
      system experiencing mental health          of the things they said:                                                                 We will promote and play an integral
                                                                                             • An end to the stigma around mental
      problems and disabilities need better                                                                                               part in delivering a system wide
                                                 • Partnership working                          ill health and disabilities.
      support with agencies working                                                                                                       approach to improving services
      together to provide the right support.     • Independence                                                                           for children and young people,
                                                 • Healthy                                                                                collaborating with all partners.
                                                 • No stigma
                                                 • Collaboration
                                                 • Working with communities
                                                 • Community engagement
                                                 • Wellbeing

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Strategic
      Ambition Three

      Working with partners there will           prevention reflecting their higher risk of   acute Hospitals. We will also need          The major service development
      be ‘no health without mental               poor physical health.                        to continue to build partnerships           which contributes to this strategic
      health’ and services will be                                                            with local GP’s and relevant                ambition is:
                                                 When we asked people about                   clinical networks.
      ‘joined up’.
                                                 what we must do over the next
      At least four million of the 15 million
                                                 five years they said:                        Our successful strategy will                Enabling the
      people in England with a long                                                           mean that we:
      term physical health condition also
                                                 • Stop the division between mind
                                                    and body
                                                                                                                                          system to support
      have a mental health problem. The                                                       • Improve the physical health of those
      interdependency of mental health           • Use your expertise to bring on others       with severe mental illness.               your whole needs:
      and physical health has significant           - acute hospitals, other organisations    • Improve the physical health of those
      implications for individual patients.         and agencies                                with a learning disability.               We will, as an integral part of the
      Shockingly, people with a learning                                                      • Improve the mental health of those       Sustainability and Transformation Plan,
      disability in England on average die       When we asked people:                          suffering with long term                  promote a patch wide approach to
      16 years earlier than the rest of          ‘What good would look like in                  medical conditions.                       better supporting people’s whole needs,
      the population.                            five years’ time?’                                                                       working with all local acute hospitals
                                                                                              • Support the resilience and wellbeing
                                                 these are some of the things they said:                                                  and community service providers to
                                                                                                of carers.
      Addressing the inequality arising from                                                                                              integrate mental health into physical
      the lack of an integrated approach to      • Joined up map of care and support          • Improve access to specialist mental      health pathways.
      mental health, disabilities and physical                                                  health services to those presenting
                                                 • Making a difference
      health needs, and improving the health                                                    with mental health problems in
                                                 • Educate                                      acute hospitals.
      of our local populations and reducing
                                                 • Pathways                                   • Improve the physical health of
      the need for hospital admissions, is an
      integral aim of the local Sustainability   • Partnership                                  patients with severe mental illness in
      and Transformation Plans.                  • No barriers                                  our inpatient services.
                                                                                              • Improve access to specialist perinatal
      The Five Year Forward View stresses        Meeting this ambition will require us          mental health care for mothers,
      the need to make physical and mental       to continue to prioritise the focus on         infants and young children.
      health care equally important and says     the physical healthcare and the health       • Improve the mental health and
      that by 2020/21, at least 280,000          and wellbeing of all of those that             wellbeing of older people in
      people living with severe mental health    use our services. With the support of          residential care homes.
      problems should have their physical        commissioners we have developed a
      health needs met. They should be           range of psychiatric liaison services in
      offered screening and secondary            partnership with our partners in local

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Strategic
      Ambition Four

      The Trust’s mental health                 with the job that we do best, providing   Our successful strategy                       The major service development
      and disability services will be           the best support we can to our service    will mean:                                    which contributes to this strategic
      sustainable and deliver real value        users and their families.                                                               ambition is:
      to the people who use them.                                                         • Being financially sound and meeting
                                                When we asked people:                       all of our financial targets
      The NHS has suffered severe financial
                                                ‘What good would look like                • Providing services that offer real value   Our future for
                                                in five years’ time?’                       to the people that use them and are
      restraint in recent years and this is
      unlikely to ease. At the same time,
                                                these are some of the things they said:     sustainable in the long term                children and young
      demand for many of our services is                                                  • Playing our part in a financially
      rising and expectations from the public   • Financially secure                        sustainable and thriving Sustainability     People - care for
      are becoming higher.                      • Economically viable                       and Transformation approach,
                                                • Simpler organisation                      operating collaboratively and               the most vulnerable
      We have been successful in meeting        • A well-oiled machine                      transparently to deliver high value
      this challenge of providing ever better                                               pathways of care across organisational      We will not provide young people’s
                                                • Stability
      and more accessible services with the                                                 barriers and mutual organisational          specialist inpatient services from the
      same or less money over recent years,     • Performing well                           sustainability across the patch.            current location of Alnwood in the
      and this challenge is set to continue.    • Best services                           • Growing our service offering               medium term and will re-provide
                                                • Well resourced                            where this supports the underlying          those services from alternative
      Money isn’t the driver for what we                                                    sustainability of our organisation and      accommodation or exit from
      do or the reason we come to work.         Meeting this ambition underpins and         our existing services.                      the market.
      But this strategic ambition is about      enables all of our other hopes. Our
      helping to manage the delivery of great   Outstanding rating gives us confidence                                                  We will develop a sustainable model
      quality sustainable care for the long     that we are doing the best we can for                                                   of care for children and young people
      term by living within the resources we    our service users, and our continuing                                                   requiring specialist inpatient support.
      have available and ensuring that we       financial health means that we are able
      maintain the confidence of the wider      to set our own direction for the future
      system as a Trust that delivers. Our      without undue attention from our
      Outstanding rating gives us confidence    regulators. This enables us to get on
      that we are doing the best we can for     with the job that we do best, providing
      our service users, and our continuing     the best support we can to our service
      financial health means that we are able   users and their families.
      to set our own direction for the future
      without undue attention from our
      regulators. This enables us to get on

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Strategic
      Ambition Five

     The Trust will be a centre of                When we asked people:                     We are ranked as the fourth most           Our successful strategy will
     excellence for mental health                 ‘What good would look like in             research active mental health trust,       mean that we are:
     and disability.                              five years’ time?’                        on the basis of the number of
                                                  these are some of the things              nationally funded studies. Many of our     • A leader in research and in
     Research and innovation are critical         they said:                                clinicians are recognised nationally and     embedding research into practice.
     to addressing the challenges the NHS                                                   internationally for their research and     • A centre of excellence for mental
     faces. The NHS as a whole needs              • Become experts and develop expertise    involvement in the development of best       health and disability services,
     to harness the best of our clinical,         • Grow                                    practice and guidance, including those       developing Trust Innovations to
     research, academic and                       • Lead                                    developed through the Royal Colleges         both export and draw in expertise,
     industry expertise.                                                                    and National Institute for Healthcare        knowledge and innovation
                                                  • Share knowledge
                                                                                            Excellence. Our staff are often              nationally and internationally.
                                                  • Deliver quality                         responsible for training and inspiring
     The five Year Forward View recognises                                                                                             • A leader in using technology to
     that innovation and research is the                                                    the next generation, and they help raise     connect and empower service
                                                  Meeting this ambition acknowledges        the profile of mental health, disability
     key to driving change, now and in                                                                                                   users, carers and staff, and in driving
                                                  that we are one of the largest mental     conditions and treatments.
     the future. We are committed to                                                                                                     increasing value by supporting and
                                                  health and disability trusts in the
     playing a leading role in this and digital                                                                                          enabling continual improvement
                                                  country, and our clinicians and other     The transformation of services has
     technology has a pivotal role to play.                                                                                              in productivity.
                                                  staff have a wide breadth of experience   been at the heart of our strategy and
                                                  and skills in many fields. Our services                                              • A key partner within our Sustainability
     Many of our staff and service users                                                    this work is also now being recognised
                                                  are recognised as Outstanding at a                                                     and Transformation footprint,
     carry a powerful computer with them                                                    nationally with other organisations
                                                  national level, with some having an                                                    breaking down information
     – in their smartphones and tablets -                                                   seeking to learn from us. We have
                                                  international profile and we want                                                      barriers across organisations,
     all the time. The emergence of this                                                    established Trust Innovations as our
                                                  to build on this. We are committed                                                     enabling the delivery of seamless
     advanced digital technology opens up                                                   brand for providing external support,
                                                  to maintaining this high standard                                                      timely and effective care to people
     opportunities for support, treatment                                                   advice, consultancy and products to the
                                                  consistently across all of our services                                                and communities.
     and prevention. The technologies now                                                   wider NHS and beyond.
                                                  and sharing best practice with                                                       • Engaging widely with our
     on offer give us the potential to provide    other organisations.                                                                   population through the widespread
     a more tailored and person centred                                                     We have been recognised as a global
                                                                                            digital leader across the mental health      use of digital communications.
     approach to care.
                                                                                            and disability sector.

                                                                                            We work hard to influence national and
                                                                                            local plans and policy, fighting stigma
                                                                                            and the highlighting the need for parity
                                                                                            of esteem.

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Strategic                                                                                 When we asked people:
                                                                                                ‘What good would look like in
                                                                                                                                            • An organisation with senior
                                                                                                                                              leaders who have the capacity and

      Ambition Six                                                                              five years’ time?’
                                                                                                these are some of the things they said:
                                                                                                                                              competency to lead and support
                                                                                                                                              organisational and cultural change
                                                                                                                                              and make the most of their skills
                                                                                                • Leadership                                  and qualities.
                                                                                                • More staff“time to care”                  • Somewhere that individuals and
     The Trust will be regarded as a                play a fundamental part of what we do
                                                    and must systematically flow from this      • Believing in “the firm”                     teams are highly engaged, members
     “great place to work”.                                                                     • Happy
                                                    strategy and our strategic ambitions.                                                     of highly effective teams and problem
                                                                                                • Mutual respect                              solve at a local level when issues
     Our talented, passionate and dedicated
                                                    A strategic approach to talent              • Engaged                                     arise, in the context of the Trust’s
     workforce are our greatest asset. Every
                                                    management is required to ensure            • Motivated - want to improve                 devolved decision making and
     day they deliver a diverse range of
                                                    individuals are developed, engaged and      • Communication                               Accountability Framework.
     outstanding local, regional and
     national services.                             retained within the organisation along                                                  • Integrating service improvement and
                                                    with continuing our work on embracing       As part of developing this ambition,          organisational development and that
                                                    equality, diversity and inclusion and       we have commissioned a new                    this is being delivered by clinicians
     They are the key to meeting the
                                                    further enhancing leadership capacity       Collective and Clinical Leadership            and managers.
     significant challenges ahead and are
                                                    and capability.                             Programme. We are an NHS Employers
     an essential part of designing and                                                                                                     • Seen as a great place to work with
                                                                                                Diversity and Inclusion Partner for
     delivering future services which will                                                                                                    more applicants than jobs available,
                                                    We are passionately committed to            the second year running and in 2016
     provide excellent patient care and                                                                                                       embedded values based recruitment,
                                                    supporting and empowering staff             launched BAME, Disability and LGBT
     meet service user, carer and public                                                                                                      limited vacancies, low use of agency
                                                    to improve their own health and             networks. We have successfully
     expectations.                                                                                                                            staff and reductions in turnover.
                                                    wellbeing, supporting the wider health      maintained Investors in People status
                                                                                                (including the health and wellbeing         • Developing strong partnerships with
     The values of our whole workforce is           and wellbeing of the population.                                                          trade unions, people feel safe to raise
                                                                                                standard) and continue to be accredited
     vital in delivering quality in everything                                                                                                concerns and there are low levels of
                                                    We must continue to engage our staff,       as a Better Health at Work Employer at
     that we do.                                                                                                                              bullying and harassment.
                                                    involve them in decision making, listen     the continuing excellence level.
                                                                                                                                            • Able to effectively support the health
     Flexibility and adaptability will be crucial   to their ideas, further empower them
                                                                                                A successful strategy will ensure             and wellbeing of our staff.
     for our future workforce. There will           to influence and make changes at local
                                                    level and do all we can to create high      that we are:
     inevitably be significant changes in
     where they work, how they work and             levels of job satisfaction and motivation
                                                    so that the Trust is ‘a great place         • An organisation with an increasingly
     who they work with.
                                                    to work’.                                     flexible workforce, working across
                                                                                                  health and social care, delivering
     We want our workforce to be fully
                                                                                                  excellence in patient care with greater
     equipped with the skills, knowledge
                                                                                                  provision of recovery focused self and
     and resources to deliver evidenced
                                                                                                  whole person care.
     based care across new pathways and
     with partners. Workforce planning must                                                     • Recognised as a diverse and
                                                                                                  representative employer, valuing and
                                                                                                  embracing diversity in our workforce.

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How will we measure success
and report on our progress?
We have set out in this strategy our vision, values and strategic
ambitions for the next five years. Having set this direction, our
Council of Governors and Board of Directors must now ensure
that it is delivered.

We have set ourselves specific targets which we will use to measure
our success in achieving our ambitions. We will monitor and report
to the Council of Governors and Board of Directors on the progress
made in delivering this Strategy and include a progress report in our
Annual Report.

We will also develop a range of other underpinning strategies that
will set out further detail on how we will achieve our plans. This will
include a focus on our clinical workforce, pharmacy and medicines
management and information technology for example.

If you would like to know more about our strategy you can contact:

communications@ntw.nhs.uk
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