Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a major provider of integrated healthcare services, employing over 11,300 colleagues who work every day to help people live healthier, more fulfilling lives. We deliver a wide range of services including mental health, intellectual disability, community, forensic and offender health services. Our care is centred around people and delivered in the settings where it is most needed - from secure hospitals to community hubs and from GP surgeries to people's homes.
Our services reach across Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire and South Yorkshire, and are delivered from more than 120 locations. We operate in a variety of environments, including low, medium and high secure settings - such as mental health hospitals and prisons, as well as delivering physical healthcare in local communities.
We are one of the largest mental health and community Trusts in the East Midlands and one of Nottinghamshire's biggest employers. Each year, we support the care and wellbeing of more than two million people. Our services span all age groups and levels of complexity - from short-term support to highly specialist interventions, with a strong focus on prevention, recovery and personalised care.
In addition to our local services, we are proud to host several regional and nationally commissioned services. These include the National High Secure Deaf Service, the Nottingham Centre for Transgender Health and other specialist provisions. We are also the lead provider of the IMPACT Provider Collaborative, a partnership across the East Midlands that brings together NHS organisations and independent sector providers to improve care for adults with complex mental health needs requiring inpatient care. As the lead provider, we take responsibility for the commissioning and oversight of secure mental health services across the region.
Our annual budget of £747 million enables us to invest in high-quality care, support innovation and develop our teams to meet the evolving needs of the communities we serve. We work closely with system partners, including the Integrated Care System (ICS), local authorities, voluntary sector organisations and people with lived experience, to improve outcomes and reduce health inequalities.
At the heart of our work is a commitment to making a difference. Through compassionate care, continuous improvement and collaboration, we aim to empower people to live well and thrive.
The about the Trust document is available for download here.
Colleague networks
We offer a number of employee-led staff networks, including Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) groups, our Green Champions Network, Freedom to Speak Up Network. Health and Wellbeing Champions Network and Menopause Champions. We also have over 80 EDI Ambassadors in place.
We are passionate about supporting diversity and inclusion in the Trust. We provide care to a diverse range of communities and believe that a diverse and inclusive workforce can help us to deliver the best possible care to those we serve, thereby amplifying our ambition to be a great and diverse place to work.
Colleague benefits
Nottinghamshire Healthcare aims to be diverse, inclusive and a great place to work for all. Key to this is how we support colleagues throughout their employment in terms of professional support, financial benefits, development opportunities, wellbeing support and staff discounts to name but a few.
Information about each of these elements and more can be found on our Staff benefits page.
Our strategy, vision and values
Our Strategy 2022-2027 sets out our vision that “We will make a difference to the communities we serve by delivering the highest quality physical and mental health care to our patients, and by tackling inequalities in outcomes, experience and access.”
Our strategy is underpinned with four strategic objectives, which if we focus on in combination, will help us to achieve our vision - Our People, Our Performance, Our Care and Working Together.
We are committed to living our values whilst working together to achieve our vision and strategic objectives. As part of our programme to develop our people and culture, we developed a set of values: Trust, Honesty, Compassion, Respect, and Teamwork In combination, these values help us to describe what we are committed to doing to achieve our vision and the expected outcomes for our people, our patients, and our communities.
Find out more on our Our Vision and Values page.
Research and learning
Nottinghamshire Healthcare has a number of excellent training and development opportunities from mentorship and learning partnerships to fully funded apprenticeships, from level 1 through to Master’s degree level.
We also have strong research and learning links with the Institute of Mental Health, the University of Nottingham, Nottingham Trent University and the University of Derby. Collaboration with our Intergrated Care System (ICS) partners and the voluntary, community and education sectors are vital to our work.
Care Groups
Mental Health Care Group
We provide a wide range of mental health services for people of all ages across the City of Nottingham, Nottinghamshire County and Bassetlaw. Care is delivered in hospitals, clinics and people's homes, supported by community teams based in local neighbourhoods.
Our services are organised into specialist care units:
- Children, Young People and Families Care Unit - including community and inpatient Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS), perinatal mental health support, eating disorder services, forensic CAMHS, Healthy Family Teams, children's community nursing and therapy services, and specialist support for children in care and care leavers.
- Mental Health Inpatient and Crisis Care Unit - providing adult mental health inpatient services, crisis resolution and home treatment teams, liaison psychiatry, rapid response services, and Section 136 suites.
- Older People's Care Unit - supporting people with memory issues, dementia, and mental health needs through community teams, inpatient services, dementia outreach, and liaison psychiatry.
- Mental Health Community Care Unit - offering psychological therapies, local mental health teams, specialist depression and personality disorder services, support for rough sleepers and those affected by substance misuse, and services for survivors of sexual violence.
Our care is delivered from key sites such as Highbury Hospital, Queen's Medical Centre, Sherwood Oaks Hospital, Blossomwood Care Unit and Bassetlaw Hospital, alongside a network of community-based teams, ensuring we are accessible to the people who need us most.
Community Health and Specialist Services Care Group
Our Community Health and Specialist Services Care Group provides a wide range of physical and specialist healthcare across Nottinghamshire, as well as some residents in neighbouring areas such as Derbyshire and Leicestershire. We also work in partnership with organisations including Nottinghamshire County Council, Nottingham University Hospitals and Sherwood Forest Hospitals to deliver integrated, high-quality care.
Our services are organised into four specialist units:
- Urgent Care Unit - Delivering rapid response and rehabilitation services such as Lings Bar Hospital inpatient care, urgent community response, virtual wards, discharge-to-assess pathways, community therapy, podiatry, MSK services, alcohol and long-term conditions support, nutrition and dietetics, and speech and language therapy.
- Planned and Proactive Care Unit - Providing ongoing and preventative care including adult community nursing, cardiopulmonary services, heart failure care, neurological rehabilitation, stroke services, respiratory support, diabetes care, end-of-life care (including John Eastwood and Cedar House hospices), Macmillan nurse services, and post/long COVID care.
- Specialist Care Unit - Offering targeted specialist provision including learning disability services, intellectual disability support, the Nottingham Centre for Transgender Health, neuropsychology, day services, and intensive assessment and treatment for complex needs.
- Offender Health Care Unit - Delivering integrated healthcare across several prisons, including HMP Nottingham, HMP Ranby, HMP Lincoln, HMP Morton Hall, HMP Swinderby, HMP North Sea Camp, and Offender Personality Disorder (OPD) services.
The majority of our services are delivered in people's own homes or local community settings, with some specialist and inpatient services provided at dedicated facilities. By working closely with primary care, hospital partners and the voluntary sector, we ensure people receive the right care, in the right place, at the right time.
Forensic Care Group
Our Forensic Healthcare Group is one of the largest NHS providers of forensic services in the UK, delivering care across the full secure care pathway - from high secure to community-based forensic services. We provide specialist support for people with mental illness, personality disorder, intellectual and developmental disabilities and other complex needs, often within secure or specialist environments.
Services are delivered through our key forensic sites:
- Arnold Lodge Regional Secure Unit - male mental illness services, male personality disorder services, and women's standard and enhanced medium secure services.
- Rampton High Secure Hospital - high secure mental health services, the National High Secure Deaf Service, the National High Secure Learning Disability Service, the National High Secure Healthcare Service for Women, National Learning Disability and Women's Outreach Services, men's personality disorder services, therapies and education services, forensic security services, and physical healthcare services.
- Wathwood Hospital - medium secure inpatient services for men.
- The Wells Road Centre and Community Forensics Care Unit - community forensic intellectual and developmental disability service (CFIDD), community forensic teams, the Nottinghamshire Mentalization Based Treatment (MBT) Service, criminal justice liaison teams, male intellectual disability services, male mental illness services, and women's services for mental illness and/or personality disorders.
We are also the lead provider for the IMPACT Provider Collaborative - a partnership of NHS and independent sector organisations working across the East Midlands to improve care for adults with complex mental health needs who require secure care.
Corporate Services
The clinical care groups across the Trust are supported by a broad and diverse range of corporate services. These functions are essential to ensuring the smooth operation of our core business and play a critical role in delivering on our performance, quality and regulatory commitments. They include professional leadership for nursing, medical, allied health, psychological and social care professions, as well as the infrastructure that supports finance, procurement, estates, people, communications and systems.
Corporate services span everything from workforce development, recruitment and wellbeing support to digital transformation, data and insights, and organisational development. They also include dedicated teams for patient safety, clinical governance, research, safeguarding, legal and contracting services and facilities management.
Together, these teams provide expert advice and operational support, helping our clinical services to focus on delivering safe, high-quality care. The Chief Executive leads functions such as corporate governance and communications, which help shape the strategic direction of the Trust and ensure we remain accountable, transparent and connected to our communities.