At Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, we are dedicated to being people-centred and a great place to work. We take pride in the care, commitment, and dedication our staff show every day, delivering high standards of care.
People are at the heart of everything we do. Our workforce, including volunteers, people on work experience, and students, are our greatest asset. We are committed to improving the experience and engagement for all our staff. We know our staff come to work to 'Make a Difference,' and in return, we aim to provide a safe, supportive environment where everyone feels part of a team. Together, we create opportunities for growth and development, helping each person to reach their full potential.
Who are we?
Nottinghamshire Healthcare employs over 11,000 colleagues who help #MakeADifference every day. We provide intellectual disability, mental health, community health, forensic and offender healthcare services across Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire and South Yorkshire. Services are delivered from over 257 locations within the community from acute settings and across low, medium and high secure environments including prisons.
As one of the largest mental health and community Trusts in the East Midlands and one of the biggest employers in Nottinghamshire, we provide care to more than two million people a year. We are also home to national and regional services such as the National High Secure Deaf Service and the Nottingham Centre for Transgender Health. Our annual budget is £628m.
Our values and culture
At Nottinghamshire Healthcare, we adopt a Just and Restorative Culture, which means acting with compassion, treating people fairly and justly and embracing a learning culture; where if something goes wrong, we seek first to understand. It is an ethos by which we are all accountable for our actions, we act in line with and recruit to our Trust values and we assume positive intent during our interactions.
Our organisational values of Honesty, Trust, Compassion, Respect and Teamwork are meant to be both aspirational and inspirational and describe how we will work together to achieve our purpose
Kindness, Civility and Respect link directly to our Trust Values and are key expectations of how we work with each other and support our patients, carers and service users.
The NHS People Promise
The NHS People Promise, is a promise we must all make to each other – to work together to improve the experience of working in the NHS for everyone. The NHS People Promise is a national programme, which was launched last year, to raise the profile and importance of staff and the contribution they make. It sets out, in the words of those who work in the NHS, the things that matter most to them and what would most improve their working experience, such as health and wellbeing support, flexible working and to feel we all belong.
Staff benefits
To support our staff in their working lives and to enable our staff to deliver excellent care to our patients and service users, we offer a wide range of support and benefits. This includes professional support, financial benefits, development opportunities, health and wellbeing support and staff discounts to name but a few elements.
Staff engagement
At Nottinghamshire Healthcare, we’re passionate about celebrating and engaging with our colleagues across the Trust. We value and respect all of our staff, across all services, areas and professions, and understand how important it is to ensure we engage and connect together in order to learn, share and recognise all of the great work and effort that goes on.
We have a variety of different ways to connect with our colleagues, including:
- Staff Facebook group
- Live drop-in sessions with our executive colleagues
- Positive Star Awards
- NHS National Staff Survey
- NHS People Promise
- Annual OSCARS Awards
We also have a wide range of staff networks and champions
- Equality, Diversity and Inclusion networks
- Green Champions network
- Freedom to Speak Up Champion network
- Health and Wellbeing Champion network.
Equality & diversity
We want Nottinghamshire Healthcare to be an excellent place to work, for everyone. We’re passionate that our workforce is diverse and reflects the people and communities we work within.
Having a truly equal and inclusive workforce will help us to improve the experience of our patients, meaning better health outcomes for them and help you to feel empowered, engaged and supported as a vital member of our team.
Staff health & wellbeing
Staff Health & Wellbeing
Supporting the health and wellbeing of our staff is a key priority for Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. We recognise the importance of staff health and wellbeing, and we will support our people to make healthy lifestyle choices in and out of work and be ambassadors for good public health.
Click Here to learn more about our Staff Health and Wellbeing services.
Learning & development
We believe that high quality education and training is essential to the future development of healthcare delivery within the NHS.
We’re committed to ensuring that all of our staff have the right skills now and in the future to deliver quality services, and provide support and funding for staff to access external and internal training and courses to enhance their professional development.
Click Here to learn more about our Training and Development Opportunities.
Disability confident
As an employer, we are committed to inclusion and diversity in the workplace, and as such we are a Disability Confident Employer. The Disability Confident scheme is led by the government, and was established to challenge attitudes and increase understanding of disability while improving employee morale and commitment by demonstrating fair treatment.
Mindful employer
Nottinghamshire Healthcare Trust recognise that people experiencing mental ill health still experience and report stigma and discrimination at work. Therefore, we have signed (and continue to uphold) the ‘Charter for Employers Positive about Mental Health’ and are committing to creating a supportive and open culture, where colleagues feel able to talk about mental health confidently and aspire to appropriately support the mental wellbeing of all staff.
The Mindful Employer charter recognises employers who are working toward better mental health in the workplace and by signing the charter, as an employer, we are making a public declaration that the mental health of our staff is a priority within our organisation.