Mission

To promote recovery and quality of life through effective, innovative and caring mental health, social care and specialist community services

Vision

To be the best at what we do

Values

We will Respect

• Recognise and value people’s difference
• Ensure we do as we say we do
• Support personal recovery and quality of life
• Put people first
• Enable and support our staff
• Continue to work in partnership
• Take pride in what we do

Values defined

These values are backed up by definitions of the required behaviour that underpins them that will give more detail and focus for managing performance and developing our staff:

Recognise and value people’s differences

• Appreciating and celebrating diversity in staff and patients
• Tackling stigma and promoting inclusion
• Supporting and collaborating with colleagues
• Showing commitment to working together

Ensure we do as we say as we do

• Maintaining the highest standards of behaviour and accountability
• Openness and honesty in communication in a non threatening environment
• Working with integrity to ethical principles
• Respecting confidentiality

Support personal recovery and quality of life

• Challenging the status quo to create new care pathways that support recovery and independence
• Building on individual strengths
• Improving both mental and physical health and wellbeing
• Creating hope, opportunities and a sense of belonging

Put people first

• Listening to and acting on the views of patients and their carers
• Caring for patients as individuals
• Treating patients with compassion
• Judging every issue by considering the outcome for patients, promoting their wellbeing and safety

Enable and support our staff

• Providing a supportive and working environment aligned to best employment practice
• Ensuring all staff receive regular supervision and annual appraisal
• Recognising and rewarding achievement
• Maintaining and developing the skills and knowledge of all staff

Continue to work in partnership

• Engaging with and supporting our local community
• Working in partnership with others outside the trust
• Learning from others experience
• Constantly seeking to improve quality, effectiveness and efficiency

Take pride in what we do

• Leading by example, innovating and searching for improvement
• Promoting confidence in colleagues, teams and the organisation
• Celebrating our successes
• Valuing our workplace and care environments