North Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust

Type of Trust
NHS Foundation Trust
Employees 1800
Chair Chris Paveley
Chief Executive Christopher Butler
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NEP is a NHS Foundation Trust that provides mental health, substance misuse and social care services and support for over 17,000 individuals and their families in north Essex.

NEP Headquarters is based in Chelmsford. The main Clinical centres are in Chelmsford, Clacton, Colchester and Harlow.

NEP provides Community Services across Clacton, Harwich, Colchester, Halstead, Braintree, Chelmsford, Maldon, Harlow, Epping, Waltham Abbey, Loughton and Uttlesford.

NEP provides adult and older adult in-patient and community services as well as the St Aubyn Centre, an acute Child and Adolescent in-patient facility based in Colchester.

St Aubyn Centre

The Trust provides care and support for individuals suffering from the following conditions, amongst others: depression; OCD; Schizophrenia; anxiety; bipolar disorder; schizoaffective disorder; psychosis; drug and alcohol dependency; port-partum psychosis; post-traumatic stress disorder.

The Trust has a dedicated Mother and Baby Unit, specialist dementia wards, specialist acute inpatient wards and a specialist service for veterans. The Trust also provides a substance misuse service called Essex STaRS, as well as an eating disorders service.

As a result of a recent report by the CQC, the Trust is investing £1.6m in safety improvements on its adult inpatient wards. The Trust has also invested £9.7m on the extension and refurbishment of the Derwent Centre in Harlow, that is due to open in summer 2016. Proceeds from the Trust’s recent successful sale of the Severalls Hospital site will be re-invested in the Trust’s estate.

CGI impression of new Derwent Centre, due to open summer 2016

It was named by the Health Service Journal as one of the top hundred NHS trusts to work for in 2015.[1] At that time it had 1771 full time equivalent staff and a sickness absence rate of 4.3%.

As of the most recent staff Friends and Family Survey, 59% of staff recommended it as a place for treatment and 51% recommended it as a place to work

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References

  1. ↑ http://www.hsj.co.uk/topics/workforce/best-places-to-work/hsj-reveals-the-best-places-to-work-in-2015/5087434.fullarticle

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