Our best self is all about supporting people living with physical or mental illness, and addiction or with a learning disability.

We support the work of the trust to ensure that all services, both inpatient and community are “autism friendly”. Improving physical environments and ensuring all our staff are suitably trained in how to care for people with autism.

Have state-of-the-art, trauma informed, therapeutic environments which allow people to recover.

Ensure all our services, whether in an inpatient or community setting are autism friendly. This could be improving our environments, as well as ensuring all our staff are suitably trained in how to care for people with autism.

Work with and employ people with lived experience, who can help care for our patients. It’s increasingly clear that people benefit from receiving are and support from both clinicians and those who have had a similar experience.

By fundraising for these key areas with our communities, we can significantly improve the experience and recovery chances for many of our patients who experience poor mental health.

Wellbeing of our staff

It’s equally important for us as a good employer to look after the welfare and wellbeing of our staff. We know that staff who feel supported and well cared for, deliver high quality care to our patients.

We also use our charitable funding in projects and activities which help us to look after the welfare and wellbeing of our staff. We know that staff who feel supported and cared for deliver high quality care to our patients.