A leading mental healthcare charity

St Andrew’s Healthcare is a charity providing specialist mental healthcare for patients with some of the most complex, challenging mental health needs in the UK. We provide care across a number of services, including Men’s Mental Health, Women’s Mental Health, Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS), Neuropsychiatry, Autistic Spectrum Disorder and Learning Disability, with the majority of our 600 patients referred to us via the National Health Service.

We develop innovative ways to help patients recover, creating a package of care designed around each individual, their preferences and needs. We focus on physical and spiritual wellbeing as well as mental health.

Occupational and creative therapies include, horticulture, ceramics, woodwork, textiles and catering. As part of their recovery journey, many patients gain work skills and experience at Workbridge, which offers a vocational pathway.

St Andrew's is proud to be part of strategic and clinical networks which help to continuously improve and develop services for local and national needs. These include IMPACT East Midlands Provider Collaborative for Adult Secure Care, REACH OUT West Midlands Provider Collaborative for Adult Secure Care and the East Midland's Alliance for Mental Health, Learning Disabilities and Autism.

St Andrew's Healthcare - strategy and values

Our charitable purpose is to relieve suffering, give hope and promote recovery.

We will achieve this by focusing on six core areas:

• Quality of care
• Delivering value
• Buildings and Information
• People
• New partnerships
• Innovation and research

The charity has four core values, known as our CARE values: Compassion, Accountability, Respect, Excellence.

Every month, colleagues from across the charity nominate one another for displaying these value behaviours in their day-to-day work. We celebrate their achievements through our CARE Awards scheme, which culminates in an awards dinner once a year.