St Andrews Healthcare

Who we are

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.

Our culture and values

We are St Andrew's, a mental health Charity. Our purpose is to inspire hope for those living with complex mental health needs.

We work in partnership with NHS, voluntary, academic and research organisations to deliver specialist inpatient and community mental healthcare services.

Our expertise, together with education and research, helps to improve the lives of people with complex mental health needs. 

We are looking to a future with less stigma, more community support, more research and education, and to ensure that mental health policies are sustainable and lead to real change.

Please watch our short animation below, and join us in our mission: to help people transform their lives, and create a society where everyone with complex mental health needs is heard, valued and has hope for their future.

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

Equality, diversity and inclusion policy

We want everyone to be able to be themselves in the workplace and feel valued and respected for the diversity they bring to our workforce.

Equality, diversity and human rights training is given to all staff to ensure equality of opportunity, to tackle discrimination and to foster good relations between different groups of people.

We monitor workforce diversity to help us identify any imbalances and differing outcomes for groups of people.

We are also proud to be a Mindful Employer, and members of the Disability Confident scheme.

We are also proud of our employee networks, which include:

• PRIDE​ - St Andrew’s has had an active LGBTQ+ network for several years. Its aim is to help people to feel they can ‘bring their whole self to work’, because those that feel they must hide their identity in the workplace often suffer in terms of both wellbeing and performance.
   
• DAWN - Our Disability And Wellness Network employee group is focussed on promoting equality of opportunity, and positive attitudes towards people with disabilities. Its overarching purpose is to enable positive physical and mental wellbeing in the workplace. This group is open to all staff interested in disability equality.
   
• WiSH Network - Women in St Andrew's Healthcare - In 2019 we launched the WiSH network, which is fully inclusive and open to all staff. The Network aims to ensure all members feel they have a voice, and can play a part in positive change within St Andrew’s.
   

• UNITY Network - Our active UNITY network is open to colleagues from across the charity from all ethnic backgrounds, allies and people interested in exploring and supporting the experiences of people from diverse backgrounds in healthcare. UNITY's focus is determined by the members and how active & engaged our colleagues are, this year we have focused on running anti-racism listening sessions across the charity, and gathering key common themes from colleagues to help structure what our approach to anti-racism should look like for 2024/25.