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Welcome to NELFT
NELFT provides an extensive range of integrated community and mental health services for people living in the London boroughs of Barking & Dagenham, Havering, Redbridge and Waltham Forest and community health services for people living in the south west Essex areas of Basildon, Brentwood and Thurrock.
We provide an Emotional Wellbeing Mental Health Service for children and young people across the whole of Essex.
We are also the provider of all age eating disorder services and child and adolescent mental health services across Kent and Medway
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Living in London? Get in touch with our CAMHS services today.
Find out how we can help support your child to take care of their mental health.
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Come and work for us
We are a high performing trust, green with Monitor, CQC compliant and in a good position financially.
- View our full list of opportunities here
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Learn more about our QI work at NELFT
Find support and resources to help you with your QI journey.
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Talking Therapies services
Work stress?
Money worries?
Difficulty sleeping?
Feeling low?We're here to help. Speak to one of our therapists in Barking & Dagenham, Havering, Redbridge and Waltham Forest for support on taking care of your mental health and wellbeing.
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NELFT to deliver Children's Integrated Therapies services across Barnet
As of Saturday 1 September, we provide Barnet’s Children Integrated Therapies services.
- Find out more about the services on our website
- Need to speak to a member of staff? Call us on 0300 300 1821
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Our CQC Rating
From "Requires Improvement" to "Good", we are delighted to share our rating from the Care Quality Commission following our Well-Led Review in October.
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Do you know someone who has made a difference to your care?
If you, or a loved one, have received fantastic service from one of our colleagues, show your appreciation by nominating them for a 'Make A Difference' award
- Complete a nomination form here
- Share your appreciation via Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or LinkedIn
Our latest news
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Councillor Sanchia Alasia, Mayor of Barking and Dagenham visited the NELFT Brookside Adolescent Unit on Friday 15 February.
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What does a high-quality healthcare service mean to you? Have your say by Friday 1 March so we can further improve our services for patients.
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Following the Council of Governor’s meeting on Thursday 24 January 2019 there have been updates and appointments in relation to our Non-Executive Directors (NEDs).
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The theme for Children's Mental Health Week 2019 is 'Healthy: Inside & Out', encouraging young people to think about their physical health and mental health. Read on to find out how we have helped to raise awareness this week with the help of students from University of East London.
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Young people who are supported by EWMHS in Essex have produced a short film about mental health issues as part of the Into Film Moving Minds project.
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Our cohort of health care assistants who commenced their assistant practitioner training at Angela Ruskin University (ARU) in 2016 and have now successfully passed.
NELFT Talks
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As an End of Life Care facilitator, Dorothy Pearlman finds herself having conversations about death on a daily basis, a topic that many of us can find harrowing just to think about. In our latest 'NELFTtalks' blog, Dorothy offers advice and support for older people and families during this difficult time, while also taking a look at Billy Connolly and his battle with Parkinson's.
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In the first of our 'Chairman's blog' pieces, trust chair Joe Fielder looks ahead to 2019 as well as sharing his views on the NHS Long Term Plan and our work at NELFT.
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Heather Lloyd, a community mental health nurse from NELFT Kent Children and Young People’s Mental Health Service is currently working with the Porchlight Adolescent Wellbeing Service (PAWS) - a service for young people and their families living in Thanet. Here Heather tells us more about her work with the team and the difference it is making in the area.
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Marc Kingsley works as a consultant clinical psychologist within our clinical health psychological services and he is also a registered psychotherapist. In our latest NELFT talks post, Marc discusses the risk of suicide in palliative care and for end of life patients.
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Hello my name is Alice. I’ve been an apprentice here at NELFT since September 2017 after finishing my BA in Creative Writing. I work as a Library Assistant at Aubrey Keep Library in Goodmayes.
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In the Christmas of 2008, John Wickens sadly took his own life in Stratford, leaving his family and his wife Deborah ‘Debbie’ Wickens behind. Today, as part of World Suicide Prevention Day, Debbie shares her story with us about:
- How she cared for John through his struggles
- How her life has changed since that fateful day
- How she uses her experiences to support her patients within NELFT NHS Foundation Trust
- Her plans to mark the 10 year anniversary.
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In our latest NELFT Talks post Dr Samir Shah, consultant older adult psychiatrist and lead clinician with our Waltham Forest Diagnostic Memory Service, talks about how he was asked to be a clinical advisor and co-writer on 'Abdullah and Leilah', the world’s first transcultural drama about the effects of dementia. Dr Shah also talks about our plans as a trust to showcase this film as an educational resource for NHS staff.
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As part of the NHS70 celebrations, Queens Nurse and specialist school nurse (Redbridge) Pat Beverley reflects on her visit to 10 Downing Street, meeting the Prime Minister and her career highlights to date for our latest NELFTtalks blog.