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NELFT’s Memory Service in Waltham Forest has received an accolade from the Royal College of Psychiatrists. The service has been awarded a Sustainable Mental Health Service Commendation.

London Borough of Barnet (LBB) and NHS Barnet Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) have appointed NELFT as the new provider to run Barnet’s Children’s Integrated Therapies Service. From 1 September 2018, NELFT will provide Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy and Speech and Language Therapy under a Children’s Integrated Therapy service, resulting in one provider delivering all three services.

To commemorate the NHS at 70 anniversary, NELFT is undertaking a series of talks across the year aimed at providing the public at large, staff and partners with an in-depth look at various topics.

The annual event in Romford for Mental Health Awareness Week was a huge success. With near-perfect weather, the crowds in Romford Market were bigger than normal and NELFT staff were busy talking to the public who were happy to stop and speak to services from across Havering.

NELFT hosted another edition of the annual event at CEME Centre in Rainham on Wednesday 9 May to mark International Nurses’ Day. International Nurses’ Day was on Saturday 12 May and is an annual awareness day aimed at celebrating the contributions nurses make to society.

Towards the end of last year, we started a feature on the website where we speak to one of the NELFT Non-Exectutive Directors. The aim was to find out about their roles, their views on the Trust and what skills they bring to the organisation. This month we are featuring Sultan Taylor, to find out about his time working for the Metropolitan Police as a Borough Commander and to uncover how he has found working as a NELFT NED over the last 12 months

The official opening of new The Grove facility took place on Thursday 10 May, with the ribbon cutting performed by the London Borough of Redbridge Councillor Elaine Norman. The new facility is on Grove Road in Chadwell Heath and is home to the NELFT targeted children’s services for Redbridge.

As part of the drive to learn more about the NELFT staff networks, we are in the process of running interviews with some of their leading figures. Last month, we ran an interview with Bob Champion (Executive Director of Workforce & Organisational Development) about the Disability Network 

Jacqui Van Rossum, Executive Integrated Care Director for London and Executive Lead for the NELFT LGBT+ society talks about our new rainbow lanyard scheme and what this represents for our trust.

Hello, my name is Ryan Chawner and I am an accounts apprentice here at NELFT. I started my level 2 AAT Apprenticeship with a recruitment firm in the finance department in September 2015. I passed my Level 2 AAT and then moved on to NELFT in November 2016 to start my Level 3 Apprenticeship, which I will explain why later on in this blog. I have wanted to become an accountant since I was about 14 years old.

Following the publication of the NHS Providers State of Communications report last month, Carrie-Ann Wade, director of communications, marketing and engagement, reflects on the role of communications within an NHS Provider trust and the impact that communications professionals can have on the delivery of trust objectives.

Hello, my name is Rhian Webb and I joined NELFT on 5 January 2016, when I started the Advanced Apprenticeship in Business Admin with the Medical Education team. When I first joined NELFT, I had just turned 19 and had just finished my last year of Sixth Form and completed my A Levels. Even after completing my A Levels at sixth form, I still didn’t really know what career path I wanted to take - but NELFT provided me with the first step to that ladder. I have since completed my apprenticeship at NELFT in April 2017 and have now moved up a role in my team to become a ‘Medical Education Co-ordinator’ in just 16 months of working in NELFT as an apprentice.

A blog written by Cassandra Sharp from Basildon Integrated Community Team about the process of registering to become a nurse in the UK

Mental health services are often described as the Cinderella service of the NHS. Despite being promised resources and transformation, her child called CAMHS, remains very poor and much neglected.

I am delighted to be writing my first #NELFTtalks blog post, particularly as it feels like there is an amazing sense of new energy in the organisation right now. It is a great time to be launching a new way to engage with people who are interested in NELFT.