About us
Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (CWP) was formed in 2002 and achieved Foundation Trust status in 2007. We provide health and care services for local people, including mental health, learning disability, community physical health and all-age disability care – including the provision of three GP surgeries.
We have services across Wirral and Cheshire, as well as Trafford, Warrington, Bolton, Halton and Liverpool. We also provide specialist services for the North West as a whole.
Our services are provided in partnership with commissioners, local authorities, voluntary and independent organisations, people who access our services, their carers and families.
The Trust has over 14,700 members and employs more than 4,500 staff across 73 sites, serving a population of over 1 million people and highly specialist services for 2 million.
We provide integrated care in the community and within inpatient settings based on best practice and outcomes, working closely with the people who access our services and their carers to provide person-centred care for all.
Our services are developed and led by clinical staff. We strive for clinical excellence by ensuring there is a framework to deliver quality improvements, making sure that safe and effective care results in positive outcomes.
Regionally, CWP provides CAMHS Tier 4 services for Cheshire and Merseyside and adult eating disorder services across the North West and leads two Provider Collaboratives:
- Level Up, Young People and Families, Cheshire and Merseyside, Lead Provider Collaborative
- EmpowerED, Adult Eating Disorders, North West, Lead Provider Collaborative
In April 2024 CWP went shadow live with the Cheshire and Merseyside Perinatal Mental Health Lead Provider Collaborative and will go fully live following the development of the Mother and Baby Unit (MBU) currently being built on the Countess of Chester Health Park. CWP is also part of Prospect Partnership, the provider collaborative for Adult Secure Services in the North West.
Our vision and values
Vision:
Helping to improve the lives of everyone in our communities.
Our values are called the Six Cs.
They reflect the way that we do things at CWP. The 6Cs are:
Care
Compassion
Competence
Communication
Courage
Commitment
Our recognitions
- In 2024 CWP signed the Cheshire and Merseyside Anchor Institute Framework as a commitment to delivering social value and value within Cheshire and Merseyside. The Framework which was launched by Cheshire and Merseyside Integrated Care Partnership as an anchor system builds upon work that has taken place across Cheshire and Merseyside, since becoming an NHS England Social Value Accelerator site in 2018.
- Won the award category for Team of the Year: Working Age Adults – the Mental Health Intensive Support Team (MhIST) at the Royal College of Psychiatrists Awards 2023. This success followed on from picking up Team of the Year at the Patient Engagement Network National Awards (PENNA) in October 2023
- Successfully launched a brand new website, Talking Therapies for World Mental Health Day on 10 October 2023 across Central and West Cheshire. The Talking Therapies service will help with common mental health problems like stress, anxiety and depression
- CWPs resourcing team was highly commended for two of its innovative initiatives on 12 October 2023, at the National Healthcare Support Worker (HCSW) shared learning event.
- Achieved Team of the Year for the work undertaken by the Mental Health Intensive Support (MiHST) team at the PENNA awards 2023
- Success for EmpowerED North West / Level Up Cheshire and Merseyside who achieved awards for ‘Commissioning for Patient Experience’ and ‘Best Networker’ at the 23 PENNA awards
- Ancora House staff achieved Nursing Placement of the Year Award at the Celebrating Achievement and Practice Excellence (CAPE) Awards 2023 at the University of Chester.
- Shortlisted for eight prestigious awards at the Patient Experience Network Awards (PENNA) in September 2023
- Awarded the prestigious NHS Pastoral Care Quality Award for work in international recruitment
- Shortlisted for two awards at the Nursing Times Awards 2023: Learning Disabilities Nursing and Nursing in the Community
- The Dynamic Support Database – Clinical Support Tool (DSD-CST) was shortlisted in the ‘Future NHS’ category of the NHS Parliamentary Awards 2023
- Announcement of a brand-new specialist mental health unit which will support new and expectant mothers in a therapeutic environment
- Recognised as an overall top performer by the Care Quality Commission, following a survey of mental health community services
- Our Living Well service was nominated in the Estates Optimisation Project of the Year at the HSJ Partnership Awards 2023
- Nominated at HSJ Partnership Awards 2023 in the Best Mental Health Partnership category
- Achieved award for Mental Health Innovation of the Year at HSJ Awards 2022
- Shortlisted in the 2022 HSJ Patient Safety Awards for four patient safety initiatives
- Signed up to the Cheshire and Merseyside NHS Prevention Pledge
- Achieved the Cheshire and Merseyside Social Value Award, which supports and recognises organisations that “help local people and communities live valued and fulfilled lives and improve the place that we live. It recognises local organisations rooted in their communities as Anchor Institutions whose approach focuses on reducing avoidable inequalities and improving health and wellbeing”.
- Achieved an Autism Accreditation Specialist Award from the National Autistic Society for services at Ancora House, CWP’s child and adolescent mental health inpatient unit based in Chester. CWP are the second provider of children and young people services, nationally, to receive this award which demonstrates our commitment to providing the highest standard of support for autistic people.
- CWP is listed as being in the top 10 best performers in England (2021) for providing “equal opportunities for career progression or promotion” and “its percentage of board members by ethnicity compared to BME workforce within NHS Trusts by region”. Our most recent WRES report identified a 21.4% Board percentage figure against 5.5% for the overall Trust, 7.08% for the local population and a 12.6% NHS national average.
- Shortlisted in the Nursing Times award in the category of ‘Workforce Team of the Year 2021 for the Chester West Hospital at Home service (run by partners in the Cheshire West Integrated Care Partnership).
- Successfully launched our NHS Rainbow Badge Scheme in 2020/21.
- Finalist in the HSJ Value Awards 2020, Mental Health Service Redesign Initiative category.
Equality, diversity and inclusion
At Cheshire and Wirral Partnership equality, diversity and inclusion underpins our commitment to provide person centred care for those who access services, their carers, friends and families, and for our people who work at the Trust.
We are also committed to being a diverse and inclusive employer, and are signed up to a number of national schemes and programmes to solidify this commitment and support us to recruit and retain the best people from the widest possible talent pool.
Working with us
At Cheshire and Wirral Partnership, we believe in giving our staff the time to care, the space to think and the opportunity to grow.
Your development is important to us and we are passionate about working with our staff to create opportunities
for you to develop in your current role and beyond.
We offer a range of induction programmes, clinical education and professional development, with
a strong clinical support network and dedicated professional advisors.
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