About us
We are the Mental Health and Learning Disability NHS Trust for County Durham and Darlington, Teesside, North Yorkshire, York and Selby.
Welcome from Alison Smith, CEO
At Tees Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust (TEWV) we serve a population of two million people and are geographically one of the largest NHS foundation trusts in England. We have almost 8,500 staff and an annual income of more than £550 million.
Safe, understood and cared for
Our talented and compassionate teams work with our patients and partners and in the community. We help the people of our region feel safe, understood, believed in and cared for. We work in lots of different ways from education and prevention to crisis and specialist care.
We also provide mental health care in prisons in the North East, Cumbria and parts of Lancashire.
Our patients and carers have a say in how they are supported and treated. This is because we know how important it is to listen and treat people as individuals. We all work together towards better mental health.
What we do
We work across two care group boards – one covering Durham and Tees Valley, plus forensic services (psychiatric services in a safe, secure setting), and one for North Yorkshire, York and Selby.
We provide:
- Adult mental health services mental health services for older people
- Children and young people’s mental health services
- Learning disabilities services
- Health and justice services
- Secure inpatient services
As a foundation trust, we are accountable to local people through our council of governors. We are regulated by NHS England and the Care Quality Commission.
Our values
- Respect – listening, inclusive, working in partnership
- Compassion – kind, supporting, recognising and celebrating
- Responsibility – honest, learning, ambitious
Star awards
The shortlisted nominations for the Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust’s Star Awards 2024.
Equality and Diveristy
The Trust believes in making every effort to be a fair and unbiased organisation.
Further to this, the Trust aspires to be an organisation that embraces and values people, recognising the benefits that diversity brings to the Trust both as an employer and in the delivery of services.
Negative behaviour can have a direct impact on patient experience. A lack of compassion, poor attitude or bullying is a destructive element within any team or organisation where it exists. It also contributes significantly to workplace stress.
As a public body within the NHS the Trust expects a continuous and exemplary commitment from all staff regardless of pay grade or position, taking a proactive approach to equality, diversity, human rights and the care quality commission’s essential standards of quality and safety.
As an employer the Trust is developing an organisational culture in which diversity is valued and staff are able to promote equality and challenge unlawful harassment, discrimination and bullying.
We do this to ensure that staff, service users and their carers receive fair and equal treatment throughout their employment or their care.
Working with us
We’re committed to co-creating a great experience for our colleagues – find out more about this and why you should come and work for us.
