About us
Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of over 768,000 people across Lincolnshire, across fifty main sites, including twelve inpatient wards. We are focused on helping people towards recovery, enabling them to live well in their community as much as possible. We work closely with our local communities to design and improve services.
Our team of 3,000 dedicated professionals are passionate about what they do and live to our core values in everything they do. Our staff work tirelessly to care for people with mental health challenges, dementia, learning disabilities, and our autistic community, supporting people in our hospitals and community-based clinics, as well as in people’s own homes, work, schools, and communities.
Apart from some very specialist services which can only be provided by organisations outside our area, we provide the full range of mental health services, as well as support for people with learning disabilities and/or autism.
The work of the Trust is increasingly community-based, providing services in close partnership with colleagues in local councils, primary care, voluntary, community, faith, and social enterprise sector, as well as with service users, carers and their representatives. The Trust always aims to provide people with alternatives to admission and where appropriate, provide treatment, care and support outside a hospital setting.
Our services
We provide a wide range of mental health, dementia, learning disability, and autism services, with some social care to our Lincolnshire population. These services include:
- Lincolnshire Talking Therapies services for mild to moderate mental health issues such as anxiety or depression.
- Community services for people of all ages who are recovering from severe or long-term mental illness, including perinatal mental health concerns.
- Crisis resolution and home treatment for when someone becomes unwell and needs support to prevent them requiring hospital admission.
- Mental health inpatient care for people experiencing a severe, short term, episode of mental illness.
- Mental health rehabilitation for people with severe or long-term mental health problems who require support in returning to the community to live independently.
- More specialist services, including learning disabilities and autism support, personality and complex trauma, eating disorders, veterans, dementia, and some social care, for adults, children, families, and older people.
Trust in numbers
Our vision and values
The Trust is committed to a number of values as an organisation, which form the basis of everything we do. It is important that patient, service users, carers, and family members remain at the heart of this.
We continue to strengthen our vision and values and embed these throughout the Trust, to ensure that every member of staff is committed to supporting people to live well in their communities.
These values are how we deliver high quality, compassionate care, that is person-centred:
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We are kind
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We are inclusive
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We work together
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Our voice and actions matter
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We are always learning
Equality, diversity and inclusion
As a Trust we aim to work with and support carers and value your opinions and views as you will know your loved one best.
This information has been produced by LPFT staff and carers to assist you to deal with a mental health crisis.
We know that when you are dealing with a mental health crisis you often can’t think straight and may need help. This is designed to give you information on who you can contact and how to deal with someone who may be in a mental health crisis.
The information provided here to assist you in managing difficult situations is a guide only and we would encourage you to seek help at the earliest opportunity if you feel in danger or your loved one is at imminent risk.
Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust recognises the importance of ensuring its services are fair and equitable to all. At LPFT the diversity of our staff, service users, partners and any visitors to our services is celebrated.
We expect everyone who:
- visits any of our sites
- comes into contact with any of our services or
- works for LPFT
to be able to participate fully and achieve their full potential in a safe and supportive environment.
We welcome all service users and members of staff inclusive of:
- race
- disability
- sex
- sexual orientation
- gender reassignment
- marriage and civil partnership
- pregnancy and maternity
- age
- religion or belief.
We recognise the value of equality as a service provider and an employer. We will make every effort to eliminate discrimination and reduce inequality.
To succeed we need to work closely with service users, carers, staff and partners to deliver better health and social care services for all.
Making equality the golden thread
We aim to develop and ensure that equality is mainstreamed into everything we do.
We value equality and human rights (EHR). We have set out our approach in our policies and practices with the aim of ensuring respect for all.
We will endeavour to:
- develop and implement a holistic approach to EHR that meets the needs of our diverse communities.
- involve patients, the public, other stakeholders and partners in the planning and delivery of health services.
- deliver services which are appropriate to the needs of the community.
- continue to develop a skilled, capable and representative workforce which reflects and is able to deliver an effective service to the communities we serve.
- eliminate any adverse risks and impact identified in our service provision, policies and decision making processes to the people we serve.
- work in partnership with other public and voluntary sector organisations to further improve the services we provide to our diverse communities.