The South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist trust providing community, mental health and learning disability services to the people of Calderdale, Kirklees, Wakefield and Barnsley. They also provide medium secure forensic services to the whole of Yorkshire and the Humber. The NHS is experiencing increasing challenges and considerable change; our integrated team have provided solutions and resources to deal with many challenges, including:
- Funding issues, £9m of savings required in order for the Trust to achieve its financial plan, and income remains reliant on achieving quality KPI’s
- Providing a safe working environment for nearly 4,400 employees over 12 sites
- Upgrading an ageing estate that requires ongoing maintenance to ensure compliancy
- Ensuring high levels of care for over 10,000 service users is maintained, despite major works on-site
- Providing the best patient experience, maintaining critical services 24/7 and access to bed space
- Delivering works within a live and secure mental health environment
- Finding solutions for decanting, poor access on a complex site with restricted parking
- Dealing with multiple stakeholders and decanting facilities efficiently
- Delivering a diverse mixture of projects from minor to major works, new build to works on listed buildings, with projects ranging from £100 to £18m
- Responding quickly when funding streams become available
- Working within residential areas with noise restrictions
- Addressing Care Quality Commission findings and Francis Report recommendations
- Dealing with the unknown, including mitigating the threat of asbestos
