leeds recovery college
Yorkshire
Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is the main provider of
specialist mental health and learning disability services in Leeds. We also
provide specialist services across York, the Yorkshire and Humber region, and
some highly specialised national services. Our vision is to provide outstanding
mental health and learning disability services as an employer of choice. This
means supporting our service users and carers, our staff and the communities we
serve to live healthy and fulfilling lives where we can all achieve our personal
and professional goals, and live free from stigma and discrimination. We are an
NHS foundation trust. That means: we have some freedoms to decide locally how to
meet our obligations we are accountable to local people, who can become members
and governors we are authorised and monitored by NHS Improvement, who support us
and hold us to account We provide services for people experiencing a mental
health crisis that requires urgent assessment and treatment. This may be
someone’s first experience of mental health distress or a relapse of an existing
mental illness. We offer services to people who need support and treatment for a
wide range of mental health conditions, from depression, anxiety and obsessive
compulsive disorder, to dementia, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia and
personality disorders. Find out more about the services we offer. We support
people living with issues such as addictions, eating disorders, or physical
problems with psychological causes, and those needing the support of our gender
identity service. Our Trust provides assessment and diagnosis of people of all
intellectual ability, who may have autism. We offer community, supported living
and inpatient care to people with a learning disability, who can present with
challenging behaviour or complex physical health needs. We offer services across
the region, and in a variety of locations, including inpatient children’s
services in York, deaf children’s services across northern England, and secure
services for Leeds and York.
