Welcome

Welcome to Devon Partnership NHS Trust. 

We provide mental health, learning disability, neurodiversity, gender and children's community services across Devon, the South West, and nationally. We're dedicated to improving mental health and wellbeing, working with our partners to provide high-quality, safe and recovery-focused care.

Our aims are to:

  • Provide effective care and treatment
  • Create a great place to work
  • Be a collaborative partner
  • Make best use of resources through improvement and learning
  • Strengthen inclusion
  • Make a positive contribution to our environment

Trust strategy

Our Trust strategy 2026-2030 sets our aims and ambitions for the coming years, based on what we've learnt from delivering our previous strategy and responding to local and national priorities. 

Clinical strategy

Our clinical strategy 2025-28 sets out our commitment to people using our services, their families and carers; the people we employ; the communities we serve and our partner organisations. 

Our staff

Our staff are essential to our success. We are committed to involving them in our development and to ensure our services are driven by the voices of the people who use them.

We're an equal opportunities employer, working to challenge discrimination and stigma, and promoting recovery, inclusion, and wellbeing. We want mental health, learning disability and neurodiversity to be seen as equally important as physical health services.

Our charity

Our charity, Open Up, raises funds to deliver projects and services that make a real and lasting difference to people's lives. Thanks to your donations, we've been able to create calming spaces, offer new and beneficial therapies, and provide specialist equipment.

Our income and staff numbers

We have an income of over £403m a year and employ around 4,500 staff. Each year we receive around 85,000 referrals and support about 28,000 people every month.

We also have more than 50 peer support workers, 70 volunteers and 112 experts by experience with lived experience - who make a unique and valuable contribution to our work. 

Looking ahead

Looking ahead, we anticipate new challenges and opportunities. We will take every opportunity to raise the profile of mental health, learning disability and neurodiversity and are proud to be involved and leading this next phase of development for our staff and the people who use our services.

Our mission

Our mission

To achieve excellene health outcomes and address health inequalities, championing mental health, learning disabilities and neurodiversity. 

Our values

We commit to living our values through how we lead, work and make decisions every day

Compassion
We respond with humanity and kindness to each person's pain, distress, anxiety or need. We search for the things we can do, however small, to give comfort and relieve suffering. We find time for those we serve and work alongside. We do not wait to be asked, because we care.

Respect and dignity
We value each person as an individual, respect their aspirations and commitments in life, and seek to understand their priorities, needs, abilities and limits. We take what others have to say seriously. We are honest about our point of view and what we can and cannot do.

Everyone counts
We use our resources for the benefit of the whole community, and make sure nobody is excluded or left behind. We accept that some people need more help, that difficult decisions have to be taken - and that when we waste resources, we waste others' opportunities. We recognise that we all have a part to play in making ourselves and our communities healthier.

Improving lives
We strive to improve health and wellbeing and people's experiences of the NHS. We cherish excellence and professionalism wherever we find it - in the everyday things that make people's lives better as much as in clinical practice, service improvements and innovation. We recognise that all have a part to play in making ourselves, patients and our communities healthier.

Working together for people who use our services 
We put people who use our services first in everything we do, by reaching out to staff, service users, carers, families, communities, and professionals outside the NHS. We put the needs of service users and communities before organisational boundaries.

Commitment to quality of care
We earn the trust placed in us by insisting on quality and striving to get the basics right every time: safety, confidentiality, professional and managerial integrity, accountability, dependable service and good communication. We welcome feedback, learn from our mistakes and build on our successes.