Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust (AWP)
We take pride in caring for our communities.
Who are we?
At AWP, we are the largest specialist provider of mental health, learning disabilities and autism services in the South West region and one of the largest in the country, with around 5,000 staff. We have approximately 150 teams and our services support a population of around 1.8 million people. Our key commitment is to improve the lives of the people we serve with compassion, respect, and dignity. We refer to our values as PRIDE: passion, respect, integrity, diversity, and excellence. It’s our aim to be recognised as outstanding in our field, and that’s why our place within the South West Provider Collaborative is so important. It allows those who access our services to receive the best possible care and treatment possible.
Where are we?
Our central role is to provide secondary care mental health services for the people of Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Bath and North-East Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire, spanning large rural areas and inner cities. We also offer specialist support services across the South West. This includes provision of secure services, specialist services for veterans, those suffering from gambling harms, and children and young people’s mental health inpatient services.
Most of our work is with people in the community who have a severe mental illness. This includes conditions like psychosis, bi-polar affective disorder, schizophrenia, complex emotional distress and trauma. We also provide inpatient services for people with learning disabilities and autism and patients who require a period of treatment in a psychiatric intensive care bed, an acute bed or a rehabilitation bed. We offer talking therapies in Bath and North East Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire, and Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services in Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire. Each year we receive 85,000 referrals via 90 locations and across 6 local authorities, working in partnership with 50 organisations.