This is a working draft of our future vision, purpose and values, following our ongoing engagement with service users, people with lived experience, families and carers, our partners and staff, to help us set out our goals and objectives over the next five years.
Our draft vision
Delivering great care and improving outcomes together. 
Our draft purpose statement
- We provide NHS mental health and learning disability services in Sussex, in collaboration with patients, carers, and families
- As a specialist provider we focus our resources on directly providing safe, effective care and treatment which leads to a positive experience for patients, carers and families
- We collaborate with partners to join-up services and meet the needs of the local communities we serve
- We use our expertise and experience in mental health to provide leadership, advice, support and training to the wider health and care system.
Proposed values
Compassionate
- We are compassionate
- We work together to create a caring environment for everyone
- We make sure people have clear, valued roles in a supportive team
- We give and receive timely feedback to one another in order to improve
- We listen in a way that ensures people are heard
- We have all conversations in a respectful way.
Accountable
- We are accountable
- We do what we say we will do
- We act with integrity
- We work with and in service to patients, carers, families and our local communities
- We are responsible for achieving continuous improvement
- We strive for value, achieving the outcomes that matter to people through the most effective use of our resources.
Optimistic
- We are optimistic
- We seek to make a difference to people's lives by working with them
- We are positive about our ability to change, innovate and continuously improve
- We are ambitious about improving services in partnership with our local communities
- We are determined to shape a positive future
- We create a workplace environment where we recognise and overcome challenges together.