Best Places to Work 2015 – Mental Health Trusts

  • Full time equivalent staff: 5,580
  • Sickness absence rates: 5.82 per cent
  • Staff recommending care: 61 per cent
  • Staff recommending as place to work: 53 per cent

Childcare vouchers, season ticket travel loans and bicycle loans are all available as part of the employee benefits package at Northumberland, Tyne and Wear Foundation Trust. Football, Zumba and power hoop classes are on offer for staff at the trust. Internal management development programmes exist as does access to external leadership courses.