Come and work with us at NELFT, says Chris Tuckett, physiotherapist and clinical director of AHPs

NELFT (North East London NHS Foundation Trust) provides an extensive range of integrated community and mental health services. These are delivered to people living in the east London boroughs of Barking and Dagenham, Havering, Redbridge and Waltham Forest. We also offer community health services to people living in the south west Essex areas of Basildon, Brentwood and Thurrock. 

The trust provides an emotional wellbeing mental health service for children and young people across the whole county of Essex. We are the provider of all age eating disorder services and child and adolescent mental health services across Kent and Medway. With an annual budget of £490 million, we provide care and treatment for a population of about 4.3 million.

We employ approximately 7,500 staff who work across 210 bases in London, Essex, Kent and Medway. There are about 200 physiotherapists across the specialities of paediatrics, adult physical health, learning disabilities and mental health.