CNTW NHS Recruitment Brochure - Flipbook - Page 18
WHAT ABOUT RESEARCH
AND INNOVATION?
We have a significant research profile and are
ranked as the fourth most research active mental
health trust according to the National Institute of
Health Research (NIHR, 15/16).
We have a Board-approved Research and
Development Strategy which promotes the
involvement of our staff and service users in
research. This encompasses activity from taking
part in high profile, national and international
research to embedding
research in clinical services, and developing a
workforce whose culture and behaviours
demonstrate the value of research to improving
patient care. It is the application of research
findings into practice that is key and we aim to
ensure that the services we provide are
underpinned by robust evidence of effectiveness
and the latest research.
Here at CNTW there is enormous potential for
developing research projects and careers; our
clinicians, often in partnership with academics,
have had significant success in
NIHR grant funding, charitable funding, Fellowships
and publications.
We have close links with the Academic
Department of Psychiatry (Institute of
Neuroscience), the Institute for Ageing and
Health and the Institute for Health and Society,
at Newcastle University. The Department of
Psychiatry’s main research interest is affective
disorders, with smaller research groups in
forensic psychiatry and cognitive therapy. The
Institute for Ageing and Health has a strong focus
on dementia
research (linked with a Biomedical Research Centre
on Ageing and a Biomedical Research Unit on
dementia). The other main research strength linking
the Trust with Newcastle University is autism
research in children and young people and now
across the lifecourse.