Detailed assessment by our multi-disciplinary team, in consultation with the referrer, enables treatment options to be fully considered. Referrers and carers are invited to visit the unit and meet our care team to discuss the goals and limits of admission, treatment interventions and management of possible risk.
Services Provided
- Progressive care - a personalised therapeutic programme for each patient
- Multi-disciplinary teamwork
- Individual support - a high staff ratio ensures personal attention and one-to-one skill building
- Pharmacological interventions
- Interactive programmes, therapies and daily scheduled events
- Living skills practiced in a working environment
- Purpose-built rehabilitation facilities - en-suite rooms for each patient, plus therapy kitchens, study rooms, computer access and outdoor recreation areas
Key features of the programme include
- Comprehensive multi-disciplinary assessment
- Initial treatment aims focusing on the management of disturbed behaviour and risk to self and others, moving through to the development of appropriate coping skills and self-management
- Treatment programmes offering a wide range of therapeutic modalities, combining psychiatric, educational, recreational and cognitive behavioural perspectives integrated through regular meetings of the multi-disciplinary team
- Individual and group therapies and creative therapy principles
- An environment conducive to mental health and normalisation
- Access to a wide range of activities and facilities including creative and vocational therapies, gymnasium and Ti Chi
- Care Programme Approach –health and social care needs planning
- Meaningful day activities