Activities and Therapies
The young people are encouraged to increase their community presence and attend individual and group activities, such as movie nights, café/restaurant outings, educational trips, library access, gym/leisure centre, swimming, academic and work experience. The users have access to indoor activities including board & card games, puzzles, quizzes, foosball and pool tables. Unit
activities also include non-bake cooking sessions, health promotion group, social skills groups, creative writing, expression through art and living together group. Subjected to risk assessment, we also encourage users to visit parks, be involved with general shopping (Minworth ASDA, Sainsbury, Tesco) and to pick fruits from the fruit picking farms; these activities are carried out under staff
supervision.
Our Therapies
In addition, to engage and promote recovery, individual treatments are provided to service users (following a thorough psychometric assessment) which includes access to:
Speech & Language Therapy
Yoga Therapy
Animal
Therapy
Music/drama
Therapy
Staff
Our team has a wide range of experience in ensuring that our young people’s long-term care needs are met. Where necessary, partnership working with other specialist professionals is completed to ensure review and maintenance of their quality of life. The needs of each young person will be individually assessed. The requirements of the young person will be met based on this assessment. Any additional unmet need will be sourced and included in the care of the individual.
Our Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT) consists of:
Psychology
Physical Health Instructor
Registered Manager
Health Care Support Workers
Psychiatry
Nursing
Dietitian
Occupational therapist
Leadership and Management
The Registered Manager is available from Monday to Friday during office hours. There is flexibility to enable the manager to have some out of hours contact time with service users, evening staff and with waking night staff and to do the occasional waking night shift or day shift, they are also contactable in emergency event and staff are aware of the on-call processes.
Care Planning
The young people who access our service would have experienced previous admission to hospital due to mental ill health. They would not be able to return to their home address at this point, either requiring additional support for their mental health or that they do not have a suitable social setting to be discharged to.
The service is designed to care for children and young people with previous complex mental health problems who are unable to be cared for within their own family home; we aim to replicate the nurture that a loving family home provides. Review of placement would take place every 6 to 8 weeks.
The focus of the service is on increasing participation in activities of daily living; to give support with mental health recovery, to integrate the young person back to the community, including mainstream education and encouraging independence for each young person. A package of care will be developed with the young person that meets their individual needs.
All young people will have the following care plans in place with a regular assessment as shown below:
-Positive Behavioural Support Care Plan
-Communication Care plan
-Discharge Care plan
Assurance
We are determined to ensure a high quality and responsive service working within a multi-disciplinary framework with our community partners. In particular, we make the following pledges:
- Full child protection procedures and adherence to the Children Act
- Clearly defined Wellness and Recovery Plans
- Education and recreation activities
- Close liaison with Social Care and Community Healthcare services
- Discharge exploration on a regular basis
- Focus on returning the young person to mainstream education or work
- High quality education and training for staff to maintain and develop clinical excellence.
