In our latest blog Kristy Watters, Cygnet's Head of Employee Relations, writes about why Armistice Day and Remembrance Day is so important and reminisces about her two grandfathers who both fought in the Second World War.
In July we heard from Angela, a service user at Cygnet Wallace Hospital, about her journey so far and goals for the future. This month Angela provides an update about what she's managed to achieve and what is still to come.
In this blog Barry Swire, Operations Director, provides some tips on supporting yourself and others during stressful time, and how the Sustaining Resilience at Work (StRaW) programme helps staff at Cygnet Health Care.
Hansa Lodge’s Home Manager, Iyabo Taiwo, took the opportunity of Black History Month to write a blog celebrating Jacqueline, a 58-year-old Jamaican woman who has benefitted immensely from the cultural diversity and experience within the Hansa Lodge staff team.
This Speak Up Month, we are raising awareness of how much we value speaking up in our organisation. In our latest blog colleagues share why it is essential that when people speak up they are listened to.
In our latest blog Priya Chauhan shares her career journey from student at the University of Derby to newly qualified Occupational Therapist at Cygnet Sherwood House.
In this blog, Adrian Ashurst, one of Cygnet’s Specialist Trainers, reflects on his experiences of working in a care setting during the pandemic, the lessons he has learnt and the new skills that he will continue to use in his training sessions and interactions with other people.
15th October 2021 marks Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) Awareness Day. In her blog, Heather Rigby, Highly Specialist Speech & Language Therapist (SLT) at Cygnet Joyce Parker Hospital and Cygnet Hospital Sheffield, explains what DLD is and how to recognise when children may need help.
The recent Facebook outage gave an opportunity for us all to reflect on the impact of social media on the mental health of young people and ourselves, writes Dr Jon Van Niekerk, Cygnet’s Group Clinical Director, in his latest blog to mark World Mental Health Day 2021.
Speak Up Month is celebrated in October. As part of the month’s celebrations, Agnes Tutani, Cygnet’s Freedom to Speak Up Guardian, writes about how colleagues have embraced speaking up at Cygnet and encourages us all to Speak Up, Listen Up, Follow Up.
Today marks World Suicide Prevention Day which provides us with an opportunity to rally around a shared goal of preventing suicide. In this blog Lucy Scarborough, Cygnet's Group Communications Manager, shares what it’s like to lose a loved one to suicide and the importance of shining a light on a subject that can cast such a dark shadow.
In our latest blog we meet Chris, a service user on Madison Ward, a specialist medium secure service at Cygnet Hospital Bury for men with a personality disorder and enduring mental health needs. In the blog Chris describes how he initially struggled to integrate and how working with the psychology team helped him to settle on the ward with the help of a bespoke package of care.
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