By combining a collaborative, multi-disciplinary approach and state-of-the-art facilities, we deliver high-quality care within a community atmosphere, while focusing on discharge planning from the moment individuals arrive.

Our recovery programme is delivered in a culture that balances risk management with therapeutic optimism, where men have the opportunity to learn and practice the skills they will need in a completely safe environment.

Our PICU/Acute Transitional Service offers those individuals who no longer require an acute admission but remain on a PICU or Acute ward as a delayed discharge due to not being able/ready to transition into the community. The typical length of stay is 4 weeks.

Kingswood Ward provides a high level of therapeutic care and support that is underpinned by knowledge and practice of evidence-based interventions, delivered by a highly experienced multi-disciplinary team. Our individualised and group treatment programmes have clearly defined goals and outcomes for our service users. Our recovery principles are built around hope, empowerment, wellness, personal responsibility, community focus and connectedness.

We aim to integrate the hospital into local and regional care pathways and community services, with the focus on care close to families and friends, lowest length of hospital stay, and reducing the chances of re-admission.

Treatment is offered in a safe, calm and therapeutic environment where service users develop skills for maximising their independence, self-confidence and knowledge of how to manage their mental wellbeing. We work compassionately and collaboratively with the service users and their families (where appropriate), using recovery based and person-centred approaches. The average expected length of stay in Kingswood Ward is between 9 and 18 months.

Therapies and treatments:

• Recovery focused care planning
• Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
• Mindfulness & emotional regulation
• Self-harming reduction and management
• Substance misuse and relapse prevention work
• Trauma, grief and loss
• Psychoeducation
• Anger and anxiety management
• Offence related work (where applicable)
• Physical health care management
• Behaviour analysis and problem-solving
• Life and social skills training
• Educational Support / Recovery College
• Creative activities
• Eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing (EMDR)

Our service user profile:

• Men aged 18+ years
• Detained under the Mental Health Act (1983) or informal
• Primary diagnosis of mental illness with:
  • Complex comorbidities
  • Substance, drug and alcohol abuse
  • Treatment resistance
  • Behaviours that challenge
• Aiming for a return to community or community-based care
• History of sexual abuse or domestic violence
• Typical diagnoses: schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, bipolar affective disorder or depression
• May have secondary diagnoses of mild learning disability, autism spectrum disorder or personality disorder
• May have a forensic history and/or be stepping down from secure services
• May have a history of repeated acute admissions

Our facilities:

• En-suite bedrooms
• Outside space including ward garden and communal roof terrace
• On-ward therapy kitchen
• Lounge and dining room
• Quiet room
• Gym and outdoor exercise area
• IT room
• Separate laundry room
• Extensive therapy space including Recovery College classrooms
• Service User shop