Gender: Female
Age: 18+
Beds: 15
We can support up to 15 women who are ready to step down from short or longer term mental health services. We aim to equip the women in our care with the skills they need to live successfully in the community, therefore reducing the likelihood of requiring future inpatient admissions.
We are proud to be AIMS accredited with the Royal College of Psychiatrists. The AIMS (Accreditation of Inpatient Mental Health Services) rehabilitation project is a national scheme developed to ensure best practice is being achieved in inpatient mental health services.
Our service is particularly helpful for women who have been in hospital for some time and who require additional support as they continue along their pathway towards the least restrictive environment possible for them.
Our main focus is to give women the skills and confidence to enable them to live independently in the community. The occupational therapy team is key in assuring as many activities as possible are held in the community, helping individuals re-integrate and prepare most effectively for discharge.
The service has built strong links with local community-based services within Kenton and Harrow, and aims to support service users through a vocational pathway to gain employment and education opportunities.
Our service provides a high level of individualised care including a multi-disciplinary team (MDT) assessment, care plan formulation and management, followed by pharmacological, therapeutic interventions (psychology and occupational therapy) to enable them to integrate safely into the community.
All treatment plans and interventions are in accordance with National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guidelines and evidence-based practice. The service also has sessional input from a fitness instructor and creative facilitators.
We believe that through understanding each individual and their behaviours, we can create an environment and develop care plans which help them succeed. We are commited to working collaboratively with service users, families and experts by experience to drive continuous service development.
Our service user profile:
- Women aged 18+
- Admitted informally or under the Mental Health Act (1983)
- Primary diagnosis of mental illness, eg. schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, bipolar affective disorder or depression
- May have secondary diagnoses including mild learning disability, autism spectrum disorder, personality disorder or dementia
- May struggle with substance misuse
- Treatment refractory and/or may have a history of repeated acute admissions
- May have a forensic history and/or be stepping down from secure services
- Aiming for a return to community or community-based care
- May have complex comobidities and/or trauma history
Our multi-disciplinary team:
- Consultant Psychiatrist
- Specialty Ward Doctor
- Psychologist
- Assistant Psychologist
- Registered Mental Health Nurses
- Healthcare Support Workers
- Occupational Therapists
- Occupational Therapy Assistants
- Fitness Instructor
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