The Occupational Therapy team at Cygnet Hospital Bury are always looking for ways to improve sports provision for those living with mental health problems. Over the last 12 months Ben Baker, OT Assistant and the rest of the OT team have been supporting patients to attend Burnley FC in the Community.
Cygnet Health Care are partnering with the University of Wolverhampton to create a new generation of highly skilled future nurses. Cygnet’s collaboration with the University of Wolverhampton will be the first to introduce Nursing Associate Apprenticeships into the independent sector.
David, a service user at Cygnet Hospital Godden Green, recently got to fulfill a long held ambition to record a music video for his song ‘Wish’. Rafik Hamaizia, Cygnet’s Expert by Experience Lead and David explain how the video came to be filmed.
Cygnet Hospital Bierley's Recovery College have had their first AQA accredited award ceremony. Staff and service users from all wards were invited along to show their support and celebrate the achievements made.
On Thursday 22nd March a special lunch was held to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Cygnet Hospital Blackheath. The lunch was well attended by service users and staff, including some team members who have moved on to other roles within Cygnet and who came back to Blackheath especially for the occasion.
Cygnet Health Care's Reducing Restrictive Practice team continue to share their work nationally as Rosalyn Mloyi (Reducing Restrictive Practice Lead) and Raf Hamaizia (Expert by Experience Lead) presented at the BILD 2018 Restraint Reduction Conference held on 5th-6th March 2018.
A fantastic collaborative project between staff at Cygnet Hospital Bury and the Crisis Prevention Institute (CPI) has resulted in a new Management of Actual or Potential Aggression (MAPA) training video for Deaf team members.
We are pleased to announce that Cygnet Hospital Taunton will be opening a new rehabilitation service for men with learning disabilities and complex mental health needs. The new service will open on Monday 25th June and is now accepting referrals.
Service users at Cygnet Appletree recently took part in a two-day First Aid at Work course. The course covered all the basic first aid techniques such as the role of the first aider, unresponsive casualty, communication and casualty care, resuscitation (adult CPR), fainting, burns and scolds.
Well done to the team at Cygnet Lodge Kenton who have achieved AIMS re-accreditation from the Royal College of Psychiatrists. In total Cygnet Lodge Kenton met 96% of the 250 standards that services are measured against.
We are pleased to announce that Cygnet Sherwood Lodge, Mansfield, will shortly be opening two brand new community-based step-down services linked to the hospital. The two new services are the two-bed Adele Cottage, just next to Cygnet Sherwood Lodge, and the Sycamores Bungalows located in Alfreton.
On the 25th January 2018, Sacha Barnes, Ward Manager and Shaun Stevenson, Therapy Manager attended a Welcome Event for the Quality Network of Psychiatric Intensive Care Services (QNPICU) held at the Royal College of Psychiatrists.
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