Secure

To ensure we cater for each person’s journey and achieve long-term results, we have created a unique approach to secure care for our service users. Our aim is to balance recovery with security and ensure that each service user is able to participate safely and as fully as possible in their care to achieve a successful discharge from hospital. To help achieve this we apply our care model, myPath.

myPath is our overarching care model that serves to monitor service user engagement levels, manage their records, assess individual progress and formulate a personalised and dynamic care plan with measurable targets. Within our secure services, myPath is structured to support individuals with a range of complex care needs including personality disorder, mental illness, ASD and communication needs relating to Deafness, working with them to develop truly individualised programmes that support them through their pathway.

For each individual, a daily risk assessment is completed, which enables dynamic responses to individual presentation within any 24 hour period and ensures immediate support is provided. Each individual is offered a minimum of 25 hours meaningful activity each week, which is evidenced and documented within an individualised activity timetable based around understanding mental health needs and developing daily living skills.

All individual care pathways are reviewed in full by the multi-disciplinary team on a weekly basis and guided by a dynamic care plan that is closely linked to our specialist outcome tool, the Global Assessment of Progress (GAP). In our secure services, the GAP allows us to measure an individual’s progress during their admission, plot the positive developments and changes in well being, whilst formulating plans over potential future risks for longer term management.

In applying myPath, our team is able to be responsive in their approach, determine length of stay, and ensure that people can move as quickly as possible to the most appropriate and least restrictive environment.

Our secure mental health services use a number of outcome tools to measure improvements in the people under our care. These include:

• HCR-20
• HoNOS Secure / Clustering
• STAR / START risk assessment
• My Shared Pathway
• EssenCES
• Global Assessment of Progress (GAP)
• Recovery Star
• MOHOST
• MoPPs (Move on Plans Protocol)
• BPRS, LUNSERS
• Assessment of Communication and Interaction Skills (ACIS)

Cygnet Health Care recognises that each person is an expert in their own care and through our Recovery Colleges we work together with each student on their own personal recovery journey, whatever that may be.

Our Recovery Colleges offer educational courses designed to provide increased understanding of mental health and support individuals through their recovery, promoting hope, opportunity
and aspirations for the future. Service users are empowered to become experts in their own wellbeing and recovery.

Each of our Recovery Colleges are unique and have been developed in co-production with the service users at our secure care services. With a wide range of courses on offer from mental health awareness, mindfulness, healthy living, maths, English, music, film production and more, there is something for everyone. Courses are run on site by service users or staff members for their peers and are designed to suit all skill levels and abilities.