Gender: Female
Age: 18+
Beds: 8
We support women with diverse and often high-level needs, helping them navigate multiple health and life challenges. We can support planned transitions as well as emergency or crisis admissions.
Our approach to care
Our Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT) work together with individuals to provide a holistic, person-centred, comprehensive assessment and care plan. The team are highly experienced, with staff members trained in understanding autism, mental health conditions, and in creating a supportive environment for everyone.
Our person-centred, positive behavioural support focus seeks to reduce behaviours of distress and treat mental health symptoms. We help individuals develop independent living skills and social integration through a variety of therapies and activities, with timetables co-produced with those in our care.
Our Occupational Therapy team explore sensory integration strategies to support emotional regulation, focus, social skills, daily functioning and more. Through functional behaviour analysis, our Psychologists formulate tailored interventions through a proactive approach.
Our team includes specialists who are trained to administer the Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule (ADOS). This allows us to provide thorough and accurate assessments for individuals who may need a diagnosis or a more in-depth evaluation of their needs. The MDT ensures everyone’s needs are met in a way that helps achieve stability and prepares individuals for discharge to the least restrictive setting. We work closely with families, carers and other health professionals to ensure that individuals have a strong care and support network.
Our service user profile:
- Women, aged 18+ years with a diagnosis of mental illness and/or autism who present with additional complex needs
- Typical diagnoses include:
- Autism Spectrum Disorder
- Asperger’s syndrome
- Bipolar affective disorder
- Personality disorder
- Post-traumatic stress disorder
- Depression
- Psychosis
- Schizophrenia
- Schizo-affective disorder
- Other neurodevelopmental disorders
- May be detained under the Mental Health Act or informal
- May present with forensic history
- May include a history of substance misuse
- May present with behaviours of distress
