Gender: Male
Age: 18+
Beds: 16
Kingfisher Lodge will support men in a relaxed, calm and homely environment. The focus is on helping them to increase their independence through work and education, as well as social and leisure activities, offering a slower stream rehabilitation service where needed.
Our in-house multi-disciplinary team include psychiatry, psychology, occupational therapy, nursing, support workers, and sessional therapists.
At Kingfisher Lodge, we have a dedicated Substance Misuse Practitioner who enables the men in our care to identify and engage with the right support for them. The substance misuse practitioner works closely with other disciplines within our MDT to ensure that an abstinence-based approach is integrated into the care ethos. Service users will often be at different stages of their relationship with substances when they come to us, and so find a 1:1 approach to treatment to be the most effective.
This also means we can tailor timelines to align with care plans, for example, offering a more intensive approach for men on a 12-week discharge to assess admission. No two journeys are the same and, often, there is no quick fix when it comes to recovery.
We focus on the ground work, building strong roots and resilience. True progress requires significant patience and perseverance, with foundational changes occurring internally long before visible signs of success emerge. Our staff team are encouraged to identify and report trends in drug and alcohol use, which informs staff training about specific areas, and ad-hoc educational group sessions for service users.
Our facilities:
- En-suite bedrooms
- Variety of activity rooms and an IT café
- Multi-faith room
- Family visiting room
- Spacious enclosed garden
Our service user profile:
- Men aged 18+
- Detained under the Mental Health Act (1983) or informal
- May require a longer term placement for complex enduring mental health needs
- Primary diagnosis of mental illness with:
- Complex comorbidities
- Substance, drug and alcohol abuse
- Treatment resistance
- Behaviours that challenge
- Aiming for a return to a less restrictive environment
- History of sexual abuse or domestic violence
- May require a longer term placement for complex mental health needs
- Typical diagnoses: schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, bipolar affective disorder or depression
- May have a secondary diagnosis of mild learning disability, autism spectrum disorder or personality disorder
- May have a forensic history and / or be stepping down from the care of the ministry of justice
- May have a history of repeated acute admissions
