Cygnet Hospital Bury's Excel and Exceed School have recently achieved the Rainbow Flag Award. The Rainbow Flag award is a quality assurance framework that encourages a whole school approach to LGBTQ inclusion and supports schools in developing strategies to challenge and combat LGBTQ phobic bullying.
Approximately 20% of those aged 60 and over now experience mental health conditions. Earlier this month was Older Adults Mental Health Awareness Week, which aims to reduce the discrimination faced by older adults, as well as raising awareness. On Swift Ward, our Older Adults Acute service at Cygnet Hospital Taunton, staff and service users took the opportunity to celebrate the lives of the Older Adults on the ward.
Gledholt Mews and Coach House raised a fantastic £313.30 for Mind as part of the team’s celebrations for World Mental Health Day.
We are pleased to announce the appointment of Fiona Kennedy as Cygnet’s first Group Social Work Lead. In addition to providing leadership to our social work teams Fiona will also be promoting best practice and innovation across our services.
Cygnet Health Care has partnered with Kent Cricket to help primary age children think about their mental wellbeing ahead of World Mental Health Day. Kent Cricket have produced a short video of a visit the cricket club made, together with Cygnet School's Education Officer, to a primary school in Kent.
The service users and staff at Sheffield Day Services love trips out for a meal and were recently blown away by how the staff at one local pub, The Angel in Woodhouse, accommodated the service users’ dietary needs.
Cygnet Aspen House's Bake Off Challenge recently made a return and was held under their very own tent in the dining room. Service users volunteered to go up against each other to challenge for the prestigious ‘Aspen Star Baker’ award.
Congratulations to Elizabeth Ughu, Service Manager of Cygnet Bostall House, who has been shortlisted as a finalist in the National Learning Disabilities and Autism Awards 2021. Elizabeth has been nominated in the Senior Manager Award category for her “exemplary work and dedication”.
Some of the residents of Ellen Mhor, our specialist residential service with nursing, have recently been taking a walk on the wild side with alpacas in Dundee.
Service users and staff at Cygnet Newham House, our neuropsychiatric care and treatment facility in Middlesbrough for women affected by acquired brain injuries (ABI) or functional neurological disorders, recently celebrated the hospital's first anniversary.
As our first two cohorts of Nurse Associates take their next steps to become Registered Nurses, we launched our next Nursing Pathway Apprenticeship with our new university partners, University College Birmingham.
South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw (SYB) is the latest health and care system to see provider collaboratives ‘go live’ from today, Friday 1 October. Cygnet Health Care are delighted to be a partner in the the South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw Provider Collaborative for Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS).
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