Specialised Rehabilitation and Step-Down Services
Partnerships in Care (PiC) use the recovery approach
designed to empower patients by providing opportunity and hope
through active rehabilitation programmes. Our recovery units all
share the following principles of care:
Encouraging empowerment
We encourage individuals to take increasing responsibility for
their own mental health and ultimately their own decisions and
goals in life. Our step-down services encourage the empowerment an
individual needs before returning to living and engaging fully in
the community.
Pathways to recovery
Promoting recovery
Engaging with men and women to enable them to assist in planning
their care with hope and optimism and work towards independence and
autonomy even when long term support may be required.
Whole-systems approach
Recovery offers a whole-systems approach in that it takes into
account a person's whole experience and seeks to regain and enhance
it following a period of illness.
Therapy & activities based
A wide range of therapies and activities are offered within our
units which also aim to assist individuals in utilising community
resources.
Multidisciplinary teams
Psychiatrists, psychologists, registered mental health nurses,
occupational therapists, support workers and care workers are key
members of the clinical teams at each service. They work
collaboratively to help each person achieve their own
potential.
Outcomes-focussed
At the point of admission we would aim to share with
commissioners and the individual, the likely duration of their stay
in PiC step-down services. We believe our services have been
successful when the next step in an individual's pathway is visible
and achievable. Whilst our step-down services provide long stay
environments for some men and women, most will move on to supported
living or independent life in the community.
Recovery programmes
The fundamental philosophies of PiC recovery programmes are
individualised self determination and autonomous decision making.
For many men and women the transition to a service where they are
responsible for the management of their lives is traumatic.
With more than 25 years experience of providing specialist
psychiatric care and treatment, PiC Clinicians have developed a
range of skills and interventions that acknowledge the difficulties
of change and reduce the possibility of placement breakdown.
The proximity of PiC recovery facilities to a PiC hospital
allow, where appropriate, a gradual transition to an open setting
and a reassuring safety net in the event of a crisis.
Risk
Working with men and women, many of whom have significant
forensic histories, the management of risk is a key element of work
in recovery services.
Working with skilled staff, individuals are helped to understand
the changing nature of risk and the need for personal management
strategies.
Where individuals have histories of substance abuse, counselling
from PiC staff is offered and contact with local community
services, i.e. Alcoholics Anonymous, encouraged.
PiC Brain Injury Services are nationally recognised for the
excellence of their clinical programmes. Brain injury specific
recovery services build on the work of in-patient units and meet
the unique needs of men and women with acquired brain injuries.
Relapse management
Many men and women in recovery services will have experienced
multiple hospital admissions associated with relapse.
Individuals are encouraged to understand the relationships
between mood, situation and the potential for relapse of illness.
Relapse management strategies will be tailored to the needs of the
individual and utilise a range of community supports.
PiC is uniquely positioned to provide this response.