A multi-disciplinary team works with each patient to optimise their level of functioning, promote recovery and manage the risks they present.
All staff working in the service receive ongoing training in British Sign Language (BSL) as part of their job role and Deaf staff have been actively recruited to all positions within the service. Fully qualified, and specifically trained, BSL interpreters are embedded within the service and used for formal communications with Deaf patients/ staff if appropriate.
In addition to milieu, nursing, occupational, social, educational and pharmacological therapies, patients also receive specific individual and group cognitive-behaviourally based treatment interventions. Depending upon individual need these may include: psychoeducation, communication skills enhancement, relapse prevention, substance abuse prevention and offence specific interventions focused on reducing risk and criminogenic factors.
Comprehensive care planning underpins the patient journey through the service and this also includes rigorous risk assessment and management.
Regular use of structured professional judgement risk assessment tools will help to ensure that each service users risks are fully identified, characterised and managed. The routine use of outcome measures will allow each individual patient’s progress to be monitored and optimised as well as providing feedback on service quality.
More information contact Dr Simon Gibbon on 01604 616729 (Typetalk 18001 01604 606729) or email
sgibbon@standrew.co.uk