"outcome focused specialist health care and rehabilitation"
Orchard
Client Group and Admission Criteria
4 single and 1 double apartment-style accommodation for people with a mild – moderate learning disability who find it difficult to share accommodation due to clinical presentation or rehabilitative needs.
The admission criteria is for service users, aged 18-65, with a primary diagnosis of learning disability/mental impairment with complex behavious who require an intensive support service. The pre-admission process is managed by referral via MHC's placement team. Admissions are on a short and medium term basis.
The Service and Staff Team
Orchard provides six intensive residential support service beds which meet the needs of service users who have a learning disability and who may display complex behavioural challenges to themselves, others and services. As an Intensive Support Service, Orchard would be a 'step-up' service for service users who may have complex needs or who may suffer a relapse. It also offers a 'step-down' facility for service users discharged from hospital on Section 17 Leave or under Guardianship Order (1983 Mental Health Act).
The service's aim is to support, stabilise and provide a pathway to other 'ordinary living' models of care within the existing resources of MHC.
The service provides fluidity and a contingency at times of crisis, which allows an effective service provision solution within the Company's service structures for this complex group of people.