Rehabilitation

St Catherine's Day Treatment Service provides a therapeutic programme working with service users. The service helps identify people's needs, develop a care plan, work towards goals and review progress.  

The service supports people with enduring mental health problems. The aim is to build coping strategies, break social isolation and promote social inclusion. We do this through meaningful activities that build networks. We also provide training that may lead to employment.  

St Catherine's Day Treatment Service aims are to:  

• Create a safe, supportive and therapeutic environment for everyone who attends the unit. Also to promote a sense of achievement, hope and confidence in service users’ ability to reach their Recovery goals  

• Provide a range of creative, active and social activities to promote Recovery-focused intervention  

• Provide an assessment and treatment service for mental health needs. Also to check, manage and signpost physical health needs, where needed  

• Deliver interventions which are needs-led and service user centred. Also to enable a person to function independently within their own community. We do this by enabling and supporting self-management. We promote autonomy and this decreases the need for people to rely on formal services and professional supports  

• Maximise the quality of life of people with complex mental health problems. We do this by developing care packages to meet their assessed mental health needs  

• Provide time limited support to people whose ability to manage activities of daily living would otherwise be at risk. This helps to maintain the independence of the individual  

• Work with other teams and agencies to develop care packages for people with complex needs  

• Enable improvement in mental health and levels of functioning to a point at which discharge to primary care is possible. Also to prevent escalation of the person’s mental health needs to avoid a crisis  

• Ensure that the service user remains at the heart of their care, working with GPs and primary care as part of a systems wide approach  

• Work within Care Programme Approach to ensure risk assessments, care plans and crisis plans are completed  

• Provide more support to people who are difficult to engage. Aim to maintain contact and increase engagement and compliance  

This Service treats people 18 years and over.  It covers the geographical area of the Borough of Great Yarmouth.