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Chichester offers low secure accommodation for 15 men with mental health needs at Langdon Hospital.
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How we can help
Secure and forensic services
Our secure services are focused on providing support for men who have experience with the legal system because of their mental health needs. We aim to provide a safe and secure environment that enables them to receive a wide range of treatments, therapies and care options to assist in their recovery.
The majority of the people who use our service are subject to the Mental Health Act (1983).
People staying with us will reside in either our medium secure, or low secure accommodation:
- Dewnans Centre - our medium secure accommodation
- Chichester - our low secure rehabilitation centre
How we can help
Our aim is to provide a safe and supportive environment where people can receive the care, treatment and encouragement they need, to help them manage their lives as independently as possible.
We deliver short-to-medium term treatment programmes to support people when they leave us and return to the community.
- Beds 15
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Langdon Hospital
Exeter Road
Dawlish
EX7 0NR
01626 884 401 or 01626 884 402
Carers and families
We believe that carers, families and friends are as important as the person staying at Langdon.
We work hard to develop real partnerships with carers. By providing opportunities for them to share their experiences, we can work together to improve the services we offer.
We know that the idea of a secure hospital setting can be a frightening experience when a loved one, friend or relative is admitted, but it doesn't need to be.
What happens when your loved one is admitted?
We will contact you within 48 hours of admission. We will visit you to gain a better understanding of your thoughts, feelings and experiences. We will be asking you to share information, but alongside this we would value your views about the person's strengths, hobbies, activities and positive factors that were in their life before the onset of their mental health difficulties.
This will help us understand the person that exists alongside the diagnosis.
We will provide you with a carers information pack. This contains the following:
- What we offer at Langdon Hospital
- Reasons for admission
- The legal framework, mental health tribunal, hospital managers meetings, confidentiality
- Who is involved in your relative's care - key people and what they do
- Visiting Langdon, video conferencing and Skype
- Care, treatment and restraint
- Help, support, useful information, contact numbers
- Carers events.
Getting involved
We provide a number of ways you can get involved as a carer:
- Attend a carers event, which we hold twice a year
- Get involved in the recruitment of our staff
- Get involved in the delivery of 'customer care' training for our staff
- Represent carers on our governance forum
- Deliver sessions for other carers in our Discovery Centre
- Carers newsletter.
As well as having the opportunity to attend one of our carers events, you will also be kept up-to-date by our carers newsletter which the patients produce three times a year.
Your stay
When you arrive you will be shown around and introduced to staff and other people staying at Chichester House. Through an induction session they will explain everything about the unit, daily routines and what to expect during your stay.
You will be closely involved in planning your care. As well as routine meetings every three weeks, you will be invited to attend more detailed meetings every three or four months to see how things are going. You can invite friends, family members or an advocate (someone to speak on your behalf) to these meetings. Independent advocates visit on a regular basis and will be happy to talk to you about your needs.
Visitors
All visitors must be on the approved visitor list and are welcome between 9am and 8.30pm. Staff can help to arrange visits at other times.
We will try and make a quiet room available for you. The hospital grounds may also be available for some visits.
All visitors must contact the unit to arrange a visit, preferably giving 24 hours notice, and report to the office on arrival.
A member of staff will welcome and escort you onto the unit or to the visitors room. If you want anyone under 18 to visit, this will need to be discussed and agreed in advance. There is a child friendly room available.