About this location
Located just outside Stroud town centre in Gloucestershire, The Lighthouse is a 5-bedded transitional recovery service for females over the age of 13. This provision is part of Priory’s transitional living services for young people and young adults, offering individuals the best possible care in their recovery journey.
The Lighthouse is a large detached house, which offers a viable alternative to a hospital or secure setting. It achieves this through a high ratio of care, which enables a robust and proactive approach to risk management, whilst supporting people to engage with meaningful activity in the community.
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Our transitional living services support people with complex mental health needs, risk taking behaviours or eating disorders.
Ward break down
- The Lighthouse – 5-bedded residential home for females
Conditions treated
We are able to support young people with:
- Emotional and/or behavioural difficulties
- Acute mental health needs
- Personality disorders
- Depression
- Anxiety
- Self-harm/risk taking behaviours
Treatment approaches
The Lighthouse is a home for children and young people with complex mental health and risk taking behaviours. Our model encompasses a trauma-informed approach to care. Trauma-informed care is based on knowledge and understanding of how trauma affects people’s lives and their care needs. This approach encompasses the young people in our care, their family and our team.
The benefits of trauma-informed care are:
- Young person feels safer
- Actively avoids re-traumatisation
- Empowers the young person – they feel in control
- Validates experiences
PACE: Playfulness, Acceptance, Curiosity, Empathy
Our team strive to use PACE as a trauma-informed approach. This focuses on the way that the caregiver interacts with the young person.
Training, and ongoing discussions in supervision and team meetings, aim to facilitate a robust awareness and consistency of this approach. Our key aim at The Lighthouse is to reduce risks for the people we support, and enable a successful transition into semi-independent living, wherever possible.
Children and young people can stay at The Lighthouse until their 19th birthday. Our assessment and treatment options are overseen by a full and diverse multidisciplinary team (MDT).
Our team
Our team consists of:
- Registered manager
- Deputy manager
- Admissions manager
- Case manager
- Senior support workers
- Support workers
- Specialist psychiatric advisor
- Psychotherapist – therapy lead
- Family therapist
- Occupational therapist
- Finance/Admin
- Chef
- Maintenance officer
Therapeutic and community-based activities
We aim to support young people with a range of therapeutic and community-based activities as part of a full treatment programme. Our aim is to help each patient to become more confident and independent, preparing them to move through their treatment pathway towards community living.
Our facilities and environment
We believe that the environment in which treatment takes place is just as important as the treatment itself, when it comes to supporting our patients. We provide:
Our garden is located at the back of the house. We have a patio area, leading to the lounge.
Our bedrooms
All of our bedrooms are single-occupancy and young people are encouraged to personalise their bedrooms while they are staying with us.
Exclusion profile
- People with an eating disorder
- People with an acute learning disability
- People exhibiting extreme violence or fire-setting behaviour
- People in mental health crisis
Pathways
Priory’s network of high quality facilities enables us to offer joined-up care pathways with our dedicated residential services. We offer programmes which integrate healthcare treatment and therapy, which are tailored according to individual needs, in an appropriate setting. Our strength is that we can provide a seamless transition for the individual as they progress between higher and lower dependency services.
A message from our site leader
We provide a loving, nurturing and homely environment where positive, consistent relationships are built. Just like a Lighthouse, our team serves as a reliable guiding force to help others navigate tough times.
– The Lighthouse site leader
How to make a referral
Our customer service centre provides 24/7 support for NHS mental health enquiries and referrals. Our customer referral co-ordinators can support you from your first call right through to the enquiry conclusion, providing updates throughout the process. We offer 24/7 crisis referrals, fast access to bed availability and placements, and a single access point for end-to-end enquiry management.