Ashfield Healthcare
Healthcare is provided by a team consisting of a clinical manager, a primary nurse, nine nursing staff, a medical co-ordinator and two children and adolescence mental health service (CAMHS) staff. The CAMHS staff deal with young people with mental health and social problems. The following services are provided:
- Medicine rounds - three times daily
- Daily triage clinics
- Daily reviews of young persons receiving healthcare
- Daily doctor's surgeries
- Daily reception screenings
- Daily risk assessment team meetings
- Twice weekly asthma clinics
- Twice weekly Hepatitis B vaccination clinics
- Twice weekly Mumps, Measles, Rubella vaccination clinics
- Weekly reviews of trainees in the re-orientation unit
- Weekly dental surgeries
- Weekly psychiatrist visits
- Weekly self-harm steering group meetings
- Weekly induction sessions
- Fortnightly genito-urinary medicine clinics
- Fortnightly psychiatrists clinics
- Monthly optician clinics
- Monthly chiropody clinics
- Monthly diabetic clinics
- Smoking cessation support
- Cryogenics clinics
There is a Stay Safe policy in place which incorporates suicide and self-harm reviews, child protection measures and anti-bullying advice.
The Stay Safe policy is driven by the internal child protection and anti-bullying co-ordinator, Georgina May.
Ashfield also has an internal psychology department which advises on anger management, victim awareness and MORE (motivating offenders to rethink everything).
We have twelve workers who form our Substance Misuse Team. Working closely with other custodial staff, the Substance Misuse Team works with all the young people on interventions for substance use. The aim is to provide a seamless package of care. Using a programme called "Next Step" - a cognitive-behavioural and social skills based programme, the team tackle substance misuse problems.
All young people are initially assessed for substance misuse and they are then educated regarding all substances. The education programme is run twice a day for four weeks and the young people are encouraged to identify their own problems. We offer focussed one-to-one sessions and continual support.
Ashfield is a no-smoking establishment and we offer support and replacement therapy. We have eight trained acupuncturists who provide support to both young people and staff.