Sussex Oakleaf provides residential care in Burgess Hill, Worthing, Bognor Regis and Eastbourne. Within this environment we aim to provide our residents with the confidence, skills, and choices to enable them to work with the staff towards becoming as self- managing and independent as possible, to promote fulfillment and an enhanced quality of life. The nature of our support is very much community based, with an emphasis on peer support and resident involvement.
In addition to long-term placements, the service also offers structured rehabilitation and recovery support for people wanting to move into a supported housing placement within 6 to 24 months. Our skilled and trained staff work 1:1 with people to identify their needs and wishes and draw up a goal-orientated action plan to develop the necessary skills and confidence to move-on. We support positive risk taking for all residents and see it as an essential part of learning and recovery.
All residents are encouraged to take a central role in the planning of their care and support. Recovery-focused care and support plans are drawn up with their link worker to address residents’ needs, wishes and choices to empower them to improve their quality of life, re-gain control over their life and promote independence. An emphasis is placed on daily living skills, self care, interpersonal and community skills, without neglecting other needs which may be psychological, cultural, spiritual, emotional and social.
The care and support plans are flexible and responsive and designed to take an holistic view of the person’s ability to recover personal aspirations and priorities. We promote community participation, social inclusion and link in with community services, both day services and mainstream services. For more information about Sussex Oakleaf’s Day Services, click here . We work closely with multi disciplinary Community Mental Health Teams, family/carers, advocates and other professionals to ensure the best possible care and support is provided.
Sussex Oakleaf’s principle of care and support is based on recovery, choice, empowerment and social inclusion.
Two thirds of all British press and TV coverage on mental health includes an association with violence. (Health Education Authority 1998) 44% of respondents to a study by the Mental Health Foundation in 2000 reported stigma and discrimination from GPs. Sandamas and Hogman, 2000, found that black people are twice as likely to be involuntarily detained under the Mental Health Act than white people.
