The Selden Centre is a modern 10 bed inpatient assessment and intervention unit for adults with learning disabilities to support them back to community living.
The team at the Selden Centre work in partnership with the person, their family and carers to provide a range of expert individualised intensive assessment, intervention, group and therapeutic support.
This film explains a patient's journey at the Selden Centre:
We support people who need to be admitted to hospital who need need more adjustments than can be made in a psychiatric ward due to the severity of the persons learning disability. Admission may be needed due to any risks that are unmanageable in a community setting, including:
The Selden Centre is able to support people who are detained under the Mental Health Act, people who have capacity to agree to an informal admission and do so, or people who are compliant but lack capacity. We ensure the appropriate legal framework is followed.
We believe that people with learning disabilities have the same rights as all members of society and that’s why we place the people who use our services at the heart of what we do.
We will work with the individual, their families or carers, referrers and service providers to determine the outcomes needed and ensure that the person's stay in the centre enables better life quality. We will work together to assess and develop appropriate interventions and care programmes to nurture the individual's skills.
We work hand-in-hand with partner agencies and care managers to identify suitable placements that meet the individual’s identified care and support needs for the future once they are discharged from our service, and we ensure people who will be supporting the person after discharge have the knowledge and skills they need to do so in the most appropriate ways.
The Selden Centre will assess and manage any presenting risks when people are admitted to the unit. Full consideration is given to both current and historical risks and a positive risk-taking approach is used within the context of a formulation-based approach.
Resources
Selden Centre service information leaflet
We support people who:
The Selden Centre operates a non-emergency service which accepts referrals from a number of sources. Referrals can only be accepted if funding has been agreed by the responsible commissioner.
A Community Care and Treatment Review (CTR) or Emergency Meeting, chaired by the responsible commissioner, will have taken place before admission to the Selden Centre is sought.
This helps to ensure that admission cannot be avoided. If possible, when admission to the Selden Centre is being considered, and with the person's consent, we will attend that CTR/ Emergency Meeting to help people think about what admission can achieve and whether there is anything else which can achieve the same outcome.
Referral to the Selden is made via the ward manager or nursing team, between Monday - Friday, 9am - 5pm via Selden@spft.nhs.uk.
At the point of referral, a triage will be offered. This will help us to identify the appropriateness and urgency of the proposed referral, start to identify rationale for admission and key presenting risks. It will also serve to inform any fuller pre-admission assessment (IASS – Initial Assessment Selden Support).
If triage indicates that we may be able to offer appropriate support a pre-admission assessment (IASS) is carried out by the team .
This will give a clear rationale for admission and will help us ensure that if a person is admitted, we have created a welcoming and individualised space for them by the point of admission.
All completed pre-admission assessments are discussed at the weekly referrals meeting and feedback is then provided to the referrer.
The Selden Centre is staffed, 24-7 by qualified learning disability and mental health nurses and trained support staff.
The core therapeutic staff team also includes:
The Selden Centre offers a wide range of specialist assessments that draw on current evidence-base. We use the results of any assessments to inform our care, interventions and future service specifications.
Our pre-admission assessment ensures we have the skills necessary to provide the assessments and interventions which will be needed to support the person to return to community living.
We offer a range of individualised psychological, speech and language therapy and occupational therapy-based assessments and interventions adapted for the needs of people with more severe intellectual disabilities.
Our programme of group activities are run by support staff and the professional team. Sessions include:
Service users and their families are invited to all regular meetings so we can consider together what needs to happen to ensure life quality and move towards discharge.
We adapt these meetings to make it possible for a person to engage in whichever way is most appropriate for them.
The service user's named nurse also regularly contacts a person's family to make sure they are receiving all the information they need about the person's wellbeing and progress and families are welcome to call the centre for additional information when needed.
We have quite long visiting hours to support family contact and people who are at the Selden also often spend time with their family outside of the centre in various ways.
We will address any barriers to service user and family engagement in the admission, assessment and support processes.
The Selden Centre welcomes contact and visits from friends and family members and carers .
Our visiting times are:
We will take account of service users and their family, friends, and carers needs during visits.
We operate protected time between 11am - 2pm, Monday to Friday, so we can focus on assessments and interventions with the service user.
For information about children and young people visiting please see the child visiting policy. We will facilitate visits wherever possible.
Please contact us before visiting so we can remain Covid safe.
We follow these good practice principles to our discharge process:
- Social worker, commissioner, family, placement, advocate Service user, lead practitioner
- Local community services
- GP
- DoLS team
- Advocacy
- The community teams
Please contact us for further information, to give feedback, or to discuss any issues.
Selden Centre reception: 0300 304 2154.
Jarod Newbury, Selden Centre Ward Manager: 0300 304 2154 or email on jarod.newbury@spft.nhs.uk
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What is the Learning Disability Response Plan?
The Learning Disability Response Plan (LDRP) is a partnership between Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust and Sussex Police to ensure the police have a better understanding of individuals needs, reduce contact time with the police and improve outcomes for people who have complex needs.
It will act as an information alert for police officers responding to calls or concerns relating to individuals with learning disabilities, some of whom are diagnosed with mental health and/or complex needs. The response plan will enable the police to make decisions in a more person- centred way as opposed to a crime and evidence motivated-based decision, reducing resources input and providing better outcome for those individuals.
Who is eligible for the LDRP?
Individuals eligible for this scheme will have a previous offence/s or will have had contact with the police within the last year.
How does it work?
If you meet the above criteria, or care for someone who does, email LDRP@sussex.pnn.police.uk. The pack will contain an easy read document to support understanding.
