Team/Service Name

Student Education Induction Pack

This induction pack is to help you as a learner to familiarise yourself with the team. It provides you with the basics about the team and should help you to plan to meet your learning needs.

We recommend that all learners contact the team in good time prior to placement to identify who will be supervising your learning and confirm start times/hours.

During your placement you should have a minimum of a preliminary, midpoint and final meeting with whoever is supervising your learning. You should also undertakesome form of leaning analysis then produce a learning contract and or action plan that provide structure and direction to the time you are with us. Your supervisor will be able to help draw this together but you must take a lead in negotiating your plan. Some examples of these tools are provided but you may wish to use those produced by your education provider.

Please ensure that you present any documents regarding your placement with our staff on the first day of your placement. This should include any assessment document, learning outcomes you hope to achieve and any type of ongoing record of achievement.

On completion of your placement you will be asked to provide an evaluation. Please take time to complete this openly and honestly as it is only with your feedback can we improved the quality of these valuable learning experiences.

We hope you find the time on your placement enjoyable and productive.

Date of production or last review and update / 21st of April 2016
Author or reviewer / Liam Donovan Deputy Manager
Placement Induction and Details
Team/service name: /

Ashley House (The Hatherton Centre)

Address: / Ashley House
The Hatherton Centre
St Georges Hospital
Corporation Street, Stafford
ST16 3AG / Team telephone number/s: / 01785 257 888
(ext 5010 & 5014)
Team/service webpage:
Team email
Other contact details:
Service Description: / Ashley House is an inpatient ward with for 13 maleinpatients; it is theacute forensic admissions ward within the Hatherton centre part of the local forensic directorate. The Hatherton centre is made up of four inpatient ward and purpose built Occupational therapy department including a gym and sportshall.
Our admission criteria includes prisons, courts, high secure hospitals, other medium secure units, low secure services, adult psychiatric wards and from the community. There are four clinical teams within the Hatherton centre that operate a functionalisation model of one clinical team for each ward environment. Ashley House is part of the Acute Stream within the service and service users may have severe or challenging mental health symptoms, behaviors and may have a forensic history which necessitatesassessment in a medium secure setting.
Team philosophy: / Ashley House provides high quality health care in a medium secure setting within a local catchment area. Through a collaborative approach to mental health and risk assessment where we include the service user as much as possible, we provide a recovery focused pathway of care. Following unit and trust policies Ashley staff strive to provide the best possible service through engagement and evidence based assessment, care and treatment. Each service user will be treated as an individual, with dignity and respect and will be involved, where possible in all aspects of their care pathway. In their recovery they are supported to their optimum level of self actualization which can be built on as they move through the unit. Pathways from Ashley can follow to rehabilitation wards within the unit or to appropriate accommodation dependant on outcomes of treatment, risk assessments’ and retained living skills. The ward maintains its standards of care through regular auditing and review from internal and external bodies, encompassing Clinical Governance that the unit strives to achieve and benchmark and through ward meeting / group supervision in order to focus on ward climate and culture.
Team welcome: / Welcome to Ashley house, we hope you will gain as much experience of a forensic acute ward as possible and for you to feel part of our team.
Hours of the service / 24hour / Hours of work / 24hrs
Directorate: / Forensics / Student capacity (all disciplines combined): / 2
Service manager: / Sam Mason / Contact number / 5653
Team Education Lead / Liam Donovan (Deputy Manager) / Contact number / 5010
Team members / Discipline / Specialist interest/skills and expertise / Particular learning opportunities: / Education supervisor status:
Names / Psychologist, Nurse, OT, secretary… / Sexual Abuse Specialist, Infection Control Champion, Dual Diagnosis link, medical correspondence… / e.g. Assessments, Therapy, Engagement, diary management / status i.e. practices teacher/ mentor/ signoff mentor, NVQ Assessor
1x ward manager / Nurse / Ward Manager / Leadership and management – DMI instructor – / Mentor
2x Deputy managers / Nurse / Knowledge and skills of forensic nursing and management / Leadership and management of Acute and rehabilitation pathway. / Mentors
14x staff nurses / S/N’s / Knowledge and skills of forensic nursing. / Acute interventions and care delivery. Group work facilitators and mentors. Violent offender facilitator and mentors. A broad range of psychological approached including CBT PSI Motivational interviewing. Use of assessment tools to assess including BDI and PANSS and risk assessments HCR20. Delivery of care via the clinical single team and vie clinical reviews.
Staff nurse trained in personality disorder and dual diagnosis.
Staff nurse trained to facilitate Reasoning and rehabilitation training. / 5 Mentors
One sign off
Ward based Occupational Therapist / OT / Knowledge and skills of Occupational therapy within physical health care.
Ward based psychology assistant
14x HCSW / HCSW / Knowledge and skills of forensic nursing / Broad experience in mental health settings, co-working of patient group – undertaking 1:1 sessions and delivery of care. Delivering group work and ward based group work.
Occupational Therapist / OT / Knowledge and skills of occupational therapy and forensic setting
PAC – Pathway administration coordinator / ADMIN duties / Ward admin support and data collection / presentation for forensic services. Logistical support to maintain a safe ward environment.
Learning opportunities/experiences across the team: / The ward based team is made up of 34 members of staff with varied knowledge and skills from across the entire Hatherton centre and community team. There are opportunities such as the Occupational therapy department, community team and court liaison and time with social work department. The Hatherton has four inpatient wards that vary from an ICU to long term rehabilitation as such offer a wide degree of experiences.
Discipline specific learning opportunities: / Discipline specific opportunities range from day to day activities such as ward based engagement groups and daily interventions to more indepth task such as Shared pathway the national standard for MSU, care planning, evaluating and risk assessing using the HC20 and collaborative risk assessment with service users. Clinical reviews, CPAs MHA appeals,117 meetings.Medication prescription and administration and psychologically informed interventions.
Local links and networks: / The Hatherton centre has links to a dedicated community team, prison in reach services as well as local links to St Chad’s for facilities there and Ellesmere House a forensic learning disability service.
Types of treatments interventions offered within the service / Ashley House interventions are recovery orientated and may include individual sessions, psychosocial interventions, relapse work with relapse signatures and time lines. We offer low and high intensity interventions from ward based groups to mentoring Violent offender programmes.
Being an acute environment we offer short term and long term management of potential/actual aggression and have a low stimulus facility. Medication prescription and administration. We have close links to Newport House ICU as the acute stream pathway.
The frameworks and models of care used / Ashley house operates a recovery focused environment whilst being risk aware. Currently we are working to a collaborative approach to care using a shared pathway to encourage engagement and a partnership with service users. The Hatherton centre has single team approach, one clinical team per ward area with a review on a Tuesday.
Site specific Health, Safety & Security / The Hatherton centre is a medium secure hospital that operates to the MSU best practice specification 2006. The Hatherton centre has an air lock system at our reception and Ashley house has a second air lock to gain access to the ward. Other doors on the unit are accessed with a key. Students must complete an induction of the unit and key policy before one can be issued,all staff to be issued with a key need to be wearing a belt. There is a contraband policy of items not allowed on the unit. They will be made aware of Fire procedures. There is an observation policy ranging from 5min to hourly monitoring plus more intensive observation with staff remaining with service users for 24hrs of the day to maintain safety. Ashley House follows the relational /procedural and environmental security and uses the DOH See Think Act document for relational security in a medium secure environment.
Expectations of students / Students are expected to complete an induction before a key can be issued, students should dress and conduct themselves in a professional manner and be aware of the client group, there is an expectation on keeping own and colleges’ boundaries. They should wear a belt and suitable trousers with pockets or a pouch to store the key and chain. Students should maintain professional boundaries at all time, this is regarding personal details of self and others.They should have good time keeping and be aware of shift times. There will be agreed learning objectives with mentor and set action plans and time scales and there is positive expectation for good attitudes to learning.
Housekeeping / There is an onsite restaurant that operates limited opening hours but can be accessed 24hrs a day via a code (can be sourced from Hatherton reception). Car parking is busy from 12-3.
Useful student contact details / Clinical Placement Facilitator Helen Allen07791501278(Shropshire)
Clinical Placement Facilitator Stuart Moyles07971978096(Staffordshire)
Clinical Education and Development LeadTim Devanney07540789644
Staffordshire University01785 353766
KeeleUniversity01782732000
WolverhamptonUniversity01902321000
CoventryUniversity02476887688
DerbyUniversity01332590500
Trust Library Services Lichfield01543 414555
Shelton 01743 492283
Stafford01785 221584
Please add other useful numbers

Examples of SWAT tool, Learning Contract and ActionPlans

SWOT

Relates to Learning Outcome: ______

Strengths / Weaknesses/Limitations
Opportunities / Threats/Barriers

Signed (Learner): Date:

Learning Contract

Relates to Learning Outcome: ______Date: ______

Desired Learning Experience / Actions / Evidence / Timescale
Review of Learning Contract- Learner / Review of Learning Contract - Supervisor

Signed Learner:Date: Signed Supervisor: Date:

Action Plan

Relates to Learning Outcome: ______Date: ______

Areas for Improvement / Specific Actions / Timescale / Evidence
Review of Action Plan - Learner / Review of Action Plan - Supervisor

Signed Learner:Date: Signed Supervisor: Date:

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