Osmington Admission Criteria
The team work closely with our head of therapeutic services Peter Kelly, DPSE Dip Psych UKCP / UKATC Registered Psychotherapist, He provides support and guidance to the Manager and staff team through monthly consultation.
He enables the team to identify particular behaviours, analyse them and develop strategies to help young people manage emergency (looking for admission within 24 - 48 hours) and them, forming part of a behaviour management programme. Short notice (2 - 7 days) admissions.
Young people can be placed at Osmington house for short, medium and long term placements.
Although we prefer clear planned admissions (over a week) we are able to take we will support any referring agency to ensure that this is a smooth and planned process, we are able to provide a list of required information to enable all risk assessments to be conducted and for all emergency placements we hold a planning meeting within 72 hours of admission.
Placements at Osmington are time limited for up to six months.
We are happy to consider: Young people of both sexes aged between nine to sixteen on admission.
Young people with problematic behaviours such as: Aggression, ADHD, Minor Offences, and Some self harm Young people with, Aspergers Syndrome on the lower end of the spectrum.
A need to break a cycle of placement breakdowns and rejection.
A need for time out or respite from an ongoing placement.
A need for a short-term placement to allow identification of a planned medium to long-term placement.
A need for a registered address.
Osmington is unable to provide placements for the following young people:
Where there is evidence of psychosis, including drug and alcohol psychosis.
Clear evidence where our insurers deem the risk of fire-setting to be too high. Life threatening violence precipitating the referral to the service.
Section 53 offences - serious offences such as rape etc, which if committed, would attract a lengthy custodial sentence.
Referrals can be made by either contacting the registered manager directly, to the Placements Team (details below) or by following the links on this web site.
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