Page 8 - Calderstone AR 2015

08 Calderstones Partnership NHS Foundation Trust Yearbook 2014 - 2015
About the Trust
Our headquarters are in the Ribble Valley, near Whalley, where we provide specialist service user care. We also have services in Gisburn and Rochdale. Most of our service users are from the North West of England and Yorkshire.
We provide specialist Forensic Services for people with a learning disability who have significant and complex needs that cannot be met by local services.
The majority of our service users are admitted with civil or court sections of the mental health act and/or restricted by the Ministry of Justice. Our service is delivered using the principle of least restriction and our aim is to maximise opportunity for service users to work towards more independent living and receive specialist therapy geared towards their personalised recovery.
Current in-patient services provided:
• 52 medium secure forensic – 36 at
Woodview and 16 at Gisburn Lodge
• 96 low secure beds provided at West
Drive, Maplewood 1 and Maplewood 2
• Step Down Services on the
Calderstones site – 15 male and 5
female beds
• Lancaster learning disability service
has 10 assessment and treatment
support beds serving the local area.
• Scott House in Rochdale has 15
enhanced support beds
• Enhanced support beds in West Drive
and periphery houses
As at 31 March 2015, the Trust employed a total of 1,054 staff.
Secure services are commissioned by the North of England Specialist Commissioning Group with some spot purchases from Welsh and Scottish Commissioners. The Enhanced Service Provision was commissioned by Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs).
Calderstones Partnership NHS Foundation Trust was the first single speciality Trust to be approved as a Foundation Trust in 2009. Originally formed in 1993, the Trust provides a specialist service to people with learning disabilities.
The Trust set up Future Directions Community Interest Company in 2012 to provide community supported living services across the North West. It also operates Financial Services (East Lancashire Financial Services) which delivers support services to a number of NHS Trusts and CCGs.
Future Directions CIC delivers community supported living services for people with complex needs.
It supports over 160 people in 65 houses in locations across the North West. With the on-going success of Future Directions, during 2014/15 work between both organisations began to launch Future Directions as a stand-alone company. In September 2014, meetings of both Boards agreed to establish a group to properly manage the formal division of the two organisations. From 1 April 2015 Future Directions CIC became a separate social care organisation and ceased
to be a subsidiary of the Trust.
ELFS Shared Services (ELFS) is a business division of the Trust and provides transactional financial and business systems services to 24 NHS client organisations throughout England from its base in Darwen. ELFS is Finance Skills Development Level 3 and ISO 9001 for Quality Management accredited.
The Trust delivers a Forensic Support Service across the North West.
This service provides support and advice to local learning disability services in helping to look after forensic service users in the community and prevent future hospital admissions. With support from the North of England Specialist Commissioning Group, the Forensic Support Service is running a prison in-reach programme and working
with Lancashire Constabulary on improving management of people with a learning disability.
Strategic planning to ensure service users are safe and that services are sustainable over the next 2-5 years has become ever more important and challenging for us. This will mean that we will have to embrace true transformational change that focuses on improving and maintaining quality, but doing things very differently both within the organisation and with key stakeholders.
The importance of working with our commissioners, service users and
our staff has never been required more than in the current climate. During 2014/15 we began to work in collaboration with Mersey Care NHS Trust to ascertain the potential benefits in working closely together to deliver high quality learning disability care in
a more sustainable way. This closer collaboration will initially take the form
of an outline business case which will give both Trust Boards the opportunity to look at how higher quality care can
be provided for people with learning disabilities in a secure and a
non-secure setting. This will also explore future organisational forms which might be required to deliver this step change in learning disability care.
We want to emphasise our commitment to ensuring commissioners; services users and their carers have access to services that deliver high quality and efficient learning disability services and also demonstrates our ability to deliver additional value in a number of areas.