Highams Lodge
High-support - Psychologically Informed Therapeutic Environment
Service Overview
- 24-hour accommodation (waking nights)
- Mixed gender
- Adults 18+
- 15 ensuite-bedrooms
- Shared lounge, kitchen, and garden area, therapy room and group room spaces
- 1:1 psychotherapy each week
- 1:1 key work sessions
- Weekly therapeutic programme
- Resident training opportunities
Staffing
Highams Lodge is staffed 24-hours a day, with waking night cover. CHT employs staff committed to recovery, and encourages applications from those with lived experience. Highams Lodge staff team is made up of Live-in Support Workers, Therapeutic Support Workers, Senior Therapeutic Support Workers, an integrated fully qualified Psychologist/Psychotherapist, a registered Social Worker, and a Registered Manager. The service is also supported by a Psychiatrist, a Lead Psychotherapist and Senior Manager.
Our dedicated staff are crucial to the successful delivery of recovery and therapeutic services, so CHT is committed to providing high quality staff training, including Skills for Care training for staff and managers, and a 20-module tailored programme of training in psychosocial theory and practice.
Staff also have regular supervision, weekly reflective practice facilitated by the service psychologist, and access to an employee assistance programme.
My name is Alistair and I recently became the manager of our Highams Lodge service in Highams Park. I have worked in Health and social care for 25 years.
During that time, I have worked in various settings which have presented me with the opportunity to work with clients who were homeless, and who had often experienced multiple societal disadvantages.
Throughout my time in the sector, the client/professional relationship has always been crucial to outcomes achieved.
Most recently, I managed a large team delivering Outreach support to clients who had been diagnosed with Autism.
Service Manager
Alistair Dinsmore
Hello, my name is Valentina. I have trained as Jungian Psychotherapist and working in supported housing within mental health and young people settings for the past 10 years in a variety of roles including a therapeutic one.
I have recently joined CHT as it brings together the therapeutic and the more practical support offer to individuals who otherwise might never be able to access psychotherapy.
I am passionate about wellbeing in general and I believe our society needs much more education and support around emotional intelligence and community building. As human beings do not thrive in isolation I believe psychological wellbeing, empathy and community building are the basis for a real change in this world.
Psychotherapist
Valentina Chiricallo