Mount Lodge

High-support -Psychologically Informed Therapeutic Environments

Service Overview

  • 24-hour accommodation (waking nights)
  • Mixed gender
  • Adults 18+
  • 15 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


Holly has worked in Health and Social Care for more than 13 years, and has been at Community Housing and Therapy since 2010. During her time with CHT, Holly was the Deputy Manager at Mount Lodge for four and a half years working closely with the registered Manager to provide a therapeutic service to residents as well as supervising and supporting staff. In November 2017, Holly took on the post of Trainee Service Manager and was subsequently promoted to her current position as Service Manager in January 2019.


Holly holds a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology and a Post Graduate Diploma in Psychotherapy for Practitioner in a Therapeutic Environment.

Emma is the Community Therapist at Mount Lodge. She has worked in Health and Social Care settings for more than 20 years in a range of settings; mental health, family assessment services and counselling services for students. Emma has worked for Community Housing and Therapy for over 15 years in a range of roles, having previously been the registered Manger for a CHT service for 5 years.


Emma holds a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology with Social Science and a Post Graduate Diploma in Psychodynamic Psychotherapeutic Counselling (BACP). She is completing further psychotherapy training in Body Psychotherapy (UKCP)


Psychotherapist

Service Manager

Emma Pyle

Holly Moore

Staffing

Mount 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. Mount 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.

Contact

5 Upper Avenue, Eastbourne, BN21 3UY

T: (01323) 411 312

E: mountlodge@cht.org.uk