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CAMHS is expanding! The 8-bed inpatient High Intensity Environment/PICU at Alumhurst Road, Bournemouth, is a brand-new state of the art building, designed with input from young people and their families who directly benefit from the facilities. We provide exceptional care to young people aged between 13 and 18 experiencing acute mental health difficulties.
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If you have any questions or would like to have an informal chat with a member of our team before applying, please contact
Claire Ozmond, CAMHS Inpatient Clinical Service Manager at claire.
Rebecca Matoug, Ward Manager at rebecca.
Careers inbox at dhc.
Meet the ward manager, Rebecca:
“I have enjoyed working with all ages but since specialising in children and
Find out more about the ward:
We are creating a brand new inpatient intensive care unit at our Alumhurst Road site. This will be for children and young people in mental health crisis, providing:
- improved emergency support and standards of care for children and young people
- younger patients with the specialist care they need
- the latest facilities will improve recovery times
- treatment closer to friends and family, with space for families to stay if needed
- fewer distressing out-of-area placements, which separates children and young people from their loved ones, hampering their chances of recovery.
The facility is known as a psychiatric intensive care unit (PICU), and it will be accessed through the child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS).
A CAMHS PICU is an in-patient intensive care unit for young people in severe mental health crisis, with needs so significant that they need 24-hour, secure care. In it, we will be treating young people who require inpatient treatment with needs are so complex they can’t safely be managed on a general adolescent unit such as one at the adjacent Pebble Lodge.
Some of these young people will have an eating disorder where they might need feeding through a tube via their nose, known as nasogastric feeding. They may be young people at high risk of suicide and self-harm or who have a mental illness which is making them more difficult to manage on an open ward due to their behaviour towards others. Some would be detained under the Mental Health Act for their own protection and that of others, and to enable them to get the right care so they can recover from mental health crisis.
- New 1,500m2 modern ward
- eight inpatient ensuite bedrooms including one fully accessible bedroom
- a de-escalation room and seclusion suite
- one seclusion room and one de-escalation room
- an extra-care suite
- a two-classroom school facility
- a tribunal room
- games room, gym, occupational therapy kitchen, central courtyard, activities therapy room and a sensory room
- space for family visits
- nasogastric feeding facilities
