Specialities
	Rejoining The Community
	Kemsley helps adults who have an acquired brain injury prepare to rejoin the wider community. This entails recognising and treating the individual physical, medical, emotional, behavioural and cognitive needs of each patient. The service caters for both men and women. This modern ward in which this treatment is provided has 5 individual flats with kitchens and bathrooms, and 11 single bedrooms with showers. The ward also has dining and lounge areas, laundry facilities, an indoor games area and a training kitchen. There are also rooms for individual and group work; the ward has its own garden and patio. There is a planned programme of treatment in a safe environment which develops skills required for living in the general community. Services include: short-term patient assessments intensive rehabilitation assessing and advising on future placements advice on long-stay facilities full discharge planning respite care Treatment Aims development and maintainance of skills to enable patients to have a more independent lifestyle in the future assist patients to gain control over more extreme and disruptive behaviours Treatment programmes will include: close monitoring and the promotion of interpersonal skills individual and shared responsibility, working with, and alongside others increasing individual choice in line with a patient's abilities enhancing the ability to live independently by developing organisation and time-management skills personal development and awareness through individual feedback