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Sefton Park bases its personalised treatment on the belief that no two clients’ treatment needs are the same
A personAl touch
SEFTON PARK IS A RESIDENTIAL
ADDICTIONS TREATMENT CENTRE located by
the beach in the seaside town of Weston-super-Mare.
This year the service is celebrating 25 years of helping
people become free from addiction.
Our shared belief is that every individual has the
right to care, respect, autonomy and choice, and that
every individual should also have the opportunity to
change the way they live. We provide that opportunity
by helping the client to understand the causes of their
addiction and gain more control over their lives.
OUR TREATMENT APPROACH
As an alternative to 12-step, the treatment we provide
takes a self-empowerment approach, helping the
client to gain a better understanding of their
underlying issues, attitudes and behaviours.
The qualified and experienced team deploy a wide
range of cognitive and person-centred interventions
within the caring and supportive environment of the
therapeutic community. In this way, we help our
clients to better understand their underlying feelings
and anxieties within a person-centred ethos.
The detox facility is now in its second year and has
had an excellent response and very good outcomes.
We also partner with other units in the South West to
provide full medically assisted detoxes.
WORKING WITH THE FAMILY AND
SIGNIFICANT OTHERS
We recognise that addiction is something that affects
the whole family. If requested by the client we will
facilitate family conferences in the interest of
establishing dialogue and mutual understanding
around the impact that substance misuse has on the
family. This can also prove to be a good opportunity for
the client and their family to consider the choices
open to them for the near and more distant future.
Staff encourage family visits at weekends as we
understand the importance of the family unit and the
support that can be provided through social visits.
HEALTHY LIVING AND MINDFULNESS
We support the client in building confidence by
helping them develop their potential.
We provide a ‘Discovery Day’ in a rural environment
that promotes new experiences through risk taking
and team building. These are outdoors activities such
as falconry, rope climbing, orienteering, bushcraft and
woodland cooking – lots of team-based exercises and
having fun in the outdoors.
Fortnightly, our staff organise a ‘Mindfulness Day’,
with the opportunity to experience a whole raft of
mindfulness activities – acupuncture, meditation,
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Client comments from the latest
CQC inspection:
poetry, music and artwork, depending on what’s
available on that particular day. The client selects their
own choice from the activities. It’s about relaxing,
learning, experiencing new things and self-expression
through art and poetry – doing things that allow
people to reconnect with themselves. It’s about re-
finding your inner self.
FOOD IS A LARGE PART OF RECOVERY.
We focus on a healthy lifestyle and our kitchen team
ensure that all dietary requirements and preferences
are catered for. We bake our own bread each day and
our clients enjoy a varied diet and healthy range of
meals. We have considerable experience of supporting
clients with food issues and a well-developed
understanding of the support required.
Exercise is also encouraged – there are
opportunities to access a local gym and the two miles
of sandy beach on our doorstep create the opportunity
for walks, running and bike rides. Bikes are provided!
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...the care they received was
individualised”
...found the staff working for the
service to be exceptionally kind,
caring and supportive”
...appreciated how staff
encouraged them to take
responsibility for their recovery”
...staff treating them as
individuals, respecting their
individual needs”
...supporting them to make the
choices that were important to
them”
ACCESS TO STRUCTURED AFTERCARE AND
SUPPORTED HOUSING A WHOLE TEAM APPROACH TO CLIENT CARE
Having access to aftercare support is a very important
element of the treatment journey, so aftercare services
are available to all Sefton Park clients. If you’re in
recovery and you’ve completed Sefton Park then our
aftercare support is available for as long as it’s needed.
We also offer aftercare support via Skype.
We offer support with housing via our experienced
aftercare and resettlement worker and enjoy strong
connections with a range of supported housing
providers in the local area and across the country. Each
client who completes treatment at Sefton Park will
normally have access to supported housing locally. The whole team at Sefton Park take pride in
supporting each individual client in achieving a
successful treatment outcome, with the client’s needs
at the core of what they do. The work is intensive, and
it’s very much client-centred which means it’s
personalised to the needs of each client.
You can put any four clients in a room together and
it will soon be obvious that they are not the same.
Each client is different and has different issues to
address. Each client is on a different journey.
So, each client needs an individualised approach
that recognises their differences.
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