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Octavia House

Octavia House

15 East Grange Drive
Leeds
West Yorkshire

LS10 3EH

0113 271 5855

team.octavia@commlinks.co.uk

About the service

Octavia House is one of Community Links’ three Intermediate Support Hostels providing recovery-focused support in a therapeutic environment. The hostel supports men and women aged 18+ with moderate to severe mental health problems or personality disorders.

Octavia House offers Level 1 support. This includes mental health and independent living rehab support and is staffed 24/7.

Aims of the service

We provide 6 accommodation-based Resettlement placements offering intensive rehabilitation for up to 8 months. These are primarily aimed at individuals coming out of hospital following an admission due to mental health issues and aim to promote and maximise recovery, helping clients to move on to live more independently.

We also provide 1 accommodation based Relapse-Prevention placement from 2 nights to 1 week, depending on need for up to a 2 year period. The aim of this element of the service is to support people to manage their recovery, and decrease frequency and severity of relapse or crisis.

Clients are actively involved in the running of the house and in their support and care. Living at the hostel is an opportunity for people to develop relationships, practice social skills and acknowledge their personal responsibility. Residents will be involved in cooking, cleaning, shopping and attending house meetings. Alongside developing living skills we provide recovery-focused rehabilitation through clinical and emotional support.

Residents are allocated a key worker upon admission to the service and have regular one to one sessions with their keyworker. We also place importance on the team approach, and residents will receive support from other workers.

We utilise a person centred approach and work collaboratively with residents to help them identify their goals. We use support plans and outcome star tools to support residents to achieve their goals and review their recovery journey. We support residents to take part in the running of the hostel to provide opportunity to develop confidence and skills needed to live more independently.

Octavia House is different in that we are 24 hour service and have the benefit of being able to offer lots of support to residents and respond quickly to changes in residents needs.

The therapeutic community and emphasis on residents personal responsibility offers residents opportunity to develop many skills and test things out in safe environment.

Referrals

To make a referral please contact Accommodation Gateway.

Referring for Prevention

Client should reside in one of the following postcode areas : LS10; LS11; LS12; LS13; LS26; LS27; LS28; BD11; WF3

To refer a client in the community for Resettlement or Prevention please contact Accommodation Gateway.

More information

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