Our Wellbeing Centres provide support from both Recovery Workers and Peer Support Specialists, with a range of community-based mental health and wellbeing support sessions and groups to enable you to get well, stay well and prevent crisis. 

• Group Support - We offer a wide variety of person-centred groups that are offered within our Centres and on occasion, outdoors. We also offer a range of groups that are offered over online platforms such as Zoom or Microsoft Teams.

Service Engagement

 In order to get the most out of the Service, attending your agreed sessions and communicating with your Key Worker at the Centre is important. If you are struggling to attend your agreed sessions and / or participate in our timetable please let us know so we can work together to explore potential solutions and non-judgmentally support you in improving your circumstances. 

To become a member of the Service we require you to attend an assessment with us. This enables us to better understand your situation and needs and gives you a chance to ask us any questions. We will make contact to book in an assessment as soon as possible, but should we not see engagement at the assessment we will close the referral after two appointment offers. 

Once a member of the service, we will make every effort to maintain contact with you (post, phone, text, email), but if after three months we have not heard back from you we will class you as 'dormant' and that you are no longer needing the service at this present time. This means should you need our support again in the future, you can just contact us by calling or emailing your local centre to enquire how you can be an 'active' Client again.

Any personal information you share with Southdown will be kept secure and used in line with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

 

It will only be looked at and used to help make sure we give you an effective service. This may include sharing the information across different parts of Southdown where this is necessary to ensure we give you the best possible support.

We may share the information with other support agencies if this would help you access other services or if we are concerned about you or someone else.

 

We understand that you may not want certain information about you shared with some people. This can make it difficult for us to give you all the support you need, so if you do not want information about you shared with another service or person, your worker will talk to you about how this might affect you.

 

We can share your information even if you have asked us not to if we are concerned about your safety or the safety of others, or where we are required to by law. We will try to discuss this with you before we share your information.

 

Remember you can discuss, withdraw, change or review your consent for Southdown to process your personal information at any time. You can also ask us to delete any information we hold about you. This will also be reviewed at your regular support plan review sessions with your support worker. If there are legal reasons why Southdown needs to retain your information we will talk to you about this to ensure that you are making informed decisions about how this might affect you. You can also ask to see the information Southdown holds about you.

 

If you are unhappy with the way Southdown uses your information please speak to us and we will do everything possible to address your concerns. If you are still unhappy you have the right to make a complaint to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO). More information about this is available on the ICO website at https://ico.org.uk/for-the-public/

 

More information about how Southdown stores and uses your data is available as a leaflet or on our website www.Southdown.org

 

Self Referrals

By clicking 'Submit' below, you confirm that you understand how Southdown will use and process your information as outlined above. By sending this referral you are consenting to being contacted by a Southdown Employee.

Professional / Third Party Referrals 
By clicking 'Submit' below, you confirm that the person being referred has read and understands the GDPR statement and consents to their information being shared with Southdowns' Wellbeing Service.