Amber Lodge

Amber Lodge at the Becton Centre is a day unit where we offer mental health support for young people aged 5 to 11. 

We are a regional unit and children are referred to us from community CAMHS teams in Sheffield, Barnsley, Rotherham and North Derbyshire.

It is important to us that children and families feel comfortable talking to us, and that we work together to help children with serious and complex mental health and emotional difficulties.

Conditions

We see patients who have a variety of conditions including:

• neurodevelopmental disorders
• trauma and attachment disorders
• learning issues and mild intellectual disabilities
• mood disorders
• disordered eating
• obsessive compulsive disorder
• psychosis
• self-harm

Services

• Comprehensive mental health assessment and treatment
• Psychological assessment and treatment
• Care or treatment planning, including working with a young person’s family and carers
• Access to physical health assessment and appropriate treatment and advice with links to and the support of Sheffield Children’s Hospital
• Risk assessment and risk management
• Activity programme, including social and recreational activities, as well as therapeutic groups
• Education provided on site by professional teaching staff from the Becton School (view the Becton School Ofsted inspection report)
• Family therapy or family work and psycho educational support for families
• Occupational therapy 
• Music psychotherapy
• Psychotherapy – assessment and treatment
• Medication review and prescribing

Find out more about referring to us.

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Getting to know you

After a referral is accepted we spend about six weeks getting to know the family and a child and identifying the goals of our work and what we will do. This is called ‘Suitability Assessment ’.

Often our plan includes assessment of complex developmental and psychosocial problems, individual work with a child and work with their family to help them understand and manage their difficulties. The plan also includes liaison with education and other services.

Working with families

Children attend our day unit and we can work quite intensively with families and try to negotiate appointments to suit them. Our multidisciplinary team has the flexibility to meet parents at home, to visit children in their homes and schools and to provide therapies at Amber Lodge. 

Visiting Amber Lodge

Children attend our day unit one day a week and we arrange transport for the journey to and from Amber Lodge. During their stay on the day unit we engage the children in a range of therapies and group work. We also have an excellent educational service on site.

There are lots of fun facilities and play spaces at Amber Lodge and children usually love it here.

Review meetings

We hold regular reviews so that everyone knows how we are meeting our goals and can agree on the next steps. Typically our involvement with a child and family is for between six and nine months. After our spell of care, we will agree what work the community teams can provide to follow up our work.

Information leaflets about Amber Lodge, for referrers, parents and children are available.