Priory Hospital Cardiff

🌟 Celebrating Occupational Therapy Week 2024: "The Power of OT – Transforming Health and Social Care!" 🌟 This week, Priory Hospital Cardiff have been bringing Occupational Therapy to life with a “Future Me” display board, which highlights the journey of personal strengths, growth, and aspirations. 🎨🖼️💭 Here’s how our week unfolded! ⬇️⬇️⬇️ Day 1: Strengths Spotlight 💡🌈– service users and staff explored their unique qualities, starting the journey with positivity and self-reflection ✨. Day 2: Goal Garden 🌻🪴– we “planted” personal goals in our garden, representing our hopes and commitment to growth ✨. Day 3: Pathway to Progress 💎🪨– Through symbolic pebbles, service users and staff celebrated their achievements, adding stepping stones towards their future ✨. Day 4: Aspiration Leaves 🍁🌿– today, we completed the display by adding “Aspiration Leaves,” where service users and staff shared future goals, creating a canopy of dreams 💭🔮. Together, we’ve illustrated the transformative power of Occupational Therapy to support hope, resilience, and personal growth ✨🌈. Lastly, some gifts were given to our fantastic Occupational Therapist, Hannah, for her valued input and the difference she makes at Priory Hospital Cardiff. 🎁✨ Thank you to our wonderful team for making this week inspiring and memorable! 🌱💪 #OTWeek2024 #ThePowerofOT #OccupationalTherapy

100 Miles in October? COMPLETED IT ‼️✨🚶🏽 We are absolutely THRILLED to announce that Priory Hospital Cardiff have walked a total of 420.17 miles throughout October AND we have raised £180.00 for the National Autistic Society 💰🗣️❗️🎯 We achieved this by walking meetings 📆🏃, motivational-saurus 🦖 & ‘the tortoise and the hare’ visits, corridor conga 💃, walking lunch breaks 💪 and simply taking the stairs instead of the lift! 🤩 £180.00 means we have assisted in; 1. 36 autistic people feeling a sense of belonging. 👏✨ 2. 18 autistic people to overcome isolation. 👏✨ 3. Increased independence for 9 autistic people using the National Autistic Society’s Finding Employment module. 👏✨ We sincerely appreciate everyone who has shared our posts and contributed to this amazing cause. Thank you to our staff teams and service users who worked incredibly hard to QUADRUPLE our target! 🎯💪

Halloween at Priory Hospital Cardiff 🎃👻👏 Decorating, baking, trick or treating and fancy dress! What a fabulous week ✨.

Today, we had a visit from our motivational-saurus to assist us in hitting our 100 mile target! 🚶🏽🦖 Staff and service users have been walking in the grounds 🏡, the community 🛍️, using the gym 🏋️♂️ and even getting involved in a ‘corridor conga’ to get our steps up and raise awareness! 🎶🕺🏿 We have also started ‘walking meetings,’ which will assist in increased collaboration 👏, improved communication 🗣️, and a fantastic early morning energy burst! 💥 Help us raise awareness and hit our fundraising target! 💰🎖️ https://lnkd.in/emE_zAc3

On Wednesday, we attended the “Heroes of the West” Awards Ceremony with our Senior Staff Nurse, Diane. 🦸🏾♂️🎖️🤩 Diane was nominated for “Putting People First.” There are many examples of Diane’s caring and compassionate nature, but one that particularly stood out! Diane has supported a service user to engage in a community based activities, which has enabled them to feel included in society and experience joy to a level that has been absent from their life for a notable time. We are very proud to say Diane was made a finalist! 🤩 Priory Hospital Cardiff were also nominated and made a finalist for the Engagement Award! 🤩🎉 What a brilliant day, celebrating the fantastic, patient-centred care taking place across the West Region! 🎖️🎉

World Mental Health Day! 🗣️ Today, our entire team participated in raising awareness and promoted initiatives to support individuals facing/experiencing mental illness. The official theme for WMHD set annually by the World Federation for Mental Health is: “prioritising mental health in the workplace.” Focusing on workplace burnout this World Mental Health Day gives opportunities to cultivate a more productive, engaged, and fulfilled workforce and we certainly want to foster an environment where mental wellbeing is a priority for all! 💪🤩 We held a breakfast morning for our service users and staffing teams 🥓🥐🍳. We talked about all things mental health 🗣️, gave personalised gratitude cards & token gifts to every member of our team, provided ‘Self-Kindness Toolkits’ to all 📖, read inspirational quotes and played Chatterbox Games 🎲, which encouraged wellbeing skills such as mindfulness, grounding and self-compassion. Take a look at some photos of our wonderful (05:30am start!!) morning (and spot our MDT in the mental health awareness clothing!!). 👕

Day 3 of getting those steps in! 👏 Go Team PHC ✨🚶♂️ https://lnkd.in/eYvawYdn

🚶🏽❗️1 0 0 M I L E S I N O C T O B E R ❗️🚶🏿♀️ At Priory Hospital Cardiff, we know how important movement is in managing our physical and psychological wellbeing! 🏃♂️🏋️ Sometimes we all value some external motivation to help us get those steps up! That is why we have chosen to take part in the ‘Walk 100 Miles in October Challenge,’ to raise funds 💰 and awareness 🗣️for the National Autistic Society! 👏 Our whole site (service users and staff teams) will be supporting each other to increase 📈 our steps and meet our targets 🎯. As our Registered Forensic Psychologist, Cath & our Therapy Assistant, Abby demonstrate below, “slow and steady wins the race!” 🐢🐇 Please share our post, or donate if you can. Let’s raise awareness, funds and start GETTING THOSE STEPS IN! 🥳👏 https://lnkd.in/eYvawYdn

At Priory Hospital Cardiff, we pride ourselves in offering a Bespoke Treatment Package tailored to each individual we support. To enable us to do this, we provide bespoke training to ensure we teach and continuously upskill our staffing teams, whilst embedding Priory Policies and Values. Our training events allow our teams to learn and understand an individuals history, their functioning profile and support needs. This feeds into a holistic review of the proposed treatment plan and creates opportunities for team building. Take a look at some photos of a recent (4 day) training event held! We are so grateful for the compassion and dedication displayed by our team in providing recovery focused care. ✨

Two of our wonderful Healthcare Assistants have recently been successful in obtaining Registered Nurse posts at Priory Hospital Cardiff. You were fantastic Healthcare Assistants and we are sure you will be fabulous nurses! 🥳🥂🎉 Congratulations Sam & Ruth - we are so proud of you. 🏥👏