Mental Health Services Overview
Milestones is the specialist mental health division of Aspects and Milestones Trust. Since 1987 we have provided high quality, person centred care and housing for people with serious and enduring mental health needs. We support more than 250 people who live in Bristol, South Gloucestershire and North Somerset.
The service is delivered within a range of small residential care homes, nursing homes and supported housing schemes. Each scheme has its own unique character, but all of them share the common vision of delivering the highest quality support available to people with serious and enduring mental health needs.
Our service users value the long-term commitment offered by Milestones. Service user involvement is fundamental to our work. We focus on self-empowerment and promote group empowerment within each home. Milestones has a committed programme of user evaluation and user focus groups to help shape policies and standards of care.
Our mission is to enable people with mental health needs to lead fulfilling lives in the community. We seek to continually improve our service and to be responsive to the changing needs and wishes of the people we support.
Residential and Nursing Home Care
We offer 14 specialist homes that provide high-level support to more than 100 people with serious and enduring mental health needs. The homes are well established within local communities throughout Bristol, South Gloucestershire and North Somerset.
The staff teams embrace a person-centred approach. They involve residents in the day-to-day running of the homes and work with individuals to develop and pursue their own personal goals and choices.
Each home has its own character where residents can work to achieve their own unique potential, while benefiting from a safe and secure home environment.
We offer a wide range of support tailored to individuals, including:
- high level nursing home care for people with very complex support needs
- small homes that promote an independent domestic lifestyle
- homes that support younger residents to pursue education and employment and to move-on to more independent housing.
- homes that offer long-term support to older adults with mental and physical health needs
- women-only and men-only homes
- our homes are well situated to enable residents to make use of ordinary community facilities
Individual home brochures are available that describe the qualities and services of each home.
To find detailed information about our homes with vacancies please click here or contact Alan Altoft, Deputy Head of Milestones on 0117 970 9313 or e-mail AlanA@aspectsandmilestones.org.uk.
Elder Care and Dementia Services
Based at Somerset Lodge and Humphry Repton House (the Bristol Dementia Care Centre), these homes offer a full spectrum of services including: training and information, domiciliary care, day care, respite, and nursing home care. For more detailed information on each location click on the links above.
Nursing Home Care
- Our nursing homes, Humphry Repton House and Somerset Lodge are leaders in the field of dementia and elder care and are expanding services to meet growing need.
- The homes embrace a Person Centred approach to care that encourages involvement from family members and carers.
- The nursing homes are purpose built, single storey accommodations with pleasant and safe gardens.
- The service includes 24-hour registered nursing care. A highly skilled team provides a broad range of medical, emotional, and social support, and delivers activities such as music therapy, aromatherapy and gardening.
- A dedicated GP visits the homes weekly and we have strong links with local mental heath services.
To find detailed information about our homes with vacancies please click here or contact Milestones on 0117 970 9300.
Specialist Home Care
The Milestones Outreach Dementia Service, (MODS) enables people with dementia to remain at home for longer. Out staff work with service users and involve their carers in order to provide home care best suited to each person’s unique needs. For more information please click here.
Day Care Service
We provide a day care service up to 7 days a week for people with Dementia who are still living at home but require additional assistance away from the home during the day.
For more information on the Bristol Dementia Care Centre click here.
Mental Health Services Success Stories
Our Mission Statement is:
"To enable people with learning disabilities, mental health needs and physical disabilities to develop a fulfilling life in the community and to continually see to improve and be responsive to the changing needs and wishes of the people we support."
With this in mind we will continue to develop new services and innovative approaches to the work we do. The following stories illustrate the many and varied ways in which our specialist learning disability services are developing, and truly do embody, the values of independence, well being and choice.
Just click on the titles to read the stories below:
2007
Mandy
and Henry's Story
Daniel's
Independence
Wyvern
Lodge's Helping Hands Service
Video Story's
Martin's
Further Education
Keith's
Video Story
Personal
Recommendation of Services at the Dementia Care Centre
2006
Regained
Self Confidence
Getting
My Life Back Together
Denver
Takes Control
Keeping
Fit Campaign
Choice,
Motivation and Confidence
This page will be periodically updated for more past successes please see our Annual Review section and click on the pdf links to read.
Current Projects
Milestones regularly consults with colleagues, commissioners, staff and clients in order to develop new areas or schemes to help motivate, stimulate and encourage clients to regain self confidence, gain skills and become an active member of the community. Our current projects are:
Work INClusive
Creating opportunities for service user to develop vocational skills and enjoy the support of their peers. Based at Easton Community Centre, our emphasis is on helping people to secure and retain paid employment in their community. Users gain skills and experience by running a café - Cafe INClusive - and helping out at the Community Centre. Job coaches work with service users in mainstream employment, gradually withdrawing their involvement to allow individuals to work independently.
For more information on Work INClusive contact Ella Hydes on 0117 9552255