Gender: Mixed Beds: 63 Cygnet Hospital Bierley provides a range of low secure, specialist and psychiatric intensive care services for men and women, including a specialist personality disorder service for women. The hospital is set across four wards offering single-sex male and female specialist mental health services in low secure and locked environments. All our services are provided under the umbrella of a recovery orientated approach and are reviewed through the CPA framework. Cygnet Hospital Bierley has a true focus on the service user and the over-riding aim of providing the best quality treatment and care possible. Within the personality disorder service, service users are supported in Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) by trained clinical professionals including psychologists and nurses. The multi-disciplinary teams at the hospital work with service users to help people with acute, medium and long-term psychotic illnesses and challenging behaviour regain their independence and move from low secure facilities, to open acute and intensive community rehabilitation, including others within the Cygnet family of hospitals in northern England. The hospital itself is not far from the M62 and close to Bradford. As a purpose-built building, there are a range of therapeutic and social spaces including a gym, IT classroom, activities of daily living (ADL) kitchen, sensory room, outdoor enclosed courtyards and a multi purpose art room. All service users have their own en-suite bedroom. Services at Cygnet Hospital Bierley Bronte Ward – Female Low Secure Mental Health Denholme Ward – Female Psychiatric Intensive Care (PICU) Bowling Ward – Specialist Female Personality Disorder Service Shelley Ward – Male Low Secure Mental Health
5th October 2020 Cygnet Hospital Bierley wins Excellence in Dialectical Behaviour Therapy Award Cygnet Hospital Bierley’s Dialectical Behaviour Therapy programme has won the Association of Psychological Therapies (APT) 2020 Award for Excellence in DBT. It is the third time in four years that the team have won the award.
26th May 2020 Psychologist at Cygnet Hospital Bierley achieves accreditation with the Society for DBT Cygnet Hospital Bierley’s Head of Psychology, Dr Kelly Elsegood, has achieved accreditation with the Society for DBT as a DBT therapist, becoming one of 47 accredited DBT therapists in the UK.
2nd December 2019 Cygnet Hospital Bierley present at Society for Dialectical Behaviour Therapy Conference Cygnet Hospital Bierley’s psychology team recently presented a poster at the Society for Dialectical Behaviour Therapy conference in Newcastle. The presentation was on the hospital's Advanced DBT Skills course.
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