Season 2

Welcome to Season 2 of Changing Lives! We’re the award winning podcast by and for the staff at Cygnet Health Care. Our staff really do change people’s lives. We come from all walks of life and have a diverse range of skills, expertise, and knowledge.

Every single one of our staff helps to empower people to change their lives for the better. This podcast celebrates the great work they do and shares their stories and experiences to help colleagues celebrate and learn from each other. Thanks for listening. It really does mean a lot to us.

Episode 1 – Nurturing our community together

In this episode we visit Cygnet Brunel, a service providing neuropsychiatric and neurodegenerative rehabilitation for men with mental health difficulties and acquired brain injuries.

In the episode we speak with Hospital Manager, Stephanie Coxon and the staff team and two services users to hear about some of the coproduced initiatives they’ve been working on recently including the Friendly Bean Café and Cygnet’s first service user-led Quality Improvement project.

Episode 2 – Embracing diversity with Cygnet’s Multicultural Network

In this episode of the Changing Lives podcast, we visit Cygnet Hospital Taunton to chat with Hospital Manager, Josh, and Multicultural Network ambassador and Nurse, Edith to find out how they champion and celebrate the diversity of staff and service users within the hospital’s community.

Episode 3 – Making a positive change with art psychotherapy

In this episode of the Changing Lives podcast, we travelled to Cygnet Sherwood Lodge to learn more about art psychotherapy from our staff and service users.