Supported Living & Specialist Care
Recovery-focused support, in the community
Support for adults living with serious mental illness — practical, consistent, and organised around what the person wants their life to look like.
Recovery means a life, not just fewer symptoms
For most people the measure of good mental health support is not a clinical score. It is whether they are sleeping, eating, seeing people, doing something they value, and staying out of hospital.
We work to those outcomes. That means help with the ordinary machinery of life — medication, appointments, benefits, food, routine — alongside relationships that are stable enough to notice when things are shifting.
It also means recognising early warning signs together and having a plan for them before a crisis, not during one.
Our approach in practice
Routine and structure
Sleep, meals, activity and rest — the foundations that make everything else more manageable.
Medication support
Prompting, ordering and recording, and honest conversation about side effects with the clinical team.
Staying well plans
Early warning signs, triggers and agreed responses, written with the person while they are well.
Managing crisis
Clear escalation to crisis teams and, where they exist, advance statements and crisis plans that get followed.
Practical life
Benefits, housing, debt, appointments — the stressors that most often destabilise someone.
Purpose and connection
Work, study, volunteering, peer groups and community — the things that make recovery hold.
Photo 25Tenant writing on a wellbeing plan with a support worker
Working with the professional network
We work closely with community mental health teams, care coordinators, crisis and home treatment teams, GPs and social workers. Where someone is subject to the Mental Health Act — including section 117 aftercare or a community treatment order — we make sure our support plan sits inside the statutory plan rather than alongside it.
Where someone is transitioning from a hospital setting, children's services or a residential placement, we plan that transition jointly and at their pace, with familiarisation visits before any move.
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The people doing the supporting
The best strategy in the world fails if the person delivering it doesn't understand why. Our support teams receive:
- INDUCTION LENGTH AND CONTENT
- OLIVER McGOWAN TRAINING — tier and coverage
- PBS TRAINING — level and provider
- Person-specific training before joining an individual's team
- SUPERVISION FREQUENCY
- CLINICAL OVERSIGHT ARRANGEMENT
NAMED CLINICAL LEAD, ROLE AND CREDENTIALS
Availability
See which of our services currently have places, and when each was last verified.
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Common questions
Do you support people leaving hospital?
Is section 117 aftercare funded?
Do your staff administer depot injections?
What if someone refuses support?
Do you support dual diagnosis?
How do referrals work?
Our other specialisms
For families and advocates
Thinking about supported living for someone you love? Start with a conversation — no forms, no commitment.
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Making a referral or exploring availability? Our referral pathway is published in full.
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