Glen Care is opening a new Residential Care Service with Nursing for men with learning disabilities, complex needs and impulsive behaviour at the Langford Centre in Bexhill-on-Sea.

Highwoods is a specialist service for men with learning disabilities who have a history of poor response to treatment, mental health problems, substance misuse, impulsive and aggressive behaviour and complex needs.

Highwoods will provide person-centred care for individuals stepping down from hospital whose needs cannot be met in standard residential or nursing care services. It will also accept men who may have been living in other community-based services but are experiencing deterioration in their condition. The service aims to prevent hospitalisation in these cases.

The new service will be clinically led with a specialist team that is designed to maximise the chances of a successful outcome for service users.

The multi-disciplinary team includes a consultant forensic psychiatrist, consultant psychiatrist, speech and language therapist, occupational therapist, consultant psychologist, specialist learning disability nurses and a social worker dedicated to effective advocacy, reintegration into the community and maximising family involvement for the residents.

Bradley Phillips, commercial director at Glen Care, said: “Glen Care has made a strategic decision to invest in community residential services to manage individuals with more challenging and complex behaviours.

“Highwoods is aimed at bridging the gap between general community care and specialised hospital care for individuals who have complex and multi-faceted needs. The intention is to either prevent the need for hospital treatment or to enable an early discharge.”