Simmons House Adolescent Unit

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Who is the service for?

Simmons House Adolescent Unit is for young people between 13 and 18 years of age.

What does the service do?

Simmons House Adolescent Unit is an in-patient and day-patient psychiatric unit.

The unit has places for a maximum of 12 young people. Up to 10 can be resident in individual single bedrooms with no mixed sex accommodation. Up to 6 can be day-attenders. Young people who attend as day-patients receive the same range of treatments and education as those attending as residents.

The average length of admissions is between 6 and 9 months, but can be up to a year. The length of stay at Simmons House depends on the young person's needs.

Adolescents and their families or carers receive an individually planned and structured treatment package combining as appropriate:

  • psychiatric assessment and medication
  • family therapy (which is often video taped)
  • individual therapy
  • occupational therapy
  • group work and education.

All young people have to have a place to live during their time at Simmons House. The unit cannot be an adolescent’s home as adolescents should not have their home in hospital.

How are young people referred to the service?

Simmons House accepts initial enquiries from all professional agencies but requires the involvement of a consultant child and adolescent psychiatrist for the formal referral of adolescents.

Website

For further information please visit www.simmonshouse.org 

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Address:
Simmons House
St Luke's Hospital
Woodside Avenue
London N10 3HU

Tel: 020 3316 1753 (Admin Office)
020 3316 1771 (Nursing Office)
Fax: 020 8352 5360

How to get there:
By car – Woodside Avenue can be approached from Highgate/Archway, Muswell Hill, Barnet via the A1 or Enfield and Haringey via the North Circular Road and Colney Hatch Lane. There some disabled parking facilities.
By public transport – The nearest tube stations are Highgate or East Finchley on the Northern Line. The 134 and 43 buses stop close to the Unit.