Arnold Lodge

We provide medium secure inpatient services for adults and older people with mental illness and/or personality disorder.

Our services include:

• Male Mental Illness Service - providing admission and assessment and continuing care and rehabilitation. Read more about the Male Mental Illness Service [pdf] 593KB
• Male Personality Disorder Services - providing a treatment programme for patients from prison, and high secure services. Read more about the Male Personality Disorder Service brochure.pdf 572KB 
• Women's Services - providing standard and enhanced medium secure services.(National WEMSS service). Read more about the Womens Service  [pdf] 531KB

Arnold Lodge forms part of the new care model ‘IMPACT’ (Improved Pathways and Community Teams), which has nine providers in the East Midlands region. The provider collaborative have made a commitment to an agreed set of values which emphasises hope, openness and honesty, a person centred approach, empowerment and opportunity, collaboration as well as safety and least restriction principles.

Arnold Lodge is a member of the Quality Network for Forensic Mental Health Service.  The latest aggregated report 2017 to 2019 ranks us as the 3rd highest scoring Medium Secure Unit in the country.  60 medium secure mental health services from across the UK and Ireland participated in the latest cycle 12.

We are proud that our workforce is well trained, with our mandatory training statistics 95 - 97% for 2019. We actively encourage our staff to develop through our comprehensive supervision structures that link to continued professional development (CPD). An example of our commitment to staff development includes supporting Health Care Assistants to complete their nurse training.

We continue to aspire to provide an inclusive ‘outstanding’ service by improving engagement with patients, carers and staff, based on least restrictive practice and via quality improvement initiatives.