Tatton Unit is a low secure service for adult males
We are committed to recovery, helping you to build on your existing strengths, and develop skills and coping strategies. These can help to improve your quality of life and reduce any disabling effects of your illness.
We provide a much slower pace of care than is provided within many other low secure services, to give you more opportunity to benefit from effective treatment.
This can be helpful if you have spent years, sometimes decades, in secure services. And if you have not been able to leave secure services because of the risks.
We can sometimes help if you were in medium secure services and require longer term care, or cannot be discharged due to your risk profile, and if you could be cared for safely within a less secure environment.
How we support you
Our aim is to work closely with you and your family to provide rehabilitation. This based on the stress-vulnerability model.
Our team is made up of lots of different professionals and we will encourage and empower you to reach your full potential and level of independence.
We recognise the difficulties that you face because of stigmas and judgements associated with mental illness, so will support you with getting back into the local community.
A core element of safely getting you back into the local community is called therapeutic risk-taking. The goal is stepping you out of secure services.
Take a tour
We've created virtual tour of Tatton Unit, using 360-degree photography. Take a look around the unit.
Visit our Tatton unit family and carers information page for more details about what to expect and visiting information.
We encourage visits from family, friends and those who matter most, and we try to be as flexible and welcoming as possible.
Please contact us to arrange a visit. If possible, please give 24 hours’ notice so we can ensure a family room is available and staff can support the visit.
Please avoid visits during protected mealtimes, which are 12 noon to 1pm and 5pm to 6pm.
As it is a secure unit we are not able to accommodate unplanned visits and we allow a maximum of three visitors at any one time.
Children are welcome but must be accompanied by an appropriate adult at all times. Please let us know when you are arranging the visit if any children will be joining you.
Tatton unit is now completely smokefree, meaning smoking isn't allowed anywhere in or out of the hospital.
If you’re a patient on a ward and usually smoke, we have a variety of options to support you whilst in hospital. Please speak to any member of the ward team to discuss how we can support you.