Achieve Recovery Services

Complex Lifestyles

Complex Lifestyles provide an innovative and holistic approach to some of the most vulnerable individuals in the Bolton under Achieve Bolton, Salford, Trafford Treatment and Recovery Service.

The complex Lifestyle service will contribute to a number of national and local outcomes such as:

• Improving physical, emotional and mental health
• Improving self-care and living skills
• Reduction in risky health behaviours
• Improvement in managements of tenancy and accommodation.
• Reducing avoidable emergency admissions
• Reduce emergency re-admissions

The complex Lifestyle service will specifically target clients who are aged between 18 and 65 and are identified as having three or more of the following condition/risk behaviours:

• Alcohol or drug misuse
• Mental ill health ( including self-harm behaviours and risk of suicide)
• Offending or risk of offending ( or victim of crime)
• Poor unstable accommodation or homelessness.

The following agencies are identified as the initial referral route:

• Bolton NHS Foundation Trust A&E
• The RAID team
• Wards C3 Bolton Hospital ( Or acute Inpatient admissions)
• GPs/Primary Care
• Integrated Neighbourhood Teams
• Families First

The service will work with other organisations to support individuals with complex lifestyles to engage with services that will best meet their needs. Once a referral has been received, the team will make contact with the client within 2 working days. A person centred home visit or a mutually convenient session will then be arranged where an individual action plan will be collaboratively agreed between the practitioner and client. The practitioner will then work intensively with the client for a maximum of 12 weeks.

Achieve Bury will take a whole-person approach and help to address issues such as employment, education, housing, finances and relationships which can preventing or slow down recovery. 

We have teamed up with The Big Life Group which can support our service users to rebuild their lives and work towards an optimistic future.  Families and young people in particular can be especially affected by a family member living with a substance misuse problem, so we will also be working with Early Break, an organisation dedicated to supporting families and giving children and young people a voice, and work with them to improve family life.

GMMH has years of experience and expertise in the field of substance misuse – we have been rated as ‘Outstanding’ for our alcohol and drug recovery services by the Care Quality Commission and we are extremely proud to welcome Bury in to the Achieve family.

If you are worried about your own, or someone else’s substance misuse issues, you can contact us on 0161 271 0020 or achievebury@gmmh.nhs.uk.  GPs and other health professionals can also refer individuals to us via these contact details.

Achieve Bury Service Leaflet.pdf