What is the Specialist Treatment and Recovery Service (STARS)?
Maximising people’s recovery from mental health through intensive evidence-based interventions
What we do
- We support adults in Hull and East Yorkshire who have complex or long-term mental health difficulties.
- We help people build everyday living skills, improve confidence, and work toward greater independence in the community.
- We provide tailored support based on individual needs, offering practical, functional, and psychological interventions for up to 18 months.
- Our service runs 7 days a week from 8am-8pm, helping people move forward in their recovery and maintain a stable, meaningful life in the community.
Who we are
In our service we have:
• Consultant Psychiatrist
• Clinical Psychologist
• Nurses
• Social Workers
• Occupational Therapists (OTs)
• Recovery Workers
• OT assistants
Our diverse and dedicated team enables us to provide a range of support and interventions. Alongside this, we work cohesively with other agencies to ensure continued care for example housing and employment services.
Our shared team values are to be:
- Open
- Trustworthy
- Honest
- Empathetic
- Respectful
What we offer
We tailor our approach to offer a holistic and recovery focused package of care to best meet the person’s individual needs. Below is an example of some of the interventions we provide:
- Psychological interventions: Enabling people to understand their feelings and behaviours whilst establish coping strategies. Providing psychoeducation and ways of coping or address symptoms of mental illness.
- Dialog+: Creating holistic goals that the person identifies and values, offering hope and optimism for the future.
- Creative therapies: Including art or physical based activity, offering people a variety of means of expressing themselves and their identity whilst developing skills.
- Assessment of living skills: Empowering people to develop self-care, homemaking, budgeting, leisure, productivity and social skills to maintain successful community living.
- Medication management: Monitoring and reviewing medication to ensure treatment continues to meet the person’s needs, whilst supporting self-administration skills.
- Connectedness and community living: Supporting the person to access community facilities, build links in the local community and develop socially inclusive relationships.
- Meaningful occupation and routine: Building effective, structured and meaningful daily routines, promoting physical and emotional well-being.
- Finance and housing support: Exploring individual finances and personal health budgets whilst ensuring community living environments continue to meet the needs of the person.
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