At Spring North, we provide a coordinated and consistent delivery model to ensure children and young people receive high-quality, supportive, and responsive care. Our dedicated therapeutic teams are based on the ward, offering support 2 days a week in Blackpool and 7 days a week in Blackburn (Mon–Fri 10am–2pm, Sat–Sun 10am–12 noon in Blackburn).
We deliver EHWB assessments with tailored support plans, evidence-based outcome tools, and 1-to-1 therapeutic interventions. Young people also benefit from planned and responsive ward sessions, delivered under full clinical governance and supported by enhanced DBS assurance.
Why we’re needed…
Nurses on the children’s wards in Blackburn and Blackpool provide medical care, emotional support, and compassion every day. But with so much to manage, there isn’t always time to offer the focused emotional support that every child and family might need in the moment.
Our role…
That’s where Spring North comes in. Working alongside our trusted delivery partners, Serenity Self Care & Wellbeing, we provide year-round therapeutic support on children’s mental health wards, commissioned by the Lancashire and South Cumbria ICB. Together, we are part of the ward community every day, offering a steady, reassuring presence for children and young people when life feels overwhelming.
How we help…
Our practitioners are present throughout the week, including weekends, to listen, guide, and respond. We conduct wellbeing assessments, offer one-to-one and group support, and use a variety of therapeutic approaches to help young people manage anxiety, low mood, self-harm, suicidal thoughts, and other challenges. Sometimes this involves structured work; other times, it simply means being there as a safe, trusted presence.
We also work closely with parents to build confidence and reduce the fear that can come with hospital admission. And we support ward staff by listening, sharing best practices, and offering perspectives that strengthen the essential care they provide.By reducing crises, easing the transition home, and helping young people cope and recover, we see real change: fewer readmissions, stronger family bonds, and better progress on the ward.
“Sometimes a young person just needs someone to sit with them in that moment,” says Jan, one of our practitioners, noted, “Poppy came in with no sense of what she wanted from life. Now she’s looking ahead. And she’s not the only one.”
