- Overview
- Directions
- Contacting us and opening hours
- Car parking
- Accessibility Information
- Smoking and vaping information
- Professionals
Type
Adult Inpatient PICUInpatient care allows us to closely monitor our patients and ensure that they are receiving everything they need for their mental and physical wellbeing.
Shearwater Ward PICU (Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit) is a 7 bedded all female admission and assessment ward. Shearwater ward takes transfers from Sandpiper Ward. Shearwater PICU is staffed by a multidisciplinary team, which includes the provision of occupational therapy and psychological therapy. The ward is structured to support engagement and treatment, activity and wellbeing programme and is responsive in meeting the needs of the service users, with a focus on recovery.
Visit our Adult Inpatients Acute service overview page for more information on this service and referral details.
Address
Shearwater PICU, St Mary’s Hospital, Northampton, Northamptonshire, NN15 7PWMap
Contacting us and opening hours
Shearwater PICU
St Mary’s Hospital
Kettering
NN15 7PW
Telephone: 0300 777 0003
Mon-Sun: 24 hours
365 days
Car parking
There is 90 minute free onsite car parking at St Mary's Hospital. If you are going to be at St Mary's longer than 90 minutes please enter your registration details in the screen by the reception desks to extend your free parking time.
Please note this can be extremely limited at busy times.
There is also a Pay and Display car park situated on London Road (next to the swimming pool) which is a 5 minute walk away from the hospital. Please not this car park is not operated by NHFT.
Accessibility Information
Smoking and vaping information
We know that quitting smoking reduces your chances of heart disease and lung cancer, as well as improving your sense of taste, making your skin look younger and reducing stress.
Please remember that smoking or vaping is not allowed anywhere on any NHFT sites for outpatients, visitors or staff.
For adult and older adult inpatients only, smoking or vaping is permitted in specially designated areas (ward gardens). If you are an inpatient, please speak to your ward matron about smoking and vaping options. Tobacco dependency advisors are available to support you to quit smoking or vaping, and we also offer nicotine replacement therapy.
All other service users, visitors and staff must go offsite if they wish to smoke or vape.
Professionals
What matters to you when you are looking for out of area PICU beds;
- the standard of care?
- a single-sex environment?
- NHS recovery-focused care?
- the location?
- how quickly you will get a decision?
- continued involvement in your service users' care?
- the cost?
Here at NHFT we are committed to making a difference in the live of our services users, patients and carers.
Our single-sex PICUs are staffed by a multidisciplinary team, which includes the provision of Occupational Therapy and Psychological Therapy. The ward routine is structured to support engagement with the treatment, activity and wellbeing programme and is responsive in meeting the individual needs of service users, with a focus on recovery. We maintain close links with you and have a proactive approach to supporting discharge or transfer.
Based in centrally located Northamptonshire, we provide NHS care in a modern environment. As a Trust, we have officially been rated as GOOD by the CQC and OUTSTANDING for care.
Our beds are competitively priced and we aim to respond to a telephone request for an admission within an hour of receiving the call.
Shearwater PICU - female beds - 0300 777 0003
ShearwaterPICU@nhft.nhs.uk
Shearwater.picu@nhs.net
Marina PICU - male beds - 01604 685445