| Service Type | Supported Living — Mixed Male and Female Service |
| Location | Brighton and Hove, East Sussex |
| Client Group | Adults (men and women) with mental health conditions, autism spectrum conditions, and learning disabilities |
| Support Approach | Positive Behaviour Support (PBS) | Trauma-Informed Practice | Person-Centred Care |
| Registered Provision | CQC Registered — Unicare Complex Care Specialist Ltd |
Dedicated sensory space for regulation and wellbeing
Secure garden and outdoor space
Specialist support for both men and women
Full PBS capability including complex challenging behaviour
Trauma-aware, relational support model
Access to seafront, Downs, parks and specialist services
Wilbury Crescent is one of Unicare’s flagship supported living services in Brighton and Hove, providing specialist support to a mixed community of adults — both men and women — with mental health conditions, autism spectrum conditions, and learning disabilities. The service brings together Unicare’s full depth of clinical expertise, specialist staffing, and person-centred practice within a vibrant Brighton and Hove setting that is rich with community opportunity and specialist health and social care infrastructure.
As a mixed service, Wilbury Crescent is designed to support adults whose presentations span a wide range of complexity — from individuals in early supported living transitions through to those with long-standing and highly complex needs who require intensive, expert support to live safely and well in the community. The service has developed particular expertise in supporting adults at the intersection of autism, learning disability, and mental health — a combination that requires both breadth of clinical knowledge and the ability to hold complexity with confidence and clarity.
Wilbury Crescent operates at the full depth of Unicare’s PBS capability. Every resident has a comprehensive Behaviour Support Plan developed through a thorough functional assessment process, drawing on the direct expertise of Unicare’s PBS Specialist as well as the knowledge of the resident’s support team, family, and any relevant health professionals. Plans are regularly reviewed and actively updated as the resident’s situation and needs evolve.
The service has developed particular strength in supporting residents whose challenging behaviour has previously led to placement breakdown or restrictive responses in other services. The Wilbury Crescent PBS model is explicitly focused on reducing restrictive interventions over time — building the proactive, relational, and environmental strategies that make reactive intervention increasingly unnecessary. Trauma-informed practice provides the foundation for this work, ensuring that behaviour is understood in context rather than responded to in isolation.
The Wilbury Crescent team is a mixed staff team — both male and female workers — with a wide range of specialist skills including PBS, mental health, autism, learning disability, clinical care, and trauma-informed support. The team includes senior workers with specific expertise in complex and challenging presentations, and benefits from direct, regular input from Unicare’s PBS Specialist, Chukwuma.
The service is led by an experienced Service Manager and House Manager, with close oversight from Unicare’s Registered Manager, Rashied Shote. The Wilbury Crescent management team brings particular depth of experience in complex case management, multi-agency working, and the oversight of high-acuity supported living services. The staffing model is built around consistency — residents have named key workers and a stable core team, because relationship continuity is understood as a clinical necessity for this population.
Wilbury Crescent offers a well-resourced and thoughtfully designed living environment that combines the warmth and individuality of a genuine home with the environmental modifications and specialist resources required for a complex supported living service. The service includes a sensory room — an important resource for residents with autism and sensory processing differences — as well as access to outdoor garden space and communal areas designed to accommodate both social engagement and quiet personal retreat.
The Brighton and Hove location is a distinctive asset for this service. Brighton offers an exceptionally rich ecosystem of specialist mental health, autism, and learning disability services, community resources, cultural opportunities, and natural environment — including the seafront, the Downs, and extensive parks — all of which are actively utilised as part of residents’ community integration and wellbeing plans.
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