Southwark Home Treatment Team is a crisis service that provides assessment and intensive treatment to clients in their own home as an alternative to psychiatric admission. It provides 24hr, 7 day a week, crisis assessment and intensive home treatment to patients with the aim of preventing in-patient admission where possible or if admission is required facilitating earlier discharge.
The post holder will provide community/home environment-based support to service users with mental health needs who are in crisis, to promote their recovery. It will also involve supporting the carers of service users receiving home treatment. The role will involve working with clients who have a wide range of mental health problems in a culturally diverse borough. The post holder will work within the multi-professional team in implementing, evaluating, and delivering high quality care and treatment to service users and carers.
Communications And Working Relationships
1. Multi-disciplinary Team - daily
2. Service Users and Carers - daily
3. Management Team - as required
4. Head of Profession – as required
5. Inpatient, Liaison and Community Teams - regularly
6. GP (General Practitioners) - regularly
7. Children and Families Services - as required
8. Other Agencies - As Required
South London and Maudsley (Slam) NHS Foundation Trust is part of King’s Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre (AHSC), which includes seven hospitals and over 150 community-based services. It is responsible for seeing two million patients each year, has 25,000 employees and 19,500 students, and a £2 billion annual turnover. It brings together the best of basic and translational research, clinical excellence, and world-class teaching to deliver advances in physical and mental healthcare (www.kingshealthpartners.org). Clinical Academic Groups are a way of organising our activities so that we are bringing together the people who can deliver the tripartite agenda – integrating clinical services with education, training and research.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Ehsan Kanan Email address: Ehsan.Kanan@slam.nhs.uk Telephone number: 02032283500 #J-18808-Ljbffr