Services

**Due to Covid this service is temporarily closed**

Eileen Skellern 2 Ward (ES2) is a ward at the Maudsley Hospital. We provide inpatient care for men, aged 16-65, who have severe mental illness. We provide care for people who live in the London Borough of Southwark.

Acute illnesses start quickly and have distressing symptoms. We aim to ensure that people with acute mental illness who need 24 hour hospital care are safe and receive the assessment and treatment they need.

The Enhanced recovery Team assesses people, aged 18-65, who have severe, long-term mental illness and require support in a residential home or high support. We provide care for people living in the London Borough of Lewisham.

We work closely with housing providers, the patient and their carers to help people move into the most appropriate residential home for their needs.

We also do placement reviews of people who are funded by Lewisham and live out of borough.

This unique outpatient service provides assessment and evidence-based treatments for women who suffer from serious mental health conditions, including psychosis and severe depression, at times of hormonal change (for example, pre-menstrual, peri and post-menopausal).

A subgroup of women experience highly significant cognitive, mood and neurological disorders associated with fluctuation of sex hormone levels. These windows of vulnerability can occur pre-menstrually, post-natally, or around the time of menopause. Although the underlying cause of these problems may include a complex interaction between psychological and social factors, there is increasing evidence that biological factors are also important.

Our team includes international experts in gynaecological endocrinology, psychiatry, psychology and neurology. They provide evidence-based treatments to manage disorders like premenstrual syndrome (PMS) and premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD), peri and post-menopausal mood and memory disorders, cyclical epilepsy and women with neurodevelopmental disorders (for example, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)).

There is a growing body of research that supports the use of specific nutritional, hormonal and non-hormonal (for example, psychological) treatments in the management of these disorders. It is, however, difficult to access expert, unbiased help. We have developed our national service, which is specifically designed to meet this need.

Fitzmary 1 ward and Gresham 1 ward are Croydon's dedicated female only inpatient units. We offer a comprehensive assessment, care and treatment service. Our treatment programme is aligned with the Recovery model and our inpatient staff work closely with our community services to ensure our patients receive the best care both during and after discharge.

The Forensic Intensive Psychological Treatment Service (FIPTS) was developed in 2004 in partnership with the Ministry of Justice and Department of Health to treat and manage high risk offenders with severe personality disorder. In 2016 FIPTS community team became an Intensive Intervention and Risk Management Service (IIRMS) as part of the National Offender Personality Disorder strategy jointly funded by NHS England and NOMS (National Offender Management Service).

The FIPTS IIRMS Community Team is multi-disciplinary and adopts an evidence based psycho-social approach to working with service users. As well as helping our clients reduce or stop violent offending we also strive to help improve the quality of their relationships and assist them to achieve success in other important areas such as employment, education and community living. Our main focus is to promote independence and improve the quality of life of all our clients whilst reducing their risk of recidivism.

Referrals are accepted from secure services and probation offices within the appropriate catchment area.

Who is suitable to be referred to FIPTS?

• Male or female 18 years or older
• Must be subject to s37/41 of the Mental Health Act or subject to a probation order and screened in to the Offender Personality Disorder pathway
• Diagnosis or problematic traits of personality disorder
• Forensic history of violent and/or sexual offending
• A willingness to engage in psychological treatment and management
• Client presenting a high level of risk for future violent and/or sexual offending
• Functional link between personality disorder and risk for violent and/or sexual offending
• IQ of 70 or more
• Catchment areas of Lambeth,Southwark or Wandsworth

We provide low secure and medium secure forensic services. The purpose of our service is to ensure that mentally disordered offenders are assessed and treated effectively, in the least restrictive environment. We aim to manage the risk, reduce further offending and support recovery throughout the person’s stay.

Our services

• Brook ward
• Chaffinch ward
• Effra ward
• Forensic Intensive Psychological Treatment Service (FIPTS)
• Spring ward
• Thames ward
• Waddon ward
• Ward in the Community

Gresham Ward 1 is part of Bethlem Royal Hospital. We offer services for women, aged 16-65, who have acute mental illness and require 24 hour hospital care. Acute illnesses start quickly and have distressing symptoms.
 

Gresham Ward 2 is part of Bethlem Royal Hospital. We offer services for men, aged 18-65, who have acute mental illness and require 24 hour hospital care. Acute illnesses start quickly and have distressing symptoms.

We provide care for people who live in the London Borough of Croydon.

We offer psychiatric assessment, care and treatment in hospital, which helps to reduce the risk to self and others.

Our service brings together teams of health and social care professionals, including nurses, social workers and psychiatrists.

Hayworth Ward is in the Ladywell Unit at University Hospital Lewisham. We provide inpatient assessment, treatment and care for people aged over 65 with acute mental illness or under 65 for people who have dementia.

We care for older adults who are admitted to hospital in a crisis. We support them back into the community.

The Helping Families Team is an innovative community-based team that is working to improve outcomes for families in which parents are affected by mental health difficulties.

We aim to bridge the gaps between CAMHS, adult mental health, education, and children's services by providing:

• Early intervention and support in collaboration with alongside existing services
• Specialist parenting assessment and intervention to parents with mental health difficulties and complex psychosocial needs
• Specialist advice, consultation, and training

Our team uses a proactive outreach and therapeutic approach to positively engage families. The team primarily works with parents, however, we do also work directly with children and young people, where appropriate.

The Team's work uses a whole-family approach that:

• Improves the life chances of children, builds family resilience, and reduces risk
• Recognises the inter-related needs of children, parents, and the family as a whole
• Uses partnership-based and family focused approaches that share and enhance the knowledge and expertise of the family and professional network
• Tailors effective invention, care, and support to meet the needs of the family.

The Helping Families team is a programme developed by the Centre for Parent and Child Support (CPCS). We work in partnership with other programmes developed by CPCS:

• Empowering Parents Empowering Communities
• Family Partnership Model

We are a multi-professional team of HIV Mental Health Specialists.

Our aim is to increase the capacity for mainstream mental health & HIV services to support people living with HIV, who also have a significant mental health problem.

We provide advice, training and liaison work to a wide range of statutory and non-statutory mental and physical health care services in the Boroughs of Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham.

We embrace diversity and difference and endeavour to reduce the marginalisation of people living with HIV.

*Please note we do not care co-ordinate patients, and will be co-working clients alongside other professionals that are involved.

Services we provide:

1. Psychiatric Liaison, assessment and support for clients referred by the HIV Clinics and medical inpatient wards

2. Psychiatric Liaison, second opinions, support and advice, to SLaM's inpatient wards, mental health community teams & Addiction Services

3. Screening, cognitive assessment and onward referral for HIV related cognitive impairment

4. Psychiatric Liaison, assessment and support for patients with HIV related neurocognitive problems in specialist nursing homes

5. Assessment, formulation, short term work and onward referral for complex psychological problems

6. Liaison work with Primary Care and other HIV organisations

7. Health Promotion and Prevention, education and training

8. Pre and post test counselling for HIV testing

9. A clinical psychology service to children and young people who attend paediatric HIV clinics

The Croydon Home Treatment Team provides a short-term community-based treatment and care package aimed at facilitating recovery at home for people in crisis, who would otherwise require inpatient care.We provide care for people between 18-65 years old, who live in the London Borough of Croydon.

Our service brings together different health and social care staff, working closely with service users, their family/carers, GPs and other agencies, as required.

Home Treatment Team (Lewisham) is for people, aged 18-65, with severe mental illness, who would benefit from assessment, treatment and care at home as an alternative to in hospital. We provide care for people who live in the London Borough of Lewisham.

Our service brings together different health and social care professionals, including nurses, social workers psychiatrists and psychological therapists. We also work closely with patients, their carers, GPs, local day care centres and housing providers as required.

Our Home Treatment team (Southwark) provides a community based service to support people, aged 18-65, at home, rather than in hospital. Our service helps to avoid the stress, anxiety and upheaval that can happen with a hospital admission. We support people who live in the London Borough of Southwark.

Our team includes both health and social care staff.

We determine what clinical services people need to be referred to in Southwark in order to meet their mental health needs. For people who require hospital admission, we provide a rapid secondary assessment service, but we try to treat as many people as possible at home.