Services

Home Treatment (Croydon) care for people aged 65 and over with severe mental illness who would benefit from assessment and treatment at home as an alternative to hospital.

Our aim is to provide short-term treatment for people who are having a mental health crisis. Wherever possible, we avoid the need for hospital admission.

Our service brings together different health care professionals, including nursing, occupational therapy and psychiatry. We work closely with patients, carers and professionals involved in their care.

**The service is temporarily moved with Greenvale due to Covid**

Home Treatment (Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham) care for people aged 65 and over with severe mental illness who would benefit from assessment and treatment at home as an alternative to hospital.

Our aim is to provide short-term treatment for people who are having a mental health crisis. Wherever possible, we avoid the need for hospital admission.

Our service brings together different health care professionals, including nursing, occupational therapy and psychiatry. We work closely with patients, carers and professionals involved in their care.

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

We provide short-term treatment for people who are having a mental health crisis. Wherever possible, we avoid the need for hospital admission.

Our service brings together different professional health and social care professionals, including nurses, social workers and psychiatrists. We also work closely with the patient, their carers, GP, local day care centre and housing provider as required.

Homeless Outreach (START) is a small multi-disciplinary assessment team for street homeless people in Lambeth, Southwark and Croydon. Our role is to engage and assess homeless people with severe mental health problems and to refer them on to local mainstream services.

We provide short-term care coordination. We do not have access to our own accommodation.

Imagining Futures is a programme combining mental wellness strategies and arts practice for young women living in Lambeth or Southwark.

Imagining Futures uses drama, creative writing, music, photography and film combined with dialectical behaviour therapy and mindfulness to support mental wellness of young women aged 14 to 18 years old.

The project supports young women whose immediate and longer-term mental health may be affected by issues including self-harm, social exclusion, exploitation, vulnerability, deprivation and gang association.

This project is aimed at young women who live in Southwark or Lambeth and have a history of self-harm or are at risk of self-harm.

Our weekly workshops will:

• Use creative writing, photography and drama with DBT and mindfulness
• Aim to build self-esteem, empathy and confidence
• Be a caring, supportive and safe environment
• Develop group skills and social behaviour

Imagining Futures is a project developed by the Adolescent At-Risk and Forensic Service (AAFS), and is part of national and specialist CAMHS at the Maudsley Hospital.

This is a specialist service, available to people from across the UK.

GPs, consultants, health professionals, referrers and commissioners can receive comprehensive information about this national service by contacting the service directly.

Overview
Our clinic provides injectable opiate treatment for people with a severe heroin addiction, where previous optimised first line drug treatment, such as oral methadone maintenance, has been shown to be insufficient.

Patients are prescribed injectable heroin (diamorphine) or methadone, which is administered at the clinic under supervision and supplementary oral medication can be provided between injecting sessions to prevent opiate withdrawal and also if it is desirable or necessary for them not attend a session. The clinic is open every day and all injectable doses are supervised, so there is no potential for abuse or transference into the community. People typically attend the clinic up to twice daily, seven days a week.

In addition to this specialised pharmacotherapy intervention, our nurses, doctors and recovery support workers work alongside existing local providers to compliment and bolster existing recovery focussed care plans that address the underlying causes of addiction, and the related health issues an individual may be experiencing.

Where appropriate skills and expertise exist we support local community teams to develop their own injectable opiate treatment services, allowing the patient to return to their local service provider at the earliest opportunity, once sufficient progress and stability of their recovery has been achieved.

For more information about SLaM's national and specialist services see: www.national.slam.nhs.uk

The Integrated Community Mental Health Team is a service providingcare and treatment for service users with severe mental health difficulties, including but not limited to psychotic illnesses, mood and personality disorders, and other co-morbid disorders.

We are a multi-disciplinary service with range of professionals including social workers, nurses, doctors, psychologist occupational therapists and specialist workers providing employment support, benefits advice and social inclusion. We provides a broad range of medical, psychological and social treatments and interventions.

We works close with acute and crisis service, and mental health services in primary care to ensure that service uses receive the right care at the right time.

The service is provided in alliance with Bromley Lewisham and Greenwich MIND, Lewisham Adult Social Care, One Health Lewisham and Lewisham Clinical Commissioning Group. This is currently a pilot service which will evaluate mental health interventions in secondary care with a view to extending this model of service provision across Lewisham.

This is a specialist psychological therapy service (secondary care) that provides assessment, care and treatment for people aged 18-65 who have a severe mental illness and live in the London borough of Southwark. Referrals are acccepted by mental health professionals from IAPT and CMHT's.

Our service provides a range of individual and group psychological therapies within six areas:

• Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT)
• Family and couple therapy
• Perinatal psychotherapy
• Psychodynamic psychotherapy: individual and group
• Cognitive analytic therapy (CAT)
• Trauma focused therapy

For more information about SLaM's national and specialist services see: www.national.slam.nhs.uk

The Jim Birley Unit (JBU) is an 19-bed ward at the Maudsley Hospital. Our aim is to ensure that women with severe mental illness who need 24 hour hospital care are safe and receive the assessment and treatment they need.

John Dickson Ward is an adult inpatient service. We provide care and treatment for men, aged 16-65, with severe mental illnesses who need 24 hour hospital care.

We provide care for residents of the London Borough of Southwark.

Our aim is to ensure that people with acute mental illness are safe and receive the assessment and treatment they need in the least restrictive environment. Acute illnesses start quickly and have distressing symptoms.

The Lambeth Mental Health Support in Schools Team (MHST) offers early intervention support to children and young people who are experiencing mild to moderate mental health issues between the ages of 5 to 18 years old.

We can help with issues such as exam stress, behaviours that challenge, low mood, anxiety, and friendship issues. We can also help those with more severe needs to access the right support.

Our team of Education Mental Health Practitioners and senior clinicians offer guided self-help over several sessions for anxiety, low-mood, or behaviours that challenge. This can be face to face, telephone or online.

The Lambeth Rapids Team is part of Lambeth Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS). We provide support for children and young people who are experiencing a mental health crisis, or those with severe and complex mental health needs who may require more intensive support.

Our aim is to try to keep young people out of hospital and ensure that their care and treatment is delivered within the community.

Where we work

Most appointments with us will take place in our clinic at 35 Black Prince Road in Kennington. We can also carry our home visits, school visits, and also attend hospital discharge meetings if appropriate.

The River Team is part of Lambeth Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS). We provide assessment, treatment and care for young people, aged 0-18, who have moderate to severe mental health difficulties which impact on their daily lives.

Our team also provide specialist support for children and young people who have moderate to severe learning difficulties. This includes autistic spectrum disorder (ASD), attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and Tourette Syndrome (TS).

We are an Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) service. We offer individual and family interventions, psychological therapies including talking therapies, creative therapies and medication management in line with NICE guidelines.

We are based at two main sites in the community; 35 Black Prince Road, the Mary Sheridan Centre.

Our team members come from a variety of clinical backgrounds that can include child and adolescent psychiatrists, clinical psychologists, community psychiatric nurses, child psychotherapists, occupational therapists, as well as creative therapists.

The River Team is part of Lambeth Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS). We provide assessment, treatment and care for young people, aged 0-18, who have mild to moderate mental health difficulties, behavioural difficulties, or those experiencing issues for the first time.

We are an Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) service. We offer individual and family interventions, psychological therapies including talking therapies, creative therapies and medication management in line with NICE guidelines.

We offer time limited interventions that includes, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Personalised Individual Parent Training (PIPT), consultation work with families and the social care network, and identification of more serious mental health difficulties that might require more intensive intervention.

Our team is based at William Geoffrey House in Kennington and is part of the Early Help CAMHS offer which also includes the DISCOVER and CUES teams.