Services

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.

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.