Services

The Paediatric Hospital Liaison Team is part of Lewisham Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS). Our team is for children and young people, up to the age of 18, who live in the London Borough of Lewisham.

We co-ordinate psychological assessments for children and young people being cared for at University Hospital Lewisham. Our team is here to help manage the emotional impact of physical illness on children, young people and families, and improve their ability to manage the illness and its effects.

Weprovide mental health input for children and young people children with acute illnesses, and those with chronic and life-limiting conditions. This includes conditions such as cystic fibrosis, asthma, and diabetes. This service is for children and young people who have had severe and complex problems for some time.

We have close links with paediatric staff in the hospital, child development teams, and other CAMHS teams.

Our team members
Our team is made up of people from different backgrounds working together to provide multi-disciplinary care. This may include child and adolescent psychiatrists, social workers, clinical psychologists, community psychiatric nurses, child psychotherapists, occupational therapists, as well as art, music and drama therapists.

The Lewisham Child and Adolescent Schools Serviceis part of Lewisham Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS). We are a tier 2 CAMHS team that provides assessment, treatment and care for children and young people, from 5 to 18 years old, who have mental health problems.

Our team works mainly in Lewisham schools alongside education professionals; however, if necessary, we can offer home visits.

This service is for children who do not need to receive treatment from a full team of health and social care professionals, and who can be treated by a single practitioner.

This service is available to children who have a Lewisham GP. Referrals are accepted from the Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) panel, New Woodlands School, the Outreach and Inclusion Service, and a small number of targeted schools.

Lewisham Community Forensic Team based at Kirkdale Resource Centre, who care for people who have a permanent address in the London Borough of Lewisham and provide community-based assessment, treatment and care for people, aged 18-65.

A Forensic community team provide care for people with offending histories who, with appropriate care and treatment, pose a low risk to the public. They may also be subject to Home Office restrictions, Probation Orders or have judicial proceedings outstanding.

The team is made up of psychiatrists, community psychiatric nurses, social workers Psychologists and occupational therapists.

Who work closely with the police, the public protection unit and the local Multi-Agency Public Protection Arrangement (MAPPA) team to support people in the community

Lewisham Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) Service is part of the wider SLaM DBT Service and is attached to Lewisham CMHTs. DBT is an evidence-based therapy for people whose difficulties with regulating emotions creates significant problems in their lives, and who have a suspected or confirmed diagnosis of Emotionally Unstable Personality Disorder (EUPD)/Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD).

In DBT, clients are taught skilful ways of managing emotional distress, solving problematic situations and improving their relationships. The DBT programme is delivered in a validating therapeutic environment which focuses on clients' strengths and sensitivities and enables them to develop effective strategies to build a 'life worth living'.

Clients have a DBT assessment and, if suitable, they are offered DBT Ôpre-treatment'. This prepares clients for the full DBT programme, which includes weekly individual and group DBT sessions and DBT phone coaching, and all DBT therapists attend DBT Consult. Clients work towards reducing and stopping all life-threatening behaviours, reducing therapy-interfering and quality of life-interfering behaviours, reducing trauma symptoms, increasing behavioural skills and achieving Ôlife worth living' goals.

Mental health professionals can make referrals by contacting a member of the Lewisham DBT Service to discuss cases in the first instance for screening, and then emailing the therapist they contacted with a completed Lewisham DBT Service referral form attached. NB: Currently, clients need to be under the care of a mental health team in Lewisham to access the Lewisham DBT Service.

The Early Intervention Service provides care for people 18-65 who live in the London Borough of Lewisham.

We provide support to individuals who first present with symptoms of Psychosis, and help prevent them reaching a crisis point.

We provide a National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE)-concordant package of care to clients under the service. This includes prompt assessment, treatment and advice to improve long-term recovery.

We support individuals for up to 3 years.

The Lewisham MHLD service provides community-based psychiatric and psychological assessment, advice and treatment for people, aged over 18, who live in the London Borough of Lewisham. We care for adults with mental health problems and learning disabilities who may have emotional, behavioural, and social, communication or physical difficulties.

We provide care for people with mental health problems and complex needs including behaviours that challenge.

We are a multi professional team including psychologists, behavioural support specialists, nurses and psychiatrists. We work with other health and social care teams as part of the Mental Health Learning Disability Service (MHLD) Neurodevelopment Division.

We provide mental health assessments, therapy and advice on services and treatment options to help people with learning disabilities maintain their health and independence.

How to make a referral to our service

You can send referrals to us by email or post.

• Download our referral form
• Check our eligibility criteria: MHLD referral criteria

Once you've completed the form, send it to us by email at: referralsmhld@slam.nhs.uk. Alternatively, you can send it to us by post:

Team Leader
1st Floor Old Town Hall
c/o Laurence House
London
SE6 4RU

An integral part of the Mental Health-Learning Disabilities services provided by the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust is the Estia Centre. The Estia Centre is a training, research and development resource that specialises in the mental health needs of adults with learning disabilities. The Estia Centre aims to support the development of a competent workforce, from support staff to experienced managers and from a variety of services. We hope to achieve this by offering a high quality portfolio of training opportunities, including workshops, conferences, training publications, journals and good practice guidance. The Centre is also part of the Institute of Psychiatry, where we aim to improve the care of adults with learning disabilities and mental health needs through our research initiatives that develop evidence-based practice

Contact:

Estia Centre
Clinical Treatment Centre (CTC)
Maudsley Hospital
Denmark Hill
London SE5 8AS

Tel: 020 3228 9742
Fax: 020 3228 9749

Email: info@estiacentre.org
Web: www.estiacentre.org

We provide psychiatric assessment and review for patients aged 65 and over (not active to working age mental health care services) who have been admitted to Lewisham Hospital. We work jointly with our general liaison psychiatry colleagues providing mental health input to older patients presenting to Emergency Department.

The Lewisham Primary Care Mental Health Team is a service providing care and treatment for service users with severe or complex mental health difficulties. This includes, but is not limited to psychotic illnesses, mood and personality disorders, and other co-morbid disorders.

We provide a broad range of medical, psychological, and social treatments and intervention and work closely with acute and crisis services and mental health services in primary care to ensure that service users receive the right care at the right time. Our service is provided in alliance with Bromley Lewisham and Greenwich MIND, Lewisham Adult Social Care, One Health Lewisham, and Lewisham Clinical Commissioning Group.

We are a multidisciplinary service with a range of professionals, including social workers, nurses, doctors, psychologists, occupational therapists, and specialist workers, providing employment support, benefits advice, and social inclusion.

The Lewisham Psychiatric Liaison team is for people aged 18-65. The service provides a comprehensive assessment and liaison service to people who are experiencing mental health difficulties who attend Lewisham University Hospital's (UHL) emergency department and who are admitted to the Clinical Decision Unit (CDU).

It provide assessment and advice on treatment of people who have been admitted to the medical, surgical and obstetric wards at UHL who are experiencing mental health difficulties.

The liaison team also provide assessments to people who present with co-morbid presentations of either substance misuse or physical issues, and mental health difficulties in the emergency department and wards with severe mental illness.

We offer crisis and peer support groups for adults in Lewisham with emotional and relationship difficulties.

What is SUN?

Lewisham Service User Network (SUN) is a community-based support group for adults experiencing difficulties with complex emotional needs. SUN aims to empower people to problem solve their current struggles – emotional, relational, social, and practical.

Who can join SUN?

You can refer yourself to Lewisham SUN Project if you are an adult who lives in Lewisham, or if you are registered with a Lewisham GP. We welcome people from all sorts of backgrounds to learn from each other’s experiences.

How the group works

Each group runs for two-and-a-half hours with breaks. We offer a mixture of online and in-person groups. You can attend Lewisham SUN groups as often or as little as you wish. SUN groups offer peer support. Members both offer and receive support at different times. Two health professionals facilitate the group. All of the support provided by Lewisham SUN Project happens within the groups themselves, in a confidential and safe space. New members are helped to complete a Crisis and Support Plan (CASP). A CASP sets out the steps you take to cope with stress and any challenges in life, so that the group knows how best to support you in times of crisis.
 

The Lewisham Young People's Service (LYPS)is part of Lewisham Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS). We provide assessment and treatment for children and young people, up to the age of 18, registered with a GP in Lewisham.

Our service is for children and young people who have ongoing severe and complex problems for some time that significantly affect their daily life.

We also offer an early intervention service to young people who are experiencing psychosis. A person with a psychotic illness will experience a different view of reality compared to how others see it. This can affect how they think, feel, things they hear and things they see Ð often with symptoms of hallucinations and delusions.

Our team members

Our team is made up of a number of people from different backgrounds. This may include child and adolescent psychiatrists, social workers, clinical psychologists, community psychiatric nurses, child psychotherapists, occupational therapists, as well as art, music and drama therapists.