Services

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.

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.