Adults of Working Age
Acute Inpatient Services
This service primarily provides treatment and care in a safe and therapeutic setting for service users between 18-65 whose circumstances or acute care needs/risk assessments are such that they cannot at the time be treated and supported appropriately at home or in an alternative, less restrictive residential setting. People who receive care and treatment from other care groups are also periodically admitted. I Reasons for admission includes those with a Serious Mental Illness (SMI) who are presenting with a crisis due to an acute relapse in their mental state, individuals who present with a potential SMI and require assessment and or treatment and known service users with a personality disorder where it is likely that short term treatment in hospital may have a beneficial effect. Referral, admission and discharge are through the Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment service (CRHT). Service users will receive care and treatment via a multi professional team including Nurses, Therapy staff and Psychiatrists who offer a range of interventions. Interventions are prioritised to ensure service user safety and in doing so will be able to access individual and group interventions. Whilst admitted there will also be a range of interventions provide to promote physical health issues such as smoking cessation. Full details can be found at www.wottonlawnhospital.info or by contacting Wotton Lawn Hospital on 01452 891500.
Psychiatric Intensive Care Inpatient Service (PICU)
This service provides intensive inpatient care to patients who are in an acute phase of a serious mental disorder, whose safe, therapeutic management and treatment is not possible on an open acute ward. The environment, intensive intervention and the skill base of the team have a good potential for meeting treatment goals. PICU intensive nursing strategies include behavioural techniques, psychotherapeutic interventions and environmental adaptation. Ward based staff work with the service users own community teams ensuring increased continuity of care. A wide range of interventions are also provided by other members of the healthcare team ensuring service users can be engaged either individually or in group settings.
Low Secure Rehabilitation Inpatient Service
This inpatient service provides expert, supportive and individualised care for males whose psychiatric condition requires treatment in conditions of security. The Montpellier Unit staff and patient will endeavour to respect each others views and work together. By communicating effectively, both as a staff group and with patients, we wish to actively seek and value the contribution of all staff and patients by listening to what everyone has to say. By creating a safe and supportive environment, both staff and patients can work in partnership and focus their activities on discharging patients. Full details can be found at www.montpellier.glos.nhs.uk
Specialist Recovery Inpatient Service
A comprehensive inpatient rehabilitation and recovery service for people with severe and enduring mental illness who have complex needs with a main diagnosis of psychosis. It facilitates service users to achieve their optimum level of functioning to enable them to establish a sustainable, independent quality of life within the community. It includes outreach support in helping patients to achieve this following discharge, which is normally within 6 months to 2 years after admission. People between 18-65 with severe and enduring mental illness who have complex needs with a main diagnosis of psychosis and are ready and motivated to engage and commit in an active rehabilitating and recovering programme.
Primary Care Assessment & Treatment Service (PCAT)
This service is provided to adults with mental health problems and consists of assessment, triage, short-term treatment and/or therapy and advice/support/training to primary care colleagues (GPs and nursing staff).
Cheltenham, Tewkesbury and North Cotswolds PCAT Team
Brownhill Centre
Swindon Road
Cheltenham
Glos GL51 9EZ
01242 275070
Gloucester & Forest PCAT Team
18 Denmark Road
Gloucester GL1 3HZ
01452 891451
Stroud and Cirencester PCAT Team
Park House Resource Centre
Stroud
01453 761521
Assertive Community Treatment Service (ACT)
This service develops supportive and therapeutic relationships with service users with severe and enduring mental illness who have complex needs and are difficult to engage in generic services. It provides an intensive multidisciplinary package of care for people to facilitate social inclusion and recovery, and to provide support to carers. It aims to help service users achieve the best quality of life, acknowledging the problems imposed by their illness, and to support them within the community through home-based assessment and treatment.
Crisis Resolution & Home Treatment Service (CRHT)
This service provides short-term intensive home/community-based interventions during the acute phase of illness for those individuals who are at immediate risk of psychiatric hospitalisation or, due to acute relapse, are at risk of losing their independence in the community. It is the single point of entry for all hospital admissions and actively facilitates early discharge, including the provision of intensive care. It acts as the community arm of in-patient services, ensuring a close liaison between teams, providing alternatives to inpatient hospital admission utilising respite care facilities and promoting social inclusion and recovery using community resources. Existing care co-ordinators are expected to remain in touch with the service user.
Gloucestershire Recovery In Psychosis (GRIP)
The GRIP Team is a Countywide Early Intervention in Psychosis Service provided by 2gether NHS Foundation Trust, to work with people aged 14-35 years old who have or are at risk of developing a first episode of psychosis.
Visit the GRIP website: www.gripinitiative.org.uk
Recovery Service
This service provides a high quality community-based mental health service for people of working age with a strong focus on the promotion of recovery and social inclusion, including educational, recreational, vocational and employment foci. It provides a longer term engagement for people with Serious Mental Illness (SMI) within a target 2 year maximum period, with an emphasis on shared care of service users with Primary Care and negotiated discharge with recommendations for on-going management in Primary Care
Eating Disorders Specialist Service
This service is provided during weekdays for children, adolescents and adults with a primary need for mental health services. The service is primarily assessment and treatment and, to a lesser extent, aftercare support and review. Treatment periods vary with the aim of prompt discharge following treatment. It is offered primarily in community settings. The service is also the point at which inpatient or residential placement is commissioned by arrangement with the PCT.
Eating Disorders Team
Gloucestershire Partnership NHS Trust
Fieldview
West Lodge Drive
Coney Hill
Gloucester
GL4 7XY
Tel. 01452 563035
Fax.01452 563031
Prison Mental Health In-reach Service
This service is provided for adult prisoners and ensures that those with mental health needs receive treatment for them whilst in prison. The service consists of comprehensive assessment and treatment, liaison with other agencies and specialist advice/support/training to prison and health staff thereby ensuring continuity of care. It works to reduce the stigma associated with mental illness in prison and assist in the reduction in levels of self-harm and incidence or suicide within the prison through working in partnership with safer custody officer and prison staff.
Criminal Justice Liaison Service
The service is provided mainly to adults of working age (18 – 65) who are suspected of having a mental illness who are within the criminal justice system. It is available from the point of arrest to post sentencing. It provides a triage and screening service for the courts and police and some follow up for service users referred from the probation service. It aims to ensure that people with mental health problems are diverted from the criminal justice system when it is appropriate and to support them through the criminal justice system when it isn’t. The service provides psychiatric reports to both the magistrates and crown courts when a disposal under part 3 of the Mental health Act is not being considered and assists in obtaining psychiatric reports for those who are being considered under Part 3 of the Mental Health Act. In addition the service provides background information concerning risk or previous convictions etc. for clients within secondary care services where requested to do so and when appropriate to do so. It also provides advice to the police for people who have not broken the law but pose problems in the community as well as advice to the courts on the implementation of the Mental Health Act 1983 and advice to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS).
Psychological Therapies Service
This service is provided during weekdays to adults of working age with mental health problems and consists of assessment, psychological therapy (PT) provision, supervision of staff with PT skills, consultancy with colleagues in mental health services and training. The length of engagement with the service varies according to the therapy offered with the majority of service users completing therapy within 2 years.
Burleigh House
Nettleton Road
Gloucester
GL1 1PZ
01452 509018
Primary Mental Health Development Service (PMHDT)
This service aims to improve access to psychological therapies and mental health in primary care (PC) by increasing the competence and confidence of staff to work effectively with individuals experiencing mental health problems and by improving access to effective mental health care across the steps of the Stepped Care Model (SCM). The service will develop and support new ways of working and service delivery within both Primary Health Care Teams (PHCT’s) and the Primary Care Assessment and Treatment service (PCAT). Facilitating partnership working and building sustainable relationships across the community and the primary/secondary care interface is essential and will support the implementation of mental health strategies.
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