Mental Health Practitioners
Our MH Practitioners have 20+ years’ experience in secondary mental health care and help bridge the gap between primary and secondary care.
They see people with a range of complex issues such as:
- Anxiety and depression
- Self-harm
- Drug and alcohol concerns.
- Experiencing signs of relapse
- Recent attendance at A&E or crisis café
- Frequent GP appointment users for mental health conditions
- Early mental health presentations with need for full assessment and management plan developing.
- Health anxieties with multiple presentations but have no underlying cause.
- Initiation and/or review – monitoring of medication
- Deterioration in mental health and monitoring required.
- Pre psychological therapies referral to consider appropriate pathway and psychological needs and onward referral to be completed.
- Non-medical prescribing also available.
Older Adult Mental Health Practitioner
Our Older Adult MH Practitioner has many years of experience in secondary mental health care and helps bridge the gap between primary and secondary care.
She will see people over the age of 65 with a range of complex issues such as:
- Patients with memory issues who do not meet CWP criteria.
- Patients with vascular dementia who have been discharged by CWP.
- Anxiety and depression
- Self-harm
- Drug and alcohol concerns.
- Signs of relapse
- Recent attendance at A&E or crisis café
- Frequent GP appointment users for mental health conditions
- Health anxieties
- Initiation and/or review – monitoring of medication.
- Pre psychological therapies – opportunity to explore and clarify.
Social Prescribers
- Social prescribing support patients with social needs and links them with community groups and organisations best placed to support their health and wellbeing.
- As social prescribers we give patients time to focus on what matters to them and create a support/action plan.
- Social prescribers help patients with mild to moderate anxiety, depression, low self-esteem and stress.
◊ Bereavement/Loss ◊ Emotional Wellbeing ◊ Employment ◊ Money, debts, and benefits ◊ Volunteering ◊ Carer’s support ◊ Accessing community services
| ◊ Loneliness/ Social Isolation ◊ Healthy lifestyle support ◊ Education and Training ◊ Housing issues ◊ Support with long term health conditions. ◊ Family issues ◊ Loss of confidence and purpose |
Care co-ordination
- Bring together all of the patient’s identified care and support needs and what matters to them; explore the options to address these in a single personalised care and support plan.
- Assist people to access self-management.
- Provide coordination and navigation for individuals and their carers across health and care services, helping patients to make the right connections with the right teams at the right time.
◊ Access to self-management support ◊ Frailty management ◊ Falls Prevention ◊ Access to community therapies ◊ Access to dementia services
| ◊ Recent diagnosis of chronic disease – help to coordinate support. ◊ Support following recent hospital discharge ◊ Carer breakdown ◊ Access to Community services
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