The teams accepts referrals for working age adult patients aged 17 and over. Referrals are routinely received from: Herefordshire and Worcestershires four Mental Health inpatient wards 14 GP practices based in Worcester The South Home Treatment Team. The South Early Intervention Service Mental Health Practitioner caseloads are generally limited to 15-20 cases, allowing the team to deliver a range of psychosocial interventions, including Crisis Safety Planning, Emotional Management and Distress Tolerance Skills, Anxiety Management, Early Warning Signs / Relapse Prevention, Behavioural Activation and Sleep Hygiene. The Team also offers a Managing Emotions Group to patients experiencing emotional dysregulation, often as a preliminary to further psychological work such as DBT.
The team is working to deliver access to NMHT services within 28 days of referral, and are currently meeting this target. There is a twice weekly referrals meeting where new referrals are discussed together with cases of concern, and a monthly team meeting for education and team administration. Psychological intervention is offered via three pathways. There is a dedicated Bipolar and Psychosis pathway, a trauma-specific Specialised Individual (SI) pathway and the more generalised Specialised Teams (ST) pathway.
The Worcester City NMHT has 4.4 FTE funded posts for psychological provision. For full details of the duties and criteria for the role please refer to the job description and person specification attached.