Mental Health Services in Bath & North East Somerset are
provided through a joint structure, the Local Authority (Social and
Housing Services) together with Avon & Wiltshire
Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust.
These services are known as “secondary services”, provided for
people with severe and enduring mental illness, as for most people
with mental health problems their needs are met through primary
care (i.e. their G.P.). Also within the Service are tertiary
services, local specialist mental health services which are
accessed by the main community teams. In addition, local services
can refer to services which are provided centrally by the Mental
Health Trust (such as the eating disorder service) and to other
providers elsewhere in the country for very specialist needs.
There are eligibility criteria to decide whether someone is
entitled to an assessment and/or a service from the mental health
services. These criteria are the Threshold Assessment Grid (known as TAG) and the Local
Authority’s Fair Access to Care Services.
Once a person is referred to the mental health service,
assessment of needs and any risks, and care planning and reviewing
processes, are carried out under the Integrated Care Programme
Approach (ICPA). This combines Health’s Care Programme Approach
with Social Services’ NHS & Community Care Act
responsibilities.
Mental Health Services provide the following:
- Assessments of need and any risks
- Assessments under the Mental Health Act
- Care plans to enable people to live as independently as
possible
- Monitoring and reviews of care plans
- Practical and emotional support
- Social activity groups, day care services for people with
severe mental illness
- Support to access training, vocational, employment and leisure
opportunities
- Support to carers
- Medication
- Therapeutic interventions
- Talking Therapies
- Family Work·
- Occupational
Therapy·
- Art Therapy·
- Psychotherapy
- An intensive service targeted at keeping people out of
hospital
- Residential facilities
- Hospital in-patient care
- Day hospitals
- A liaison service with the Royal United Hospital
- Support services for people from black and other minority
ethnic communities
We also work closely with the independent (voluntary and
private) sector.
Most services are provided on the basis that the service user
wishes to follow a plan of treatment/support.
Carers are involved wherever possible.
Approved Social Work
Service
Operates across Bath and North East Somerset. Specially trained
Mental Health Social Workers who undertake assessments under the
Mental Health Act, possibly leading to compulsory hospital
admission or Guardianship, for those at greatest risk and who are
not able to engage with services and treatment in the community, or
who are not able to engage with services in the community unless
required to do so by legislation.
Access via Social Services’ Adult Duty desk ( tel. 01225 396256)
during office hours, via Emergency Duty Team (tel. 01454 615165)
out of office hours.
There are three services within the locality:
- Services for Older Adults
- Services for Adults of Working Age
- Rehabilitation Services for Adults of Working
Age
Older Adults Mental Health Services
Bath Older Adults Community Mental Health
Team
St. Martin’s Hospital, Midford Road, Combe Down,
Bath BA2 5RP
tel. 01225 831662
North East Somerset Older Adults Community Mental Health
Team
The Hollies, High Street, Midsomer Norton BA3
2DP
Tel: 01225 396708
Teams are multi-disciplinary, comprising social workers,
community psychiatric nurses, psychiatrists, psychologists,
occupational therapists, care workers.
These teams are the gateway to mental health services. They
provide assessment, care planning, review and monitoring of care
plans, as well as providing or commissioning other services.
St. Martin’s Hospital
Provides in-patient care for
people who are acutely ill with dementia. Has assessment and
rehabilitation wards.
John Plass Day Hospital
Provides programmes of interventions on a time-limited basis, for
people with dementia.
Adults of Working Age
Bath North Community Mental Health
Team
Bath NHS House, Newbridge Hill, Bath BA1 3QE
tel. 01225 731631
Bath South Community Mental Health
Team
Miles House, Dunsford Place, Bathwick Hill, Bath BA2
6HF
tel.01225 324200
North East Somerset Community Mental Health
Team
The Swallows, Paulton Hospital, Salisbury Road, Paulton BS39
7SB
tel. 01761 404410
Teams are multi-disciplinary, comprising social workers,
community psychiatric nurses, psychiatrists, psychologists,
occupational therapists, care workers.
These teams are the gateway to mental health services. They
provide assessment, care planning, review and monitoring of care
plans, as well as providing or commissioning other services.
Hillview Lodge Hospital
Provides
in-patient care for people who are acutely ill. Two open wards,
plus a High Dependency Unit.
Miles House Day Hospital
Provides programmes of interventions on a time-limited basis, plus
specialist medication
clinics.
Intensive Home Treatment
Team
Where
Community Teams feel additional support is required to help prevent
admission to hospital, or on discharge from hospital, this Team can
become involved in a person’s care for up to 6 weeks at a time.
Mental Health Liaison Service to the Royal United
Hospital, Bath
Service provides specialist assessment and interventions for those
people admitted to the General Hospital who have mental health
needs as well as a physical problem or illness
Rehabilitation Services
Service Manager and Head of Social Work: |
| P.O. Box 3343, Bath BA1
2ZH. |
| Tel: 01225 477857 |
Recovery Team
Referrals received via Care Co-ordinator for people on enhanced
ICPA where identified needs are sustained social, functional and/or
psychological disability and require sustained effort to engage
them to improve their functioning. They are likely to have
severe motivational problems.
Active Community Team
(ACT)
An Assertive Outreach Service to which Community Mental Health
Teams can refer service users where additional support is required
to maintain contact and improve delivery of effective care and
treatment.
Sedgemoor Home Link
Referrals from care
co-ordinators to this service. A Supporting People scheme providing
practical and emotional support to assist people to maintain their
accommodation. Includes flats for four people within the
service, available on a 6 month tenancy.
Home Support Service
Referrals from care
co-ordinators to this service. Provides a range of practical and
emotional support to people in their own homes, working alongside
people to help them to maximise their independence, working towards
agreed objectives as agreed in the care plan.
Work Development Team
Referrals from care
co-ordinators to this service. Assists people with mental illness
to keep or gain employment.
Community Support Workers
Referrals from care
co-ordinators to this service. Work primarily in groups, but also
one-to-one work, to provide opportunities for social contact,
leisure, educational and occupation.
Mosaic
Provides a service to service users and
carers from ethnic minority communities. Runs social group as well
as providing one-to-one work.
