Find out more about each professional at enhanced multi-disciplinary team meetings and how they can contribute to care.
Church on the Street is both a Church and registered charity that serves the people of Burnley and the surrounding areas.
We work with a range of partnership organisations as well as offer in-house services, including NHS services (mental and physical health), Inspire, Red Rose, Exodus Recovery Academy and mental health and recovery Groups, Hot Food, Showers and Laundry services.
The Community Learning Disability Health Team (CLDT) is a specialist multi-disciplinary team that provides assessments and interventions for adults and children and young people who have a learning disability and are unable to access mainstream support with reasonable adjustments.
The teams are made up of learning disability nurses, occupational therapists, peer support workers, speech and language therapists, clinical psychologists, psychiatrists, physiotherapists, a pharmacist and an art therapist (only in the Pennine area).
We are a learning disability team, which means that the person must have a global learning disability to access our service and that this has been lifelong, impacts on their day-to-day functioning and that the person's abilities cannot be explained by other means e.g. drug and alcohol issues/mental health issues. This is different to specific learning difficulties like dyslexia/dyspraxia.
What a CLDT can offer when a person is unable to access mainstream services with reasonable adjustments:
- Evidence-based assessments and interventions to support a person’s psychological/emotional wellbeing.
- Evidence-based assessments/interventions around activity levels and support around skill development/ engagement with activities.
- Evidence-based assessments/interventions around dysphagia and communication.
- Evidence-based assessments/interventions around physical health where appropriate and support to access mainstream services where needed.
We work directly with people with a learning disability and also with their families/carers/other professionals that know the person and are largely a Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm service.
Within the Learning Disability Service there are also the following teams:
Discharge Co-ordination Team (DCT)
The Learning Disability Discharge Coordination Team (formed in 2021) is a learning disability nurse led team who coordinate the discharge of individuals with a learning disability and who may also be autistic, who are admitted to acute mental health (LSCft) beds and those in specialist learning disability beds out of area (nationwide).
The team are aligned to Lancashire County Council, Blackburn with Darwen, Cumbria and Blackpool social care teams to ensure a coordinated approach to discharge planning, although they are not part of the same team.
Intensive Support Team (IST)
IST (formed 2021) are responsible for providing specialist assessment and assertive interventions for young people and adults with a learning disability aged 16 years and above, who are at immediate risk of placement breakdown or hospital admission due to having complex health needs, including behavioural distress and/or mental health deterioration. Subsequent development of the team includes an in-reach offer into inpatient settings where admission cannot be avoided; to support the person and their staff teams in understanding how to make reasonable adjustments, formulation work, role modelling, staff training and reflection sessions.
Health Facilitation Team (HFT)
The learning disability Health Facilitation Team provide in-reach support to primary care and support the development of processes to promote access and inclusion for people with learning disabilities.
The Team is nurse-led and works collaboratively with key stakeholders, including NHS commissioners and primary care networks.
Our strategy is to increase the number of people identified and included on the learning disability registers in each GP practice and promote access to high-quality annual health checks in an effort to reduce the health inequalities existing in the learning disbaility population.
The adult CMHT is a multi-disciplinary team that provides mental health treatment for adults with complex and enduring mental health needs, who can benefit from specialist support.
What a CMHT can offer:
- Provide evidence-based interventions, including psychological and pharmacological treatments for people with more complex and enduring mental health needs
- Offer meaningful engagement with patients and promote recovery
- Safeguard vulnerable adults from all forms of abuse
- Promote occupational and social functioning and quality of life for patients
- Provide physical health interventions where appropriate
- Promote stability within the lives of patients and their carers’
- Provide a key worker within the CMHT to support with the above.
The older adults CMHT supports people over the age of 65 with severe and enduring mental health needs and for people under 65 with early onset dementia.
The key aims of the older adults CMHT:
- Care, support and treatment for service users with dementia and complex mental health needs.
- Care, support and treatment for people with mental health problems which are more complex and enduring
- Mental health medication and physical health monitoring
- Promote stability within the lives of patients and their carers
- Provide a key worker within to support with the above if appropriate.
Getting back into employment can be a vital part of a recovery journey. The IPS Employment Support Team will help you find the right job for you by discussing your preferences and interests.
If you are aged 16+, with severe mental illness and want to start looking for a job, we can help.
We can also provide support if you are in employment and your mental health is being impacted by your role, your role is at risk due to your mental health or you need support to return to work following a period of sickness absence.
Categories:
- Careers advice
- Employment and training initiatives
- Support with employment
Service access criteria:
Must access mental health support within primary care in the Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust.
- To be aged 16+
- Experiencing severe mental illness
- An interest in employment
- Available for people living in Lancashire, Blackpool, Blackburn and South Cumbria
Further information and referral: Individual Placement and Employment Support (IPS) webpage.
Key workers are registered professionals from within the Community Mental Health Integrated Team. Your key worker may change depending on your needs such as mental health nurse, occupational therapist, psychologist or social worker.
- Your key worker will be your main point of contact at that time and support you, your family and carers to navigate the system.
- Your key worker will provide an assessment and create a person-centred care plan with you, your carer and family.
- Your key worker will be your primary intervention giver in most cases.
- Your key worker will update care and safety plans at the end of an intervention or if your needs change.
- Your key worker will provide a link to other support as required and may signpost you to community resources and support.
- Your key worker will have regular reviews with you, will discuss your recovery pathway and plan for your discharge (when you are ready).
We are a pan-Lancashire charity, and our aim is to support LGBTQ+ people, their family members, and carers to be happier, healthier, and better connected. Our vision is that ‘All LGBTQ+ people in Lancashire can be safe and feel a sense of pride and belonging’. Our core work focuses on improving mental health and wellbeing and reducing social isolation, and all services are based on the identified needs of the LGBTQ+ people we support.
- Information service
- One-to-one support from a dedicated support worker
- Counselling service
- Mental Health Support groups
- Peer Support groups
- Activity groups
- LGBTQ+ training
- Workshops promoting well-being and improving mental health
We also have a Partnership with Leeds and York NHS gender identity service with two gender outreach workers who offer 1-2-1 support for anyone on the care pathway or thinking about medically transitioning.
Maundy Relief has been serving the residents of Hyndburn for over 25 years. We are open to all and our mission is to offer an immediate and person-centred response to poverty and need and to support the on-going wellbeing of those who seek our help.
We offer a range of services, all of which are open access and include a drop in centre, a housing advice and support service, a welfare benefits advice service and health and talking therapies services. Further information is available on the Maundy Relief website.
Mental health occupational therapists (OTs) form part of the Community Mental Health Team (CMHT), but are invited to EDMT when a service user’s occupational needs or independent functioning are impacting their mental state, or if there is a risk/current deterioration in their ability to independently engage in their usual roles and activities (including self-care, productive or leisure). They may also be invited to attend on behalf of some of the wider allied health professional (AHP) groups (physiotherapists, speech and language therapists, podiatrists, dieticians, physical health OTs) in order to establish whether onward referrals/assessment is required for issues relating to mobility and exercise, communication, speech and swallowing, footcare, nutrition and hydration and provision of aids and adaptations.
Primary care mental health practitioners work alongside trainee and associate psychologists who will deliver primary care interventions for the people who need it.
Mental health practitioners support people with complex mental health needs to live well in their communities. They provide assessments, short-term interventions and ongoing referrals for people who don’t meet the criteria for secondary care. They provide GPs and other primary care staff with timely support on the best ways to help people with complex mental health needs. Their role is to improve the management of mental health conditions in primary care.
The new way of working places community at the heart of mental health care. A partnership has been formed with multiple voluntary organisations to provide peer support workers to work alongside staff in our community mental health and integrated teams. Peer support workers encourage and support people with mental health needs to engage with services and introduce and work with VCFSE organisations who offer a range of activities and social connectivity.
Mental health pharmacists and pharmacy technicians work as part of the Community Mental Health Team (CMHT). Their key role is to promote safe use of medicines and ensure the best outcomes from medications prescribed for mental health problems. They will be able to highlight the benefits and risk of treatment options, avoid unnecessary medicines and reduce the risk of side effects. They can also support in choosing the right medication.
The Specialist Perinatal CMHT (SPCMHT) is a multi-disciplinary team that provides mental health treatment for people who are currently in the perinatal period (from conception to two years post birth) suffering with moderate, severe or complex mental health problems arising or being exacerbated by the perinatal period.
What a SPCMHT can offer:
Provide a pre-conception counselling appointment for people who have a history of severe, complex or enduring mental illness considering a pregnancy.
- Provide an evidence-based, specialist, holistic assessment of mental health needs, relationship with baby, social and historical needs.
- Provide evidence-based interventions, including psychological and pharmacological treatments
- Offer meaningful engagement with patients and promote recovery
- Safeguard children and vulnerable adults from all forms of abuse
- Promote occupational and social functioning and quality of life for patients
- Provide physical health assessments where appropriate
- Promote stability within the lives of patients and their carers’
- Provide parent and infant assessment, support and psychotherapy, including bonding and attachment work, and specific parent-infant therapy.
- Provide a systemic family therapy-informed approach
- Provide a key worker within the SPCMHT to support with the above.