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Wandsworth Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team is an HTAS accreditation by the (RCP)it is a multidisciplinary, community base. There is variation between borough teams with the numbers of qualifies, non-qualified nursing, Occupational Therapists, Social worker , Peer support worker , 1 Associate specialist Dr and 1 Consultant and 1 Junior Doctor. The team is available to provide care and intervention 7 days a week from 08:30am 10:30pm. The Service is available to adults both male and female from 18 years old and upwards, with the team seeking to address an array of mental health difficulties and crisis intervention as per the referred client's needs. The mental health team that aims to provide a safe and effective home-based assessment and treatment service as an alternative to in-patient admission. We can facilitate early discharge from the ward in the least disruptive and restrictive environment. We work in conjunction with, as well as integrate with other local service elements. The workload is team-based, and our team members do not carry a specific caseload themselves, instead they share one as a collective unit.
- Service Type: Acute and Urgent Care Services
- Service Contact: WandsworthHTT@swlstg.nhs.uk
- Service Category: Community
- Disabled access: No
- Address: Morrison Building, Springfield University Hospital, Jupiter Way, London, SW17 0LL
- Reception hours: 08:30-22:30
- Reception phone number: 02035136605(switchboard) or mobile 07875727262
About our care
After an initial assessment, the Home Treatment Team will work with you to decide how we can best help you. This often involves us keeping in close contact with your Community Mental Health Team (CMHT) or GP. Treating people at home usually involves a combination of home visits and telephone calls. We’re able to offer a complete range of interventions for patients and their carers. These will be tailored to the patient’s individual circumstances.
Who is this service for?
The team will work with people suffering with serious mental illness and who:
- are resident /staying in the borough
- are aged 18 and over
- are in a mental health crisis to the degree that they are being considered for hospital admission
- present an immediate risk to self or others
- are currently in an inpatient or assessment facility
- exceptions to this need to be discussed on a case by case basis with the team manager and consultant.
Referrals and access
The Home Treatment Team accepts direct referrals from Liaison Teams, Inpatient wards, Lotus assessment suite, S136 suite and from Secondary care mental health community teams for adult patients, such as CMHTs, RSTs or EISs 24 hours a day. Outside of normal office hours (i.e. 9-5pm, Monday-Friday) HTTs will also consider direct referrals from GPs, CRAT, Police, AMHPs and Street triage workers
Patient information
Interventions usually include:
- problem solving, stress management, symptom management, routine reassessment of mental state and risk
- direct administration and supervision of medication, medicine side effect management
- psycho-education, brief supportive counselling
- interventions aimed at supporting, maintaining and improving support networks and relationships, establishing a crisis plan
- direct assistance with activities of daily living, direct assistance with housing, benefits, criminal justice issues.
- weekly physical health checks
