The service operates the crisis house model in partnership with Look Ahead who provide a crisis house service. This has been set up to as an alternative to hospital admission to offer support and to monitor people who are in distress or crisis.
The Home Treatment Team manages all admissions to the 10 crisis beds available in the crisis house. Three of the beds are for people with more longer term needs while seven are for people needing short term support.
The majority of people are looked after where they live. The team provide space to talk, listening to how the individual is feeling, what their thought processes are, their response to prescribed medication, talk through issues which may be causing alarm, worry or anxiety and working with them to develop strategies to stabilise and feel calmer and more in control.
The team will support the individual to move into a period of rehabilitation and recovery - focusing on the stressors which caused the crisis and looking at long term actions or activities which could help to prevent their mental deterioration and improve their overall wellbeing.