Wakefield community rehabilitation team

Why a professional should choose the service

The service is a cost saving alternative to hospital, locked rehabilitation placements, supported living and out of area placements, whilst also delivering on local and national agendas of providing care closer to home and enabling people to live well in their own communities.

We can work intensively with people for up to two years, providing long term functional support.

Service users learn skills that will help to prevent relapse, reduce dependence on services and develop self-efficacy.

The service will help to speed up patient flow.

Championing a recovery focus, the team can support mainline mental health teams to maintain focus on helping service users out of secondary care and back to primary care services.

The team already meets the aspirations of the new government 10-year plan by providing therapy focused on preventing relapse, dependence on services and unnecessary admissions to acute wards and longer-term placements for treatment.

Support offered

Specialist occupational therapy assessment, care planning and treatment that is additional to a service user’s main mental health team’s input.

Functional, vocational and motivational intervention such as:
Graded exposure plans
Routine building
Anxiety management
Confidence building

Skill building such as developing self-care, cooking, budgeting, maintaining a clean and safe living environment, attending to post and bills.

Independence and self-efficacy focused approach, where staff work with a person to help them to become more able to manage the demands of their life alongside their mental health, without needing the support of others.

Outcomes

Enable people to be more confident, functionally able and motivated to manage the demands of their life, alongside their mental health.

Prevent hospital admissions, supported living placements and locked rehabilitation placements by delivering intensive functional support in a person’s own home.

Accelerate hospital discharges, supported living and locked rehabilitation move-on by delivering functional rehabilitation and recovery in a person’s own home.

Reduce the amount of service users in out of area placements.

Reduce the amount of time that service users placed within out of area placements spend away from home and relocate them sooner.

Connect service users to their local community support networks, third sector services and vocational opportunities.

Deliver a rehabilitation and recovery perspective and education to other teams.

Referrals accepted from:

Other Trust services

Referrals also accepted from:

Referrals are accepted from core, enhanced and insight teams.

Referral criteria:

Core, enhanced and insight teams can request a referral form by emailing CRTReferrals@swyt.nhs.uk Please send completed referral forms to this email address.

Referrals must come from the service user’s allocated care coordinator, lead healthcare professional or ward based occupational therapist.

We can only accept referrals for service users already under the care of a secondary mental health community team – enhanced, core or insight teams.