Home Treatment Team

Crisis resolution and home treatment crht teams can support you if you have a mental health crisis outside of hospital.

Home treatment team. The home treatment team helps avoid admission to the mental health inpatient wards by supporting people in acute mental crisis in their homes. The team in made up of doctors nurses social workers and support workers who are available to support patients carers and their families. Home treatment teams provide support based each person s individual needs. Home treatment ht teams are made up of specialist mental health professionals who can respond to acute mental health problems by providing intensive home based therapies and support as a safe alternative to admission as an inpatient.

We work across sheffield and provide intensive support to our service users and their carers where there has been a significant deterioration in a person s mental health. We gate keep admissions to the glenbourne unit. They aim to assess all patients being considered for acute hospital admission to offer intensive home treatment rather than hospital admission if feasible and to facilitate early discharge. The home treatment team provides short term mental health support at home to help avoid people being admitted to hospital.

We provide 24 hour 7 days access to our service. The team will provide enhanced and intense support and intervention if you have escalating needs and complexity and are at risk of having to go into our inpatient care settings. The home treatment team works between 8am and 10 30pm with night cover from 10 30pm to 8am. Only 1 in 4 people referred to the team are admitted to a ward meaning mhtt help 75 of people recover at home.

Merton home treatment team mhtt staff of nurses star workers doctors and social workers provide safe effective care to people in crisis at home helping preserve family roles independence promoting recovery and reducing stigma. They work closely with community mental health teams and care coordinators. The home treatment team offers an alternative to hospital admission to keep people who are acutely mentally unwell out of hospital and living in the community. Home treatment teams htt home treatment team supports people living in the community aged 16 years old or above who have moderate to complex or serious mental health problems across lancashire.

The teams has various functions including assessment gate keeping and a home treatment function as an alternative to admission. Accessed via our community mental health teams the older adult home treatment team will generally become involved to try and prevent this happening. They re often called crisis teams for short although you might find your local service is called something different.