What does the Recovery Service Do?
The Western Trust provides specialist, community-based mental health teams focusing on the needs of those with significant and longstanding mental health problems. Recovery teams aim to provide accessible, effective and timely interventions to support service users to develop hope, resilience and independence – and ultimately to lead meaningful lives. Recovery teams work in partnership with individuals and their families, offering help, treatment and care in an atmosphere of hope and optimism. We strive to build trusting, supportive, empathetic and non-judgmental relationships as an essential part of care, and we encourage service user autonomy, promote patient participation in treatment decisions, and support client self-management. The Recovery Service aims to provide multidisciplinary care and evidence-based interventions. We work with individuals with complex mental health and social care needs, and with those who are most at risk of relapse and hospital admission.
What staff work in the Recovery Service?
Recovery teams provide care through a range of mental health professionals including: community mental health nurses; social workers; consultant psychiatrists and trainee doctors; occupational therapists, and clinical psychologists/ CBT therapists.
Where are the Recovery Service teams located?
There are six Recovery teams within the Western Trust’s Adult Mental Health service.
These are based in Limavady, Strabane, Londonderry (2), Omagh, and Enniskillen.
How do patients access the Recovery Service?
Referrals to the Recovery Service can come from a number of potential sources, including: GPs; Western Trust Adult Mental Health Teams (for example, Primary Care Liaison Service/PCLS, Addictions, Psychological Therapies, Crisis Service, Forensic Service, Eating Disorders Service, Personality Disorder Service); Child and Adolescence Mental Health Services (CAMHS) via Transition panel meetings, Prison Healthcare, and transfers from other community mental health services teams/trusts outside of the Trust area.
When is the Recovery Service Available?
The Recovery Service operates on a Monday – Friday basis, 9:00AM – 5:00PM