Mental Health Urgent Care Diversion services
Mental Health Urgent Care Diversion services enable the assessment and treatment of individuals who present to acute services with health needs. Mental Health Urgent Care Diversion staff work alongside acute care staff and community services to ensure a holistic approach to care and ensure that people receive the services that will support their recovery.
The following resources support the development of knowledge skills and competencies for staff working in Mental Health, Urgent Care Diversion services and for agencies that link into the Urgent Care services.
Designed to increase the confidence and core skills of front line staff so that they can be more effective in having conversations about mental health and wellbeing.
Designed to increase the quality and consistency of evidence based assessments. Modules cover the following areas:
- Suicide Prevention
- Self Harm Reduction
- Emotional Resilience
- Compassion at Work
The dementia e-learning sessions emphasise the importance of adopting the perspective and experience of those directly affected by dementia – people living with dementia and their family members
e-LfH Mental Health Awareness for GPs
This programme aims to raise the awareness of mental health amongst health care staff. It gives a broad overview of mental illness, links between mental and physical health diagnoses and outlines some possible treatment options. These sessions provide all staff working within health care with some general strategies to help support individuals.
The sessions are designed to be accessed by any health care professional that has contact with a mother or a baby from the period prior to conception until the child is 1 year of age.
- Module One – Perinatal depression and other maternal mental health disorders
- Module Two – How to recognise perinatal anxiety and depression
- Module Three – Interventions for perinatal anxiety, depression and related
Contact:
Diane Phipps, Training Manager, Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust