Living Well Service Trafford
What is the Living Well Service Trafford?
The current Primary Care Mental Health Wellbeing service (PCMHWS) is in transition, the team is trained to deliver the new Living Well service. The Living Well hubs have gone live in the North and Central part of Trafford.
Living Well Trafford is a Primary care mental health service that has been co-designed and co-produced by several partner organisations and people with lived experience in Trafford. We are a multi- agency team that is jointly funded by GMMH, Trafford ICG and Trafford Primary Care Networks.
The Living Well model has been informed and designed by the Trafford collaborative, which includes clinical and non-clinical practitioners from Greater Manchester Mental Health (GMMH), the Voluntary Community and Social Enterprise sector (VCSE), peer mentors, Trafford Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) but more importantly people with lived experience.
Living Well Trafford will be a trauma informed, strengths based, solution focused service and will recognise and support people to overcome the social determinants of mental health difficulties through:
- Holistic, person-centred, integrated care.
- Multi agency team working, delivering trauma informed, person centred clinical and social interventions.
- Fostering collaborative leadership and commissioning
- Managing demand differently and achieving greater integration between NHS and Voluntary sector services.
Who is this service for?
The Living Well Team offer a range of support to prevent and improve mental health and positive well-being. Living well in Trafford has been developed to meet the needs of people who are not meeting the criteria for secondary care.
Ethnographic research showed that people in Trafford were spending extended periods of time on waiting lists and often felt like they were struggling to get any help with regards to their mental health.
This group of people were too complex for IAPT or GP and sub threshold for secondary care.
Referral Criteria
Admission to the service will be based upon the following criteria:
Living Well is for anyone who would like to access support around their mental health by working towards supporting the individual, positive goal setting and solution focused.
Living Well aims to empower people to make their own choices and to take part in everyday life, embedding this support within the local community to increase people’s engagement and connection within their community. Living Well Trafford will work with:
- People on the Severe Mental Illness (SMI) register under GP care.
- Those people who are deemed too complex for IAPT and GP and sub threshold for secondary mental health services.
- People with common mental health problems whose mental health is compounded by wider social determinants such as social stressors, housing, poverty, debt, substance misuse.
- People who are experiencing emotional distress due to trauma.
- People who attend urgent care service including A&E where their mental health needs may be better met within a primary care service.
This Living Well service will not be suitable for:
- People who are already under the care of secondary CMHT mental health services.
- High-risk service users (i.e. service users with suicidal intent, severe self-injurious behaviour) identified through clinical judgement and/or objective risk outcome tools who require urgent/same day crisis support for their mental health.
- Drug/ alcohol problems are not a reason for excluding an individual, however if their use is to such a degree that they are unable to benefit from team interventions they should be encouraged to take up support from the drugs and alcohol service.
- Clients that pose a risk to staff.
- Those people who live in Trafford but do not have a Trafford GP.
- Those people who require ADHD, Autism and Asperger’s diagnosis and post diagnostic support.
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