NHS - Adult's Specialist Community Mental Health Team - North East Essex

The Colchester Specialist Mental Health Team (CSMHT) and the Tendring Specialist Mental Health Team (TSMHT) provide a range of interventions and support for the treatment of adults with Serious Mental Illness (SMI), including: 

• involvement of a care coordinator to support individuals who have complex needs, including physical, social, environment and psychological factors
• involvement of a lead practitioner to complete care planning and provide specific and time-limited input where appropriate and referring / sign posting to local community services
• access to their 'Starting My Recovery Groups', providing brief psychologically informed interventions
• review with a psychiatrist for the purpose of diagnoses and treatment
• monitoring individuals with established 117 needs under the Mental Health Act 
• a dedicate duty service operating during working for individuals with an open referral to the Specialist Community Mental Health Teams who require urgent advice or crisis support
• providing carer’s assessments to those carer’s where a service user has an open to a team
• access to their dedicated physical health clinics for ongoing monitoring of health