Rehabilitation Team
The Rehabilitation Team supports people with complex mental health difficulties to achieve their goals and gain the skills and confidence to live as independently as possible.
Communities that Care
The Open Mental Health Rehabilitation Team supports people with people with complex mental health difficulties to achieve their goals and gain the skills and confidence to live as independently as possible.
The service was set up in April 2023 as part of NHS Somerset’s transformation of mental health services across the county. People are supported for the most part in the community as we create a system which avoids hospital admission.
Holistic vision
The vision is for a holistic service which supports people for longer, working with them to look at all their needs including physical health and support to find housing.
The service is initially set up to support around 40 to 50 people with a skilled and experienced multi-disciplinary team. The team includes a psychiatrist, psychologist, occupational therapist, mental health nurses and rehabilitation and wellbeing workers.
Strong partnerships
The service is linked with key services across the county including Open Mental Health, the Recovery College, NHS inpatient and community teams. There are also strong links to partner organisations outside the NHS including housing services and voluntary sector services.
From its inception, the service has been designed and shaped with the support of people with direct lived experience of coping with long-term mental health difficulties. Together we looked at what kind of experience we wanted for people using the Community Rehabilitation Service. This wordcloud is the result of our discussions:
Referrals
Referrals and transfers to the service come from Somerset Foundation Trust’s teams only for the time being.
Referrals will be made electronically from a person’s current care team.
Should you feel that you or someone you care for would benefit from this service then we encourage you to discuss this with your family and/or your keyworker who will be able to make a referral on their behalf.
Working in partnership:
