About the Access, Mental Health and Wellbeing Service

The Access, Mental Health and Wellbeing Service supports young people and adults experiencing mental ill health or who are at risk of harm.

The service works closely with families, residential settings, commissioned providers, health, and voluntary partners to provide joined-up support and deliver:

• Assessment, Care and Support Planning, Arranging Support and Reviews of people living in community and residential settings who experience mental ill health;
• First response, information and advice, prevention support to enable people to live independently and safeguard from risk of abuse;
• Approved mental health practitioner services, forensic services for people coming out of prison and deprivation of liberty safeguards.

There are 3 main services, all of which are represented in the main contents list of this procedure's manual:

First Contact and Multi-Agency Safeguarding Services: Responsibility for first response teams to new contacts from adult services and multi-agency safeguarding hub which responds to adult safeguarding.

Specialist Mental Health Services: Approved Mental Health Practitioners, Forensics and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards. The Forensic Team - assesses people due to be released from secure units and manages discharge arrangements where supervision is required in the community.

Community Recovery Mental Health Services: Community Mental health Social Work Teams based at Sheffield Health and Social Care (SHSC) Northlands site and the other at East Glade.  These teams assess people for social care needs and provide personalised support and care in the communities where people live.