Home Treatment Team Southwark - South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

Our office, reachable directly on 020 3228 3500, serves as the primary point of contact for the dedicated Home Treatment Team Southwark. This vital service is meticulously designed to provide comprehensive, community-based mental health care and support for individuals aged 18 to 65. Our core mission is to facilitate recovery and stability within the comfort and familiarity of a person's own home, presenting a highly effective and compassionate alternative to traditional hospital admissions. This approach significantly alleviates the considerable stress, anxiety, and general disruption often associated with inpatient psychiatric care. Our support is specifically tailored to residents exclusively within the geographical boundaries of the London Borough of Southwark, ensuring focused and readily accessible mental health services for the local community.

The Home Treatment Team Southwark comprises a truly multidisciplinary unit, bringing together the essential skills and extensive experience of both clinical health and social care professionals. This integrated structure allows us to approach each individual's unique needs holistically, providing well-rounded, compassionate, and truly person-centred support. A primary responsibility of our team involves undertaking thorough clinical assessments to accurately identify the most appropriate onward pathways and necessary referrals within Southwark's comprehensive mental health services network. This meticulous process ensures that each service user's specific mental health requirements are addressed with precision, efficacy, and timely intervention, fostering a pathway to improved wellbeing.

While we are fully equipped to provide a rapid secondary assessment service for those individuals whose complex and acute mental health conditions regrettably necessitate a period of hospital admission, our overarching mission and continuous endeavour is to deliver acute treatment for the maximum number of people directly within their home environments. This unwavering commitment underscores our belief in fostering recovery and stability in a familiar setting, thereby promoting as much continuity of daily life as possible and aiding in the avoidance of unnecessary hospitalisation. Ultimately, this Home Treatment Team Southwark provides intensive psychiatric support and acute mental health treatment directly within the community, operating around the clock, 24 hours a day, every day of the year. It stands as a robust, highly supportive, and genuinely community-centred alternative to inpatient hospital treatment, prioritising convenience, comfort, and profoundly personalised care for all eligible Southwark residents facing mental health challenges. Our focus remains firmly on delivering effective crisis intervention and ongoing support to empower individuals to manage their mental health conditions at home.