Please see the attached leaflet outlining the Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust ‘all age’ 24/7 Mental Health Triage Service.
This service is available for all children and adults that live in Hampshire, Southampton, Portsmouth and the Isle of Wight. The specialist mental health triage team are a group of mental health professionals who help and support people’s mental health when they need it. The team are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and can be accessed by either calling 111 or using the online 111 service www.111.nhs.uk. More information about the team and the work that they do is included in the flyer attached.
This service provides 24/7 (365 day) access to Mental Health nurses to ensure a consistent, confident, reliable and sustainable service provided by the MH specialist provider and hosted by NHS 111/999. The Mental Health Triage Service also supports a dedicated Mental Health Rapid Response vehicle which is in partnership with SCAS to provide urgent and emergency mental health care to people who are in their own home or in the community where they have been assessed as needing an emergency response to their mental health.
We have introduced voluntary sector support into our mental health team with the introduction of No Limits to offer a Youth Worker to support children and young people up to the age of 25 with their mental health presentations, connecting to the community support offer, groups, counselling, 48 hour follow up and social prescribing.
We actively support our front line Hampshire Constabulary / British Transport Police Paramedics colleagues on scene as well as other authorised healthcare professionals with informed mental health support over the phone when they are in the community with someone who is presenting with mental health needs.