Suitable for:

Suitable for:
Patients discharged back into the community, prior to their case transferring to local community teams. The individual will therefore have been on a low or medium secure ward and will be a mentally disordered offender with a diagnosis of severe and enduring mental illness and/or personality disorder. Typically, such patients will also have complex needs, often including challenging behaviour and/or substance misuse and a serious and ongoing risk of violence and injury to self or others and/or sexually inappropriate behaviour.

Offer:

Support, treatment and monitoring for patients. The core function of the team is to support patients actively and to monitor their mental states and behaviours and the risks they may pose. The CFT will then work closely with the service user’s CMHT to hand the care over to a local team.
The CFT comprises three community psychiatric nurses (CPNs), one social worker, one occupational therapist, a staff grade doctor and one consultant psychiatrist. Interventions include developing skills in dealing with agencies and daily living, basic counselling, mental state assessments, screening for substance misuse, support and education about healthy living, interpersonal, sexual and cultural needs.