MH1. Affective Disorder Team - Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council

Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust provides a range
of mental health, learning disability and substance misuse
services for the 1.3 million people living in County Durham, the Tees
Valley and the Scarborough, Whitby and Ryedale areas of North
Yorkshire.
Our service users and their carers are at the heart of everything we
do and we are continuously developing our services to better meet
their individual needs.
We want to make sure that people are able to access the specialist
care and treatment they need quickly and as near to their homes as
possible.
The staff involved in the care of people with mental health needs
from health and social care have joined together to form community
mental health teams. This includes social workers, community
mental health nurses, doctors, occupational therapists, and support
workers.
The community mental health teams work with people with mental
health needs to identify:
What do I do in a crisis?
Contact the team between 9am and 5pm, Monday to
Friday and ask for your worker or the duty worker.
At any other time contact one of the below for advice and
assistance:
Crisis <strong>Team</strong> Tel: 01642 524714
Emergency Duty <strong>Team</strong> Tel: 08702 402994
NHS Direct Tel: 0845 4647
Contact your own GP
In an emergency call 999
Where to find us:
what problems they have
what help can be arranged for them
This means that anyone who needs the support of health or social
care will find they have:
one assessment
one care package
one person making sure that they receive the right care.
We want to make it easier for you to see the right professional at the
right time without having to have more than one assessment of your
needs. This means that you won’t have to be asked the same
questions more than once. This way of arranging the services
you need is called care co-ordination.