Video & Slides

Featuring presentation videos and accompanying slides: This online course is designed for mental health crisis care and home treatment professionals who are working towards service transformation and collaboration. Take just one day out and you will leave this course ready to implement new models of care and achieve best practice in your team. Plus, discover how to enhance your service’s functions, adapt to change and increase your awareness of the charity support available to you and your patients.

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Benchmark your Transformation: Mental Health Crisis Care and Home Treatment Teams
On-demand 4.5 hours £299+VAT

4.5 hours Continuing Professional Development: what you will learn

Benchmark your best practice care through evaluative learning, first-hand case study presentations and relevant discussion on:

  • Assessing current models of mental health crisis care and home treatments
  • Creating a sustainable and effective crisis care and home treatment workforce
  • Navigating reduction of police involvement in welfare checks to ensure quality of care
  • Exploring the practical implications and benefits of the new 111 mental health button model
  • Enhancing collaboration between charities and mental health crisis care teams
  • Building an action plan to drive forward your crisis care service’s transformation

Charity Partnership Showcases and Crisis Care Models Explored

With thanks to Northamptonshire Mind, Grassroots Suicide Prevention and Rethink Mental Illness for taking part. 

Rethink Mental Illness Mind - Northamptonshire

Developed with convenience in mind: join this online course remotely

Packed with examples of best practice, novel ideas and expert advice, plus benefit from:

  • Meeting each other – turning on your videos and microphones in the breakout rooms
  • Listening and watching presentations and speakers’ Q&A – in the main conference room with your chair
  • Taking part in facilitated interactive sessions – enabled by moderators in the breakout rooms
  • Feeding back and engaging – using the chat box and moderators sharing content in the main conference room

8 presentations | 15 parts | 4.5 CPD hours | Filmed on Tuesday 14th November 2023

1
Introduction, instructions and chair’s opening remarks
Dr Jamie Durrance-Clarke, Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Central Cluster Acute Services, Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust
Evolving Home Treatment Teams
2
Case study: Exploring the benefits and pitfalls of a hybrid crisis and home treatment team
  • Assessing the service set up: how a home treatment function fits within the crisis team
  • Navigating the successes and challenges of a combined team: staffing, quality of care and case load management
  • Implementing your plans for timely and effective service transformation
James Pullen, ACP Trainee, Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team (CRHTT), Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust
3
Case Study: Demonstrating the effectiveness of separate home treatment and crisis care teams
  • Transitioning to separate teams: sharing the workload and managing your workforce
  • Collaborating and communicating across home treatment and crisis care teams to ensure effectiveness and quality
  • Measuring the outcomes: impact of staffing, quality and patient care and experience
Philippa Macdonald, Head of Allied Professions – West Directorate & Alison Farthing, Matron North Directorate, Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust
4
Questions and answers with your speakers
Navigating reduction of police involvement
5
Overcoming the challenges of the reduction of police involvement in crisis cases
  • Understanding what the police offer and how that is going to change with Right Care Right Person (RCRP)
  • Adapting to overcome the impact on crisis teams and bridging the gap
  • Streamlining referral processes in the community to avoid inappropriate contact
Sarah Boul, Programme Director for Mental Health, NHS South Yorkshire ICB
6
Questions and answers with your speakers
Accessing third sector services
7
Part 1 - Charity partnership showcase: accessing support to reduce the burden on your crisis care team
  • Exploration into crisis pathways
Gill Taha, Crisis Pathway Manager, Northamptonshire Mind
8
Part 2 - Charity partnership showcase: accessing support to reduce the burden on your crisis care team
  • Stay Alive app: staying safe in a crisis
Alex Harvey, Head of Partnerships & Innovation, Grassroots Suicide Prevention
9
Questions and answers with your speakers
Assessing Models of Mental Health Crisis Care
10
Realities of a first response service: how the new 111 model will work for you
  • Practicalities and functions of setting up and delivering a first response service
  • Understanding the team dynamic: navigating the impact on crisis care teams
  • Exploring the successes and challenges of a direct line: learning for your team
John Ryan, Deputy Head of Urgent Care, Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
11
Realities of a first response service: Transitioning to an integrated 111 mental health service
  • How to achieve an efficient and effective single response service
  • Implementing right support, right place within the mental health crisis pathway
  • Enhancing your service: introducing a rapid response vehicle to improve patient care
Sonya McLean, Senior Programme Manager, Mental Health Crisis Care, Hampshire and Isle of Wight Integrated Care Board
12
Questions and answers with your speaker
13
Crisis Care models explored: effectively incorporating crisis houses in your patient pathway
  • Investigating the functions of crisis houses and how they can reduce patients’ hospital stays
  • Understanding relationships between CRTs and crisis houses and the role they play in crisis care
  • Establishing the impact of crisis housing on patient care
Michael Russon, Team Manager, Shefield Crisis House, Rethink Mental Illness
14
Questions and answers with your speakers
15
Chair’s closing remarks and close of day

First-hand speaker experiences


Job Title:
Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Central Cluster Acute Services
Organisation
Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust
Biography

Job Title:
ACP Trainee, Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team (CRHTT)
Organisation
Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust
Biography

Job Title:
Programme Director for Mental Health
Organisation
NHS South Yorkshire ICB
Biography

Sarah Boul has worked in the health service for over 15 years, starting out in provider services and then local commissioning before moving to NHS England and more recently to NHS South Yorkshire Integrated Care Board (NHS SY ICB). Within the ICB Sarah is the Programme Director for Mental Health focussing on working across South Yorkshire to improve pathways and provision by delivering the Mental Health Long Term Plan transformation ambitions and the ambitions outlined in the NHS South Yorkshire 5 Year Plan. Sarah is a proud resident of Rotherham in South Yorkshire, is a trained mental health first aider and is passionate about the promotion of access to blue and green space to help facilitate positive mental wellbeing.



Job Title:
Deputy Head of Urgent Care
Organisation
Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
Biography

John has been a registered RMN for the last 25 years. Working in a range of inpatient services (Forensic/PICU/acute), for the last 10 years he has been in senior management roles.

John’s previous roles have included being part of the initial senior transition team which facilitated the transition of psychiatric services in Bedford and Luton from South Essex Partnership Trust to East London Foundation Trust. Upon leaving  this post he was taken on as the senior manager for patient flow and bed management in Camden and Islington NHS Trust in London.

From there John was recruited to take the lead on the setting up of The First Response Teams in Central and North West London NHS Trust.

His current role is that of Deputy Head of Urgent Care for CNWL whereby he is the lead clinician for the Central Flow Hub (bed management), FRT’s and the Mental Health Crisis Assessment Service(psychiatric Emergency Department).



Job Title:
Team Manager, Shefield Crisis House
Organisation
Rethink Mental Illness
Biography

Michael has worked for Rethink Mental Illness for 10 years, having been the Registered Manager of the Sheffield Crisis House for 4 years. 

Previously Michael was a Primary School Teacher and came into the Mental Health sector through having lived mental health experience himself.

   


Job Title:
Head of Allied Professions – West Directorate
Organisation
Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust
Biography

Philippa qualified in 1992 as an occupational therapist from Queens College Glasgow. Her first role as a junior therapist was a rotational post in Middlesbrough where she had placements in neurology neurosurgery older adult rehabilitation acute psychiatry and community mental health. It was there Philippa fell in love with mental health. In 1994 Philippa moved south and after a few months as a locum secured a senior post in forensic psychiatry with Oxleas which involved supporting individuals on their transition from hospital into supported accommodation and re-integration into the community. In 1996 Philippa returned briefly to the world of physical health spending time in orthopaedics, surgical and rehabilitation – hand injuries and Royal British Legion scheme. 

1999 saw Philippa return to mental health and start her relationship with KMPT. She initially joined KMPT as senior occupational therapist within acute inpatient services, prior to undertaking some leadership development and taking on her first team manager post within the community mental health teams in Tonbridge in 2001. In 2004 Philippa moved from services in West Kent to manage the mental health team in Gillingham, during this time she was supported to complete her MBA in healthcare management. 2007 saw a change in direction of career when Philippa stepped into a programme manager/ service development role where she led on pathway development, service improvements, building improvements and hospital new builds. She was supported to gain qualifications in project and programme management. 2017 Philippa moved back into operational management within the acute services -initially covering inpatient and Crisis Resolution Home Treatment in the west before organisation restructure led her to oversee all CRHTs, places of safety and support and signposting in 2019. 

Philippa returned to her roots in 2022 and took up the position as Head of Allied Health Professions and moved into her position with the west directorate in April 2023. Philippa’s current role involves providing professional leadership for all allied health professions that work within the west directorate, working closely with her senior colleagues to see how allied health professions can deliver safe effective services and support the implementation of the community mental health framework. Philippa lead on patient, friends, family carer experience and peer support within the directorate. 

Philippa’s aspirations are, as always, to see services that are responsive, deliver excellent care and enable patients, carers and staff to be the best that they can be. Philippa sees her services actively involved in quality initiatives and research, with teams that value the diversity of experience, backgrounds and professions who are enabled to be innovative with coproduction at the centre of all that we do.



Job Title:
Matron North Directorate
Organisation
Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust
Biography

Job Title:
Crisis Pathway Manager
Organisation
Northamptonshire Mind
Biography

Gill Taha has spent the last four years using her personal and career experiences to help people with their mental health illness and provide them with support when their lives seem to be more than they can handle. Gill has lived experience of anxiety, depression and post-traumatic stress disorder. She understands the impact of mental illness on the individual & their family & friends. Gill also knows that although the journey with mental illness can be a struggle there is a way through for most people. Gill understands there is no single approach that works for everyone, so she continues to educate herself on emerging therapies and psychological trends. 

Gill qualified as a Registered Nurse specialising in Oncology before going into senior management roles. On leaving her nursing role she went into education as she believes learning and development is key to empowering individuals. She worked for a private sector training provider delivering mandatory training to the NHS and currently delivers mental health training courses & workshops to corporate organisations on behalf of Northamptonshire Mind. 

The last four years Gill has managed the Crisis Pathway for Northamptonshire Mind which includes the Crisis Cafes, Integrated Response Hub and the Mind support workers that work alongside the Acute Liaison Mental Health Team in Northampton Health Foundation Trusts Accident & Emergency Department. Gill is very proud of the Crisis Pathway which has won several awards. People from other Trusts across the UK have come to gain an understanding of how the service is managed and consider duplicating it within their own areas of work. 

Gill is passionate about speaking about mental health in the correct way. Language can cause unintentional harm and reinforce stigma. But when we get it right, we have the power to transform lives. 

Connect with Gill: 

Email: gill.taha@northamptonshiremind.org.uk 

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gill-wallbank-50865776

   Mind - Northamptonshire 


Job Title:
Head of Partnerships & Innovation
Organisation
Grassroots Suicide Prevention
Biography

Alex Harvey is Head of Partnerships & Innovation at Grassroots Suicide Prevention. He joined the charity in 2010 and has worked with the team to deliver a diverse range of innovative projects aimed at making our communities and workforces safer from suicide, including the Stay Alive app and Real Talk interactive film. As a charity Grassroots Suicide Prevention’s vision is “A future where more lives are saved from suicide”. This involves empowering people to help saves lives from suicide through connecting, educating, and campaigning nationally. Grassroots offers bespoke and evidence-based consultation and training, co-designed to empower individuals, organisations, and communities to develop the skills and confidence to help save lives. The charity helps remove the stigma around suicide and raises awareness through campaigning on the ground and influencing at a strategic level.

   


Job Title:
Senior Programme Manager, Mental Health Crisis Care
Organisation
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Integrated Care Board
Biography

Sonya works as a Senior Programme Manager for Mental Health Crisis Care for the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Integrated Care Board and has been in her position for over 7 years, working in the NHS for over 20 years.

Previous to this role, Sonya has worked in commissioning for urgent care services, contracting urgent and emergency care services, working in Learning Disabilities and Social Care. 

Sonya is a system enabler, delivering transformation at pace and scale across the Integrated Care System through provider collaboratives. This has eradicated unwarranted variation and provided parity for urgent and emergency physical and mental health care.  Sonya’s programme of transformation involves working with multi-agency partners across Local Authority, Police inc. British Transport Police, Ambulance, NHS 111, Acute, Mental Health providers and voluntary sector organisations to name but a few. The programme of work recognises the critical role the ambulance service has through 111/999 and healthcare professional lines in improving patient safety and experience as part of a seamless system response.


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Past attendee feedback

Held as an interactive online forum and now available to you as a series of video presentations, here is some feedback on the excellent content from previous attendees:

"An excellent event, informative and mutually supportive between different colleagues and services"

Rethink Mental Illness, Mental Health Crisis Care and Home Treatment Teams, November 2023

"Really interesting and good for networking"

Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust, Mental Health Crisis Care and Home Treatment Teams, November 2023

"Interesting and informative"

Sheffield Crisis House, Mental Health Crisis Care and Home Treatment Teams, November 2023

“It was a really helpful day and gave up to date information and clear practical ideas of things that we can do locally”

Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, Safety Planning in MH Crisis Care, June 2022

“Well organised content, extremely knowledgeable trainers who were friendly and had an excellent focus to including everyone”

Northamptonshire Health Care Trust, Safety Planning in MH Crisis Care, June 2022

“Very helpful and interesting today”

Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, Safety Planning in MH Crisis Care, June 2022

“Really helpful session with loads of information and tools and plenty of time for discussions”

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, Building a Successful NHS Business Case, June 2023

“I found the day extremely informative. It was so helpful to hear from more experienced managers on how they manage their teams”

North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust, Building Trust and Understanding in your NHS Teams, July 2023

“Informative, in-depth descriptions and realistic suggestions put forward to use in clinical practice”

East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust, Building Trust and Understanding in your NHS Teams, July 2023

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Who came?

If you purchase and view the presentation video and accompanying sides, you will be in good company! The following is an insight into the job titles and organisations who came to Benchmark your Transformation: Mental Health Crisis Care and Home Treatment Teams when it was held on Tuesday 14th November 2023:

Job titles:


  • Advanced Social Work Practitioner/Operational Lead
  • Business Intelligence Partner – West Kent Directorate
  • Clinical Service Manager North CRHT / Matron North Directorate
  • Consultantt Clinical Psychologist
  • Crisis Pathway Manager
  • Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team (CRHTT)
  • Deputy Head of Urgent Care
  • Head of Partnerships & Innovation
  • Nurse Consultant
  • Principal Psychologist CRHTT
  • Quality Improvement Lead
  • Quality Lead
  • Senior programme Manager
  • Service Lead
  • Team Manager
  • West Kent Acute Care Group Service Manager

Organisations:


  • Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
  • Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust
  • Grassroots Suicide Prevention
  • Kent and Medway  NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust
  • Midlands Partnership University Foundation Trust
  • MPFT
  • NHS England
  • NHS Hampshire, Southampton, and Isle of Wight CCG
  • Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust
  • Northamptonshire Mind
  • Rethink Mental Illness