For Patients and Visitors
What is the Service?
Adult Community Teams provide specialist mental health assessment, care and treatment for people in community-based locations in northern and north western metropolitan Melbourne.
What can I expect from the service?
Adult Community Teams work in collaboration with the person, their General Practitioner, private psychiatrist, family/carers and other supports as appropriate. Together they work on a plan to support recovery.
Our Community Teams typically offer:
• face-to-face clinical assessment
• development of a joint recovery and wellness plan, based on the needs and preferences of the consumer and their family/carer
• clinical interventions; short or longer-term based on the person’s needs
• care likely to include linkages to primary care supports, support for recovery, physical health screening, psycho education, short term therapy and medication support
See also www.health.vic.gov.au/mental-health-services/acute-inpatient-services
Contact us
Adult Community Teams If you would like to discuss an appointment, contact Triage on 1300 874 243 (1300 TRIAGE).
For Health Professionals
Our Adult Community Teams provide specialist mental health assessment, care and treatment for people across seven community-based locations in north and northwestern metropolitan Melbourne.
When a person is admitted to our Community Team, a key clinician and a treating doctor are allocated to work with them. Our Community Teams work in collaboration with the person, their General Practitioner, private psychiatrist, family/carers and other supports as appropriate. Together they work on a plan to support recovery.
Our Community Teams typically offer:
• face-to-face clinical assessment
• development of a joint recovery and wellness plan, based on the needs and preferences of the consumer and their family/carer
• clinical interventions; short or longer-term based on the person’s needs
• care likely to include linkages to primary care supports, support for recovery, physical health screening, psycho education, short term therapy and medication support
We also offer a consultative service to primary care to enhance the capacity of primary care providers to recognise and treat mental health disorders in the community, through:
• specialist assessment, secondary consultation and provision of advice and education
• facilitating the linking with other service providers
• providing shared care with other health professionals
• providing post-care for people who have completed an episode of care and are having intermittent follow-up, including phone calls and/or review appointments
The type of support and intervention provided by our Adult Community Teams depends on need and varies in duration from a few weeks to a much longer period of time. Care is provided by a multidisciplinary team seven days a week, from morning to mid evening.
Inclusion criteria:
As a public clinical mental health service, our services are for people with a significant level of disturbance, psychosocial need or concern regarding a risk to themselves or others as a result of a mental illness. Common diagnoses treated by our services include, but are not limited to:
• schizophrenia
• psychosis
• bipolar disorder
• severe personality disorder
• severe depression or anxiety disorder
Entry criteria is consistent with those for all public acute inpatient mental health services.
How to Refer:
Adult Community Teams If you would like to discuss an appointment, contact Triage on 1300 874 243 (1300 TRIAGE).
Enquiries:
Community Team – Darebin
Northern Area Mental Health Service
83 Hotham Street
Preston South VIC 3072
Phone
(03) 9416 6300Fax
(03) 9480 4176
Community Team – Hume
North West Area Mental Health Service
Broadmeadows Health Services
35 Johnstone Street
Broadmeadows VIC 3047
Phone
(03) 8345 5611Fax
(03) 9309 3791
Community Team – Coburg and Brunswick
North West Area Mental Health Service
Level 1, 130 Bell Street
Coburg VIC 3058
Phone
(03) 9355 9700
Fax
(03) 9355 9701
Noogal Clinic – Whittlesea
Northern Area Mental Health Service
16-20 Oleander Drive
Mill Park VIC 3082
Phone
(03) 8468 3800
Fax
(03) 8468 3801
