Community Mental Health Service

The Forfar/Kirriemuir Community Mental Health Team's primary aim is to provide a high quality, comprehensive service to people experiencing severe and enduring mental ill health. The team also provides a service to those with more moderate or mild mental health difficulties aligned to difficult life events or circumstances.
 

Working within a multi-agency, multi-disciplinary setting the team is comprised of a number of professionals, including social workers, mental health nurses, project workers, social care officers, support workers and administrative staff managed by a team leader and supported by a consultant psychiatrist and his clinical team.
 

The team aims to ensure that each individual referred receives a holistic assessment and endeavours to offer a wide range of interventions, treatment and support to improve the health, safety and quality of life of people in our community.

Angus Council Social Work and Health and NHS Tayside have set up Joint Community Metal Health Team’s for Older People with Mental Health problems. These teams assess and review needs, provide a range of treatments and arrange services to meet identified needs to people whose problems are of a nature and complexity such that they cannot be adequately managed in a primary care/care management team setting and require specialist input and/or Multi-disciplinary management.
 

These teams are made up of experienced staff from Health and Social Work, including Mental Health Nurses, Social Workers, Occupational Therapists, Psychiatrist, Psychologist and Support Workers, who work together, to help people with Mental Health problems, including:
 

• People of all ages with dementia
• Older people with functional mental health problems, such as anxiety and depression, or experiences such as hallucinations, or being upset by unusual beliefs (delusions)
   

The Community Mental Health Team also work with relatives and carers, offering advice, information and support.

The following range of services may be provided following an assessment of need.

• Treatment
• Support
• Monitoring Mental Health
• Admission to hospital
• Day Care
• OT Services
• Home Care
• Respite
• Welfare benefits and budgeting advice
• Residential and Nursing Home Care