Home Treatment Team
The home treatment team provides short term mental health support at home to help avoid people being admitted to hospital.
Home treatment team. We know that you re at your best when you re at home with your network of friends and family around you. Home treatment helps people to remain at home whilst they recover. They aim to assess all patients being considered for acute hospital admission to offer intensive home treatment rather than hospital admission if feasible and to facilitate early discharge from hospital.
The home treatment teams work closely with the community mental health teams to enhance the care provided in the community for unwell adults and older people. The teams has various functions including assessment gate keeping and a home treatment function as an alternative to admission. A crisis resolution team crt or home treatment team htt is a service that operates around the clock to provide support for people dealing with a mental health crisis and is made up of psychiatrists mental health nurses psychologists social workers and team assistants home treatment accredited scheme 2019.
We work across sheffield and provide intensive support to our service users and their carers where there has been a significant deterioration in a person s mental health.