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This
20 bed community residential service with 24 hour support provides
medium to long-term accommodation, clinical care and rehabilitation
for people with a serious mental illness and psychosocial
disability.
Located
in a residential area, it provides the residents with “home-like”
accommodation where they can learn or re-learn everyday living
skills necessary for their successful living in the
community.
This
is a 44 bed acute adult inpatient unit, located within an acute
general hospital, with an Extra Care Unit. It operates using a primary
nursing model and includes a therapeutic activities program. It
also includes five beds, which have a state-wide role in providing
inpatient mental health services as part of the Victorian Aboriginal
Health Service.
The
acute inpatient service provides short-term inpatient assessment,
treatment and management during the acute phase of mental illness
until sufficient recovery allows the person to be treated
effectively in a community-based setting. People admitted to the
inpatient service from the community are usually assessed initially
by the CAT team.
Consultation
– liaison psychiatric services are also provided to assist with
psychiatric care of general medical and surgical patients at St.
Vincent’s Hospital.
This
service provides training, education and consultation to agencies
delivering mental health or drug and alcohol services to improve the
health outcomes of people with a mental illness and substance abuse
issues.
St.
Vincent's Mental Health, in partnership with St. Vincent’s
Department of Addiction Medicine and Turning Point Alcohol & Drug
Centre, manages the Northern Dual Diagnosis Service (known as
Northern Nexus), which aims to improve services for people with
co-existing mental illness and substance abuse problems. The service provides
training and consultation to mental health and drug & alcohol
treatment agencies in the local government areas of Banyule,
Nillumbik (North East area), and Yarra and Boroondara (Inner Urban
East area).
The
University of Melbourne
The
University of Melbourne, a leading institution in teaching and
education, has developed extensive links internationally,
particularly with countries in Asia.
Over
many years, SVMH and The University of Melbourne Department of
Psychiatry, Asialink, the Australian International Health Institute
and the Centre for International Mental Health have hosted
many international academics, clinicians and trainees for various
training attachments.
SVMH
has been working with these departments and centres at The University of
Melbourne to provide a comprehensive training program in mental
health.
Aged Persons Mental
Health Services
(St. George’s Health Service)
This
service led by the Academic Unit for Psychiatry of Old Age,
University of Melbourne, comprises a full range of old age
psychiatry service and specialist ambulatory
clinics.
Normanby
Unit (Acute Aged Inpatient Service) provides short-term inpatient
management during an acute phase of mental illness until sufficient
recovery allows the person to be treated effectively in a
community-based setting. This service is located with other aged
care facilities at St. George’s Hospital.
Community
Services consisting of the Aged Psychiatry Assessment and Treatment
Team (APATT), and Extended Care Services are based at St. George’s
Health Service in Kew. These services provide assessment and
treatment, rehabilitation, ongoing case-management and consultation
services.
Riverside
House (Psychogeriatric Residential Services) in Richmond, and Auburn
House in Hawthorn, each provide 30 psycho-geriatric nursing home
places for older people who require a high level of care on a
longer-term basis.
NorthWestern Mental Health
A clinical division of Melbourne
Health, NorthWestern Mental Health operates in partnership with
Northern Health and Western Health to deliver a comprehensive range
of specialist, community and hospital-based mental health services
to the communities of northern and western metropolitan Melbourne - a
population of around 1.2 million.
There are 442 beds across NorthWestern
Mental Health and a workforce of 1,572 employees with an EFT of
1,212.
The following services are designed to
promote a continuum of care for those with a serious mental illness.
Austin Health
The Mental Health Clinical Service
Unit (MHSCU) is part of Austin Health, which is one of Victoria's
largest health care providers. Catering to diverse multicultural and
veteran communities, the service delivers vital state-wide services
to Victorians and a vast array of speciality services to the people
of Melbourne's north-eastern corridor.
It also provides a comprehensive range
of child and adolescent mental health services. Services are
provided on an inpatient basis and in community settings.
The Mother Baby Unit
is a specialist unit of Austin Health. It is a
six-bed unit where mothers with mental illness and their infants up
to 12 months of age can be managed. Treatment includes pharmacology,
cognitive behavioural therapy, art & dance therapy, as well as
support for mothering. Partners are also welcome and an important
part of the program. Women have a range of diagnoses, the most
common being depression, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, postpartum
psychoses, personality disorders and substance abuse.
Close by is the Infant clinic, an outpatient clinic for mothers and
their infants where psychological treatments and groups run weekly.
A similar clinic runs for mothers who deliver at the Mercy Hospital,
an obstetric service on the same campus as the Austin (which
trainees may also attend).
The unit is also linked to the Northpark private
hospital, which has a 10 bed mother-baby unit, similar to the Austin
unit but for women with private health insurance. In addition they
take women who have primarily parenting difficulties. There is an
outpatient day program three days a week, including a range of
psychological therapies.
Mental Illness Fellowship
The
Mental Illness Fellowship is
Victoria's leading membership-based not-for-profit organisation
working with people with mental illness, their families and friends
to improve their well being.
One of the Mental Illness Fellowship's
day programs is Bromham Place at 10 Bromham Place,
Richmond. This program allows
people to actively engage in their own recovery, with staff and
members jointly running the program. Members participate in a structured day
program comprising art, social, communications,
job seeking and recreational activities.
Associated Sites
Visits to the following sites may be
arranged when appropriate:
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