Recovery and
Rehabilitation team
Information for patients
What is the Recovery and Rehabilitation team?
The Recovery and Rehabilitation
team is a group of professionals
who work with people in the
borough of Milton Keynes who
have been and / or are currently
experiencing a severe enduring
mental health condition, such
as non-organic psychosis,
schizophrenia or bi-polar disorder.
The Recovery and Rehabilitation
team consists of psychiatric
nurses, nurse prescribers, senior
practitioners, psychiatrists,
an occupational therapist,
an assistant psychologist, an
administrator and medical
secretaries.
We aim to:
•To provide treatment for
distressing experiences of
severe enduring mental health
problems
•To provide a range of
psychosocial interventions
•To work with other agencies to
support the person
•To provide support in finding a
way to live a richer, fuller and
more meaningful life
•To provide support in moving on
from services.
The Recovery and Rehabilitation
team is co-located with the Adult
Mental Health Social Care Team,
the Assertive Outreach Team
(AOT) and the Early Intervention
in Psychosis Team (EIPT), enabling
quick access if we feel your
needs would be better met by
another team.
What is a
psychotic experience?
The term is used to describe
conditions that affect the mind,
where there has been some loss
of contact with reality. Psychotic
experiences vary a lot between
individuals and everyone’s
experience will be unique.
Common signs might be:
•Losing trust in people
•Jumbled thoughts
•Trouble sleeping
•Loss of energy
•Isolating self or withdrawal
•Changes in mood
•Hearing voices others
cannot hear
•Feeling suspicious of others
•Unusual beliefs not shared
by others
•Believing others are against you
•Saying things that do not
make sense.
These experiences seem so
real that often the person does
not realise that he or she is
having psychotic experiences.
Experiencing the above can be
scary, confusing and distressing.
The Team was developed to
support you in finding a way to
cope with symptoms and to lead a
meaningful life.
What does
‘recovery’ mean?
Recovery is a very personal
experience and is different
for everyone.
Recovery is a person’s individual
journey of how to live well with
symptoms or vulnerabilities, how
to live a fulfilling and meaningful
life. What ‘recovery’ means to
any one person may even change
over time.
Therefore, we take a personcentred approach and support you
in defining what recovery means
for you and how you may live by
those values.
How to access
our service
You will need to be referred to
our service, after having received
a diagnosis of severe enduring
mental health disorder. A referral is
usually made by secondary mental
health services, like Assessment
and Short Term Intervention
service, community mental health
teams or the Campbell Centre
mental health inpatient unit in
Milton Keynes.
What happens
once you have been
referred?
All referrals are reviewed within
the multidisciplinary team to see if
we are the right service for you.
If the referral is accepted by the
Team, you will be assigned a
clinician within the team. One
of our team will call you to
arrange a first appointment.
Appointments can be at one of
the health centres, the hospital, at
your home or another quiet place
where you can be asked about
your difficulties, resources and
circumstances without breaching
your confidentiality. You can bring
another person for support if that
is your wish.
What happens
after the initial
appointment?
Your clinician will work with you
and will discuss with you a plan
of care based on your needs. A
plan of care is a written document
that details the areas with which
you need support and how this
support will be provided. This
could be a yearly letter or a Care
Programme Approach (CPA).
The plan of care will be reviewed
regularly and will be adapted to
meet your needs as they change.
You and your clinician will
agree on how often you meet,
how often your medication is
monitored and what other support
may need to be arranged. Plans
may include smoking cessation
classes if you wish to stop,
anxiety management workshops,
mindfulness or psychosocial
groups. You will also be invited for
routine physical health checks.
How we can help
How to get in touch
The treatment and support you
receive will be tailored to your
individual needs. Some of the
ways we can help may include:
Recovery and Rehabilitation Team
Westcroft Health Centre
1 Savill Lane
Westcroft
Milton Keynes MK4 4EN
•Educating you and your family
about severe enduring mental
health conditions
•Creating plans to help you
through crisis
•Creating plans for relapse
prevention
•Medication
•Promoting physical wellbeing
•One-to-one support or
group work
•Access to psychosocial groups
•Signposting you to relevant
services to assist you in your
education or employment
•Working together to
enable independence
Tel: 01908 340 967
Fax: 01908 340 962
Useful resources
www.mind.org.uk/
www.themixmk.squarespace.com/
location
www.hearing-voices.org/
www.rethink.org/
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