Annual Report 2019 - 2020
Working in a Community Mental Health Team (CMHT)
We have social workers, support time and recovery workers, housing and welfare rights workers, carers support worker and administration staff. At one time our staff were working as part of the assertive outreach team. Today they are contributing to working with people across Manchester and supported by CMHT’s. Our Housing and Welfare Rights Workers and Carers Support Worker still work across Manchester supporting people and carers who are on
the Assertive Outreach pathway – this often means that people will have a diagnosed mental illness, have found it difficult to maintain support from CMHT’s and have been in hospital and often have other things going on which makes life difficult e.g. physical ill health, insecure housing, substance use and dealing with stigma and discrimination. These factors often make the work difficult to keep track of as demonstrated in the case study opposite.
Manchester Mind - Page 22
