Voluntary and Independent

Services currently provided in Knowsley

Knowsley Choices

Provides a user led service for people with severe and enduring mental health needs. The project promotes mental health and social inclusion through the provision of social, recreational and educational groups in four locations in Knowsley.

To use the service a person should be a resident of Knowsley, aged 18 to 65, experiencing mental health issues and be within the Care Programme Approach.

Contact: Ursula Rigert, Project Manager

Tel: 0151 426 3115

Email: ursula.rigert@pss.org.uk

Community Support

Offers a range of one to one support and care to meet all level of need; either at home or out and about within the community. Services range from an hour a day, or occasional "respite" support; up to 24 hours a day / 365 days a year.

Services are person centred, providing tailored, one to one support packages to meet the needs of vulnerable people who wish to remain in, and be part of their communities.

Contact : Irene Reid, Project Manager

Tel: 0151 426 1401

Email: irene.reid@pss.org.uk

Adult Placement

Adult Placement offers individual support promoting a greater sense of independence as well as opportunities to integrate into the wider community, whilst living within an Adult Placement carers home as part of a family. Adult Placement offers family life to Older People, people with mental health needs, physical impairment or learning disabilities. It also offers solutions for people with dementia, intermediate care as an alternative to hospital admission or, indeed, to enable discharge until the person concerned can regain their independent lifestyle, Adult Placement is a practical solution for a wide range of social needs.

Contact: Maureen Smith, Project Manager

Tel: 01744 609553

Email: maureen.smith@pss.org.uk

Newby Drive

Situated in Huyton, the Newby service provides medium to long-term, supported accommodation, in 3 flats for eleven adults of working age on an enhanced CPA. The service provides 24 hour waking support. This service also provides a separate, two bedroom flat for the provision of respite for service users on an enhanced CPA residing in Knowsley.

The service is based firmly on enabling and empowering its service users to participate in the local community, with the objective of a move to more independent living.

Newby accepts referrals from social workers or health professionals for adults with a mental health diagnosis on enhanced CPA

Contact: Sharon Cooper, Project Manager

Tel: 0151 489 3053/8782/2765

Email: sharon.cooper@pss.org.uk

Support Service

The support service provides personal assistance to enable service users to carry out tasks, promoting independence and confidence. The personal assistance support includes: maintaining and developing daily living skills, emotional support, respite and sleep-overs.

These flexible and needs-led services are available to people with physical and/or sensory impairments, learning difficulties or mental health needs in Knowsley.

Contact: Janet Vickers, Project Manager

Tel: 0151 702 5575

Email: janet.vickers@pss.org.uk

Mediation Service

Mediation allows clients who have separated (or who are about to do so) to settle family disputes themselves with the help of a professional mediator, rather than by going to court or by negotiation between solicitors. The service is available to both parents and non-parents and those who are married and those who are not, as well as to grandparents and other family members.

Future planning could be about arrangements for the children or about how to settle finance and property matters.

Contact: Richard Ayres, Project Co-ordinator

Tel: 0151 260 9155

Email: mediation@pss.org.uk

Further Information

For further information about PSS services, including new service development, and PSS services not currently provided in Knowsley, please contact:

PSS Prescot Office, 62 Eccleston Street, Prescot, Merseyside, L34 5QL

Tel: 0151 426 1401

e-mail: prescot@pss.org.uk

or

PSS Knowsley Locality Lead

Julie Ledger, Service Manager

Tel: 0151 955 6117

Email: julie.ledger@pss.org.uk

VOICES IN PARTNERSHIP

 Voices in Partnership (Knowsley) is an association, which consists of people who use mental health services, those who have used the service in the past and all those who experience emotional or mental distress. These people form the body of the group and it is their voices that should be heard.

Associate membership of the group is open to professionals and workers in the mental health field, and others who have an interest in providing information, contacts, access to resources and generally provide support and encouragement to the association and its members.

The main objectives are:

• To promote the consultation and participation of all those who experience emotional of mental distress, and their carers, in the provision of services in the statutory, voluntary and private sectors.
• To raise awareness and promote education in the field of mental health, thereby reducing stigma and discrimination.

The Knowsley Voices in Partnership was originally established in 1998 as a vehicle to improve the delivery of mental health services within Knowsley.

VIP meetings are held in Halewood, Huyton, Kirkby, Prescot and Whiston, giving members the opportunity to have a say in how services are provided and to protect and improve the services that people currently receive. The association also has a social input, arranging such things as quiz nights and coach trips.

Members of the association are eligible to become service user representatives at the monthly Local Implementation Team meetings, which are attended by the Joint Commissioner for mental health services, staff from various statutory, voluntary and private sector and also carers of service users.

For more information contact

Mike Tiernan
Development Officer

Delfby Crescent Multi Agency Centre, Delfby Crescent, Kirkby, L32 8TN

Tel: 0151 443 4458

Fax: 0151 292 9012

Knowsley - Voluntary and Independent Sector Services (Mental Health)