Peninsula Health

65+

Mental Health Telephone Triage – 1300 792 977

• Available 24 hours, 7 days a week
• Accessible to people of all ages
• Comprehensive and timely telephone assistance
• A review of a persons current mental health
• Provides expert review for all age groups drawing on age related expertise
• Referring the person to the most appropriate assessment and treatment option and/or assist with linkages to external service providers, where appropriate

Mental Health Consultant Liaison (MHCL)

• Provides face-to-face assessment, treatment and planning
• Within the Emergency Department and general hospital
• Provides support, advice and guidance to carers and families
• Following assessment, referrals will be made to the most appropriate treatment options and/or assist with linkages to external service providers, where appropriate

Aged Persons Community Mental Health Program

The service operates extended hours, 7 days a week

Assessment and Intensive Treatment;

• Provides assessment and assertive community short term interventions for people who are experiencing an acute phase of illness

Community Treatment;

• Provides short-medium term treatment, case management and care interventions for people with prolonged mental illness

Aged Acute Inpatient Unit (Ward 1 West)

• A specialist, multidisciplinary team that provides treatment and interventions in a hospital setting that are recovery oriented for voluntary and compulsory patients.
• For people experiencing an acute phase of mental illness until such time that the person can be treated effectively in the most appropriate setting.

Carinya

• A specialist psychogeriatric residential aged care facility
• For aged persons with significant behaviours associated with either severe dementia and/or mental illness
• Provides interim clinical treatment to enable the transfer of aged persons to a generic aged care facility

Access Planning & Suicide Prevention (APSP)

• APSP is a community based support program for people who have presented or who have contacted Peninsula Health Mental Health Service and are deemed at risk of suicide by mental health clinicians.
• Aimed at people that do not require ongoing or immediate specialist mental health provision.
• Support provided up to 90 days.

Peer Workforce

• A Peer Worker is a person who has a lived or is living with a personal experience of mental health issues.
• A Family Carer Peer Worker is a person who is in a caring role or who has previously cared for a person with mental health issues. 

Police Ambulance & Clinician  Early Response (PACER)

• A collaborative early intervention service between Peninsula Health Mental Health Service, Victoria Police and Ambulance Victoria that respond to high risk community situations.
• For people experiencing a mental health crisis, supporting access from police custody or ambulance care to the appropriate mental health care.