North Ayrshire Health and Social Care Partnership

Our teams continually strive towards our vision: “Working together to provide an accessible, seamless, person-centred service that promotes good mental health and wellbeing and inspires hope.”

This will be achieved by:

• valuing individual lived experience as well as family and carer involvement
• providing a range of services when and where people need them, delivered by skilled, compassionate staff

This is a referral service. Referrals can be made by:

• your doctor
• another health and social care professional

What happens next?

After referral, we will work with you, your family and carers to assess your needs and wishes.

We will use this information to create your support plan. The plan will help us to support you towards goals and promote your recovery. You may then receive support from a service arranged by us.

Will I be charged?

There may be a charge for support services. Your care manager will discuss this with you.

You may be eligible for self-directed support. This gives you a range of options, including receiving a direct payment to enable you to buy support services of your choice.

Carers

If you care for someone with mental ill-health, you can complete an Adult Carer Support Plan or a Young Carers Statement. These give you the opportunity to identify your needs and any support you may require, to continue providing care.

Advocacy services

The support of an independent advocate can help you to express your opinions or wishes. We can provide information about advocacy services.

Helplines

You may find the following helplines useful:

Samaritans: a charity offering support to people who are suicidal or despairing, call 116 123 (lines open 24 hours)

Breathing Space: free confidential support for people experiencing low mood, depression or anxiety- call 0800 83 85 87 (Monday to Thursday, 6pm to 2am; Friday 6pm to Monday 6am).

Preventing suicide

If you are worried that someone is suicidal, please ask them. It could save their life.

We work to prevent suicide through the Choose Life initiative. Our Choose Life co-ordinator works with you, communities and organisations to raise awareness of suicide.

We help you to recognise the signs of someone in distress via training courses such as Safe Talk and Applied Suicide Intervention Skills (ASIST). This gives you the confidence to intervene.

If you (or your organisation) would like more information on suicide prevention and training, please contact our Choose Life co-ordinator on 01505 685657.

Contact us

You can get in touch with Community Adult Mental Health Service on the details below.

For urgent or out of hours mental health-related concerns, where local services are not able to be contacted directly, please visit the 'get urgent mental health help' section of the NHS Inform website. NHS national services will then be able to deal with your concern and direct you to the most appropriate national or local resources, all of which are accessible through NHS24.