Homeless and New Arrivals Health team

Description

The Homeless and New Arrivals Health team are a primary care multi-disciplinary team which includes Mental Health Practitioners, Nurses, a Psychological Therapist and Support Worker.

We are an outreach team who offer a range of support and services to those in need, this includes:

• Mental health support – TB education and awareness
• Signposting – latent TB testing
• Household assessments – linking in with other services
• Psychological therapy – advocacy

Criteria

Mental health

• Those who are homeless, at risk of homelessness or living in unsecure tenure and are experiencing mental health difficulties and Asylum seekers in need of signposting and/or experiencing mental health difficulties.

Latent TB screening

• Those who are under 35 years old, who were born in countries with a TB rate of over 150 people per 100,000 and have lived in the UK for less than 5 years.
• Those seeking asylum whose journey increases their risk of contracting TB.

Referrals

Self-referrals and referrals from voluntary, statutory, independent services and GP practices via post/fax or electronically from SystmOne.

Please feel free to call our team to discuss a client you would like to refer if you are unsure of our criteria.

Contact

Telephone: 01274 227555
Fax – 01274 323402

Address: Homeless and New Arrivals, Bevan House, Level 3, 16 Piccadilly, Bradford, BD1 3LS

Please be aware we are a community based team so are not always in the office, please leave a voice mail with your name, date of birth, NHS number, a contact number and short message, and we will get back to you as soon as possible.