Living Well Salford is a community service created in partnership between START, Mind in Salford, Six Degrees & Greater Manchester Mental Health Trust. It is a multi-agency team, who come together to provide positive, humanistic and safe experiences for those people experiencing poor mental health who do not meet the threshold for community mental health services.
Living Well focuses on developing new ways for people to access support which:
• recognises people’s strengths and potential
• is designed by people with lived experience, service leaders, clinicians and commissioners
• is based in community settings and is easy to access
• supports people with relationships, housing, debt, employment, connecting with their communities
• is provided by communities, including the voluntary sector, social enterprises and statutory services
The Living Well Salford team is made up of both clinical and non-clinical staff and Recovery Workers hosted by START are a core part of the workforce. Recovery Workers are based in a variety of community venues within each neighbourhood of the city, and meet with people wherever it feels best for those they are supporting.
The team also includes Peer Support Workers, Occupational Therapists, Social Worker, Primary Care Network Mental Health Practitioners, a Consultant Psychiatrist, a Volunteer Coordinator and a Community Connector.
The development of Living Well aligns with a key priority in the NHS Long Term Plan around transforming and realigning community mental health services with primary care networks (PCNs), creating ‘new and integrated models of primary and community mental health care’ by 2023/24.
