Overview
The community care unit is a home-like environment where consumers share a unit with one another. They are given the opportunity to learn and/or re-learn everyday skills that are required for living successfully in the community whilst receiving continuing treatment to assist with recovery.
Getting here
Find us at:
131-135 Synnot Street
Werribee Victoria 3030
For more information on getting here, visit Community Care Unit .
Your appointment
What to do before
Referral to this service is through your treating mental health clinician.
More information
Team Composition
The facility is staffed 24 hours a day and offers a multidisciplinary team. The team consists of:
- consultant psychiatrist
- psychiatric registrar
- registered psychiatric nurses
- occupational therapists
- social workers.
For health professionals
The community care unit provides medium term residential rehabilitation and treatment services to people with a serious mental illness and significant psycho-social disability, to assist them in their recovery.
The residents are treated by a multi-disciplinary team.
The service accepts people under current treatment within the mental health program who require support and rehabilitation in order to improve their capacity for independent living in the community.
Procedural information
Assessment, treatment and recovery services.
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