RCOMH Partner - South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
The South London and Maudsley NHS
Foundation Trust (often referred to as SLaM) are proud to be key
partners in the Research Centre for Occupation in Mental
Health. SLaM is a large mental health Trust providing
mental health and substance misuse services in Croydon, Lambeth,
Lewisham and Southwark; substance misuse services in Bexley,
Greenwich and Bromley; aswell as specialist services for
people from across the U.K. It is a cross between a
large local mental health trust and a teaching hospital, and is a
world leader in research, working in partnership with the Institute
of Psychiatry, King’s College London.
The
Occupational Therapy service forms a significant part of workforce,
who work in, and are integral to, a range of the services across
the Trust. The interdisciplinary focus of RCOMH mirrors the
ethos of the SLaM workforce. SLaM are thrilled to be involved
in a centre that is this collaboration of themes rather than a
purely professional perspective. For all clinicians research
should be embedded into practice; for clinicians working within
SLaM it is part of our core business given it is home to the only
mental health Biomedical Research Centre in the UK, thus, the
opportunity to enter into the RCOMH partnership is timely. It
is excited by the aims of the centre which are to develop research
in the broader area of occupation and mental health and the true
commitment to active service user participation and the global
perspective.
SLaM are scoping the research capacity building opportunities
within its OT workforce and strategic avenues in which to pursue
these ambitions within RCOMH’s 3 work streams. Gabrielle
Richards, Professional Head of the OT Service and Chair of the
Social Inclusion, Recovery and Rehabilitation Board for the Trust
says: ‘This is a fantastic opportunity to be at the cutting edge of
research in this innovative collaboration’.
Please click on the link to access the SLaM internet site:
http://www.slam.nhs.uk/
http://www.otservices.slam.nhs.uk/