Mental Health Team

The Community Mental Health Team is a multidisciplinary Team comprising of Medics, Clinical Psychologists, Nurses, Occupational Therapists, Cognitive Behaviour Therapists, Peer Support Workers and admin staff. 

The CMHT works with adults who have severe or enduring mental health difficulties and provides medical and evidence based psychological approaches to encourage positive mental health. Specialist mental health assessment and interventions aims to maintain an individual within their community and support recovery.

Access to the service is via GP referral.

The CMHT operate Monday to Friday 9am-5pm.

The Mental Health Crisis Team operates seven days a week Monday-Friday 5-8pm Saturday–Sunday 9am-5pm-, completing assertive outreach to individuals who are known to the CMHT to prevent admission to hospital or to aid the discharge process from inpatient mental health wards

Out-of-hours mental health services are available 24 hours a day, all year round via NHS 24 - call 111 or visit the NHS 24 website.

Kirkintilloch Health and Care Centre
10 Saramago Street
Kirkintilloch
East Dunbartonshire
G66 3BF

Tel: 0141 232 8200

Woodlands Mental Health Resource Centre
15-17 Waterloo Close
Kirkintilloch
East Dunbartonshire
G66 2HL.

Tel: 0141 232 7300

Glenkirk Centre
129 Drumchapel Road
Glasgow
G15 6PX

Tel: 0141 232 1300

Larkfield Community Mental Health Team
Kirkintilloch Health and Care Centre
10 Saramago Street
Kirkintilloch
East Dunbartonshire
G66 3BF

Tel: 0141 232 8200

Arndale Mental Health Resource Centre
80-90 Kinfauns Drive
Glasgow
G15 7TS

Tel: 0141 211 6184

Out of hours

Tel: 0845 650 1730

Mental Health Officers (MHOs) are trained mental health social workers who provide a statutory service. This means that the law states that East Dunbartonshire Council must provide this service throughout the year. MHOs are account­able to the local authority that employs them but their assessments are independent. They are also independent of health service staff. MHOs can provide support and advice to service users on a range of issues, aimed at promoting their recovery and maintaining their links with the community. They work in partnership, and have links with a range of agencies and services including the Joint Learning Disabilities Team, Older People Team, Alcohol and Drug Service and the Children and Families Social Work Team.

The main pieces of statutory legislation that MHOs work to are:

• Mental Health (Care & Treatment) (Scotland) Act 2003
• Adults with Incapacity (Scotland) Act 2000.

MHOs play an essential role in the Mental Health (Care & Treatment) (Scotland) Act 2003 and are required to work to the principles within this act. Some examples of what MHO's do:

• Involvement in Joint assessments with doctors to determine whether an individual needs compulsory care and treatment in hospital or at home in the community. As part of the process, they will determine if alternative options can be put in place to prevent compulsory measures
• Requirement to help people who are detained under the act to access independent advocacy services and to identify and nominate a 'Named Person, if they wish to
• Requirement to produce a Social Circumstances Report (SCR). The SCR is intended to provide a fuller picture of an individual's circumstances and a copy is sent to the Mental Welfare Commission and the Responsible Medical Officer (RMO)
• The MHO on some occasions might be requested to write reports to court
• If an individual needs to have long term care and treatment, either in hospital or the community, the MHO might need to make an application for a Compulsory Treatment Order (CTO) and present it to a Mental Health Tribunal
• Request that the local authority carries out a needs assessment for either an adult or a child affected by mental health problems. The local authority then has a duty to undertake this assessment within a specified time period
• Involvement in reviewing treatment and progress and making joint decisions with doctors on whether the grounds for the CTO continue to be met
• They may be required to write reports for the court where individuals with mental health problems are involved in criminal proceedings
• In exceptional circumstances, they may need to apply for warrants in order to gain access to an individual in their own home and to arrange a medical examination.

MHOs have a number of functions under the Adults with Incapacity Act, in particular a role in assessment and report writing in relation to applications for welfare guardianship and intervention orders.

The MHO duties under the act include:

• Offer information and advice regarding the Act to professionals, service users and families
• Contribute to AWI case conferences when appropriate
• Write specialist MHO reports to accompany applications and may attend court hearings.

Further information about the roles and responsibilities of MHOs under both Acts can be obtained from the Social Work Mental Health Team or the Mental Welfare Commission website.

If you are not satisfied with the service, please talk to the MHO or Mental Health Team Manager about your concerns.

A Leaflet-Comments, Suggestions and Complaints-Is also available from SWHQ.

Alternatively you can contact the Mental Welfare Commission for independent advice and assistance.

Social Work Mental Health Team
Kirkintilloch Health and Care Centre
IO Saramago Street,
Kirkintilloch
East Dunbartonshire,
G66 3BF
Monday-Friday 9am-5pm
Tel: 0141 232 8217

Mental Health Tribunal
Tel: 01698 390000
Visit the website

Mental Welfare Commission
Tel: 0800 389 6809 or 0131 313 8777
Visit the website

Ceartas Advocacy Service
Tel: 0141 775 0433
Visit the website

Office of Public Guardian
Tel: 01324 678300
Visit the website

Partners Emergency Social Work Services
Tel:0300 343 1505 

Challenges with mental health have touched every life in Scotland: from a young person struggling in school, or a colleague absent from work to an elderly relative living with dementia. We have all seen, and often personally felt and experienced, the impact of mental health problems.

Many mental health problems will be preventable, and almost all are treatable, so people can either fully recover or manage their conditions successfully and live as healthy, happy and productive lives as possible.

Our guiding ambition for mental health is simple but, if realised, will change and save lives - that we must prevent and treat mental health problems with the same commitment, passion and drive as we do with physical health problems.

That means working to improve:

• Prevention and early intervention
• Access to treatment, and joined up accessible services
• The physical wellbeing of people with mental health problems
• Rights, information use, and planning.

We want to create a Scotland where all stigma and discrimination related to mental health is challenged, and our collective understanding of how to prevent and treat mental health problems is increased. We want to see a nation where mental healthcare is person-centred and recognises the life-changing benefits of fast, effective treatment. We want a Scotland where we act on the knowledge that failing to recognise, prioritise and treat mental health problems costs not only our economy, but harms individuals and communities. In short, we share the ambition that you should only have to ask once to get help fast.

In the last decade mental health services have changed dramatically, with excellent work from NHS Board staff, primary care practitioners, councils and third sector organisations, making life-changing, and life-saving, interventions every day.

But we have the ambition to go further, and we know this ambition is shared across Scotland. Through this strategy we set out 40 initial actions to better join up our services, to refocus these and to deliver them when they are needed.

These actions include:

• Increasing the mental health workforce by 800 additional mental health
  workers in our hospitals, GP surgeries, prisons and police stations
• Improving support for preventative and less intensive services (Tiers 1 and 2 CAMHS) to tackle issues earlier
• Reviewing the role of counselling services in schools
• Testing and evaluating the most effective and sustainable models of supporting mental health in primary care
• Establishing a bi-annual forum of mental health stakeholders to help guide the implementation of actions in the coming years.

Our efforts must deliver on a human rights-based approach, so that people in the
most marginalised of situations are prioritised in achieving health.

We can’t achieve a sea change in mental health alone. This strategy also underpins how we will work in partnership with others to champion the better Scotland our people deserve.

Maureen Watt MSP
Minister for Mental Health

Read the Mental Health Strategy in full by selecting this link.