The Anchor

Mental Health Wellbeing Service & Dual Diagnosis Team

Based at The Anchor Wellbeing Centre, the Wellbeing Team consists of 2 Registered Mental Health nurses and a highly experienced Senior Support Worker who all have experience and qualifications in providing therapeutic interventions for those suffering with mental health problems including: anxiety, depression, PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder), Bipolar Affective Disorder, OCD

The team works alongside other mental health, drug/alcohol counselling and related services to provide all-round support.

We also provide a Community Recovery Group every Thursday 1:00pm-2:30pm, run by volunteers Frank and Joe, who both have a wealth of knowledge and experience in the field of recovery. Clients are offered this group whilst waiting for their referral to be processed, but it’s also open to anybody that’s interested.

Hoarding and Decluttering Support

Our ongoing commitment to Community Health and Wellbeing has led to the creation of our compassionate hoarding and decluttering support service across Waveney.

Hoarding can be triggered by many factors and our dedicated support team understands this. We embrace an holistic approach, which is sensitive to each individual we support.

We help clients to understand what factors may cause them to compulsively acquire and store items they may not necessarily require. We provide decluttering and clearance relief, whilst delivering ongoing wraparound support and therapies if required to positively assist individuals in maintaining future physical and mental wellbeing.

View our informative introductory leaflet here, which includes information on identifying symptoms.

Referrals are welcomed by Local Authority and Adult Social Care, GP’s, Social Prescribing, Police, Self-referrals and/or from Relatives/Friends. To make a referral simple email hoarding@accessct.org or call/message 07884 750520

Social Prescribing

The Trust is currently delivering Leiston Links, a social prescribing service developed with Leiston Together and the East Suffolk Communities Team. The Link Worker is based at Leiston GP practice and linked to the Local Area Coordinator (LAC) for Leiston and Saxmundham funded by SCC and ESP. The project launched in January 2018 and is projected to run through to June 2019.

The scheme utilises the local network of partners as part of Leiston Together to actively examine possibilities of developing new referral pathways with external agencies. We have already linked up with Jobcentre Plus and discussions are ongoing with enabling Adult Community Services (ACS) and Care Navigators to also refer. The Link Worker has made connections with local community groups, in particular for surrounding villages so that patients can be signposted to activities local to them, such as Parkrun, gardening clubs or yoga to help manage stress and anxiety.

In addition, we will provide home visits for follow-up meetings, if the patient has issues accessing transport, and as part of these meetings we make sure the Link Worker helps the patients to identify possible transport options.

The Trust is also a current member of the Social Prescribing Network and have attended the network’s inaugural International Research Conference in Salford, June 2018 which explored common frameworks of non-clinical community interventions.