The Greater Manchester Universities Student Mental Health Service is a NHS service that works with local universities and students to offer longer term mental health support for complex and chronic mental health needs. Further information about the service is
here.
Students can be referred via the Wellbeing team into this service, please note VHG cannot refer in directly, and students cannot be referred in by their GPs. VHG therapists, both remote and on site, can refer students to this service via the student wellbeing team using the referral form attached to this article. Students may be referred into this service either at the end of counselling if they still need further mental health support and meet the service's criteria, or during counselling if it becomes apparent that the student needs more intensive support than short term counselling can offer.
The process for referral is as follows.
1) Discuss with the student and ensure they are happy for you to make the referral on their behalf.
2) Check the student's needs against the referral criteria listed on the referral form. Please be aware that students will need to meet at least one of these criteria to be referred.
3) Complete the referral form, preferably with the student in session so that you can obtain their views on how their current difficulties are affecting them and what they feel they need.
4) Complete a
support ticket and attach the completed form, or email the completed form to
network.clinical@vitahealthgroup.zohodesk.eu with the subject line "University of Salford GMMH service referral". If you also need to discuss whether the student remains suitable for the counselling pathway, or needs additional sessions to support them while a referral is made, please raise a clinical review/additional sessions request via MPB for this separately.
5) A member of the network clinical team will check the referral form is complete and contains the required information and will send it on to the University wellbeing team. If the team need further information about the student, they will contact you directly.