Model of clinical service delivery
The TMHC's Clinical Consultation and Assessment Service provides specialist clinical intervention for CALD people regardless of gender, age or migration status and for a wide range of mental health problems, from first onset symptoms of depression and anxiety or other disorders through to assisting people living with a chronic mental illness. An important target population remains families and other carers of persons with a mental health problem or mental illness.
The overall aim of the Clinical Service is to work with other sectors of the health and mental health systems to enhance access to, and delivery of, quality mental health services to the diverse community of NSW. The TMHC service delivery model promotes the concept of sharing scarce resources without duplicating what is already available through the mainstream mental health system.
The core of the TMHC model is the utilisation of skills of experienced CALD clinicians (sessional workers). These clinicians are engaged to work with the TMHC through a contract for sessional clinical work.
In this way the Service has the flexibility to respond to changes in demand from existing groups or respond to new demands, from smaller or emerging groups, by recruiting to increase sessional worker numbers to cater for these needs. This also allows the Service to operate without waiting lists and clients can be seen within one
