The Gleadless and Heeley Neighbourhood Mental Health Centre is a new place where people can get help with their mental health. It will offer services to help people feel better and stay well. The centre will be open to everyone in the local community, including those who need support and their carers. It is a pilot programme funded by money from NHS England.

The pilot is a special project to try new ways of providing mental health services in the community. It aims to make it easier for people to get help close to home. The pilot will use ideas from other countries to create a better system for mental health care. The Gleadless and Heeley Neighbourhood Mental Health Centre is one of six pilots across England. 

The centre will be located at Newfield Green in the Gleadless and Heeley neighbourhood. There will be two buildings:

1. Library and Terry Wright Community Centre: The library and the Terry Wright Community Centre will continue to be part of the local community, accessible to all. The building will be refurbished to include space for mental health services. It will still be used by the community for other activities.
2. Newfield Green Clinic: This building will be expanded to provide more rooms for mental health services. Rooms that are not currently in use will be utilised. 

No community spaces will be removed from public use. The library and Terry Wright Community Centre will continue to be available for everyone.
 

The centre will offer lots of benefits, including:

• Easy access to mental health services close to home.
• Support for carers and families.
• A safe place for people in crisis.
• Better coordination between different health services.
• Community involvement in designing and running the centre.
   

One of the aims of the pilot is that it will make care simpler for people in Gleadless and Heeley. Teams that already offer mental health services in Sheffield will work together to deliver care at the new centre. This will simplify the way care is delivered and make it easier to access.

The teams that will work out of the new centre include:

• Urgent and crisis team
• Crisis Resolution & Home Treatment Team
• Early Intervention Team
• Older Adults CMHT
• CERT Team
• Community Mental Health Team (South Care Group 4)
• Primary & Community Mental Health Team (Heeley Plus team)

The centre will open in three phases. We are aiming for phase three to be completed by August 2025.

• Phase 1: Newfield Green Clinic site opens. Service users will be seen from Monday to Friday at this time
• Phase 2: Library/Community Centre site opens. Because we will have space at two sites we will be able to run services 24/7
• Phase 3: Hospitality beds open

The centre is a partnership between several organisations, including:

• Sheffield Health & Social Care NHS Foundation Trust
• Primary Care Sheffield
• Heeley Plus Primary Care Network
• Heeley Trust
• Synergy VCSE Mental Health Alliance
• Rethink Mental Illness
• Sheffield Flourish
• Sheffield City Council
• South Yorkshire Integrated Care System

The Gleadless and Heeley Neighbourhood Mental Health Centre is funded through a special pilot program by NHS England. The pilot has received approximately £5 million in funding for a two-year period. This money will be used for refurbishing the buildings, co-production work, and expanding existing services. The goal is to create a lasting impact even if the funding is not extended beyond the pilot period.