Second Step Wellbeing Services

Bristol Wellbeing College

We provide a wide range of solution focused, psychoeducational workshops and courses for people to learn to take control of their mental wellbeing.

We deliver online via Zoom (with individual tech support) and face to face in community venues across Bristol. Workshops and courses will typically have no more than 10 attendees and are interactive. Our founding principle is ‘experts by experience’ and our material is written and developed in collaboration with our learner involvement group, and practitioners who are experts in their fields.

Eligibility

• Anyone in Bristol aged 18+
• Adults in wider BNSSG (ie, North Somerset and South Glos) who have accessed mental health services in Bristol

Referral 

• Professionals can complete a referral form (contact request) also available as an EMIS template
• Individuals can enrol and book independently via our website and download our prospectus 
• Learners are welcome to attend with a support worker, friend of family member; just let us know in advance

Please Note

• Our workshops and courses are colour coded to reflect different points in individual recovery journeys. Please take time to consider which workshops are most suitable or get in touch; we are happy to help.
• Patients can attend alongside talking therapy or other intervention. However, please be aware our service does not provide group therapy or group support.
• Attendance must be pre-booked; we do not accept ‘walk-ins’.
• Professionals and individuals can call 0117 914 5498 or email: bristol.wellbeing.college@second-step.co.uk for more information.

North Somerset Wellbeing Service

North Somerset Wellbeing provides a variety of FREE workshops, courses and group activities which are available to people who are aged 18+, living in North Somerset or have a GP in North Somerset. Our programme uses wellbeing college style techniques designed to explore, improve and maintain our mental health and wellbeing. These are delivered in-person and online and range in length from 1-2 hours. We are happy to support people to build wellbeing skills and deliver learning about how to improve mental health, however, we are not a crisis service.

Please visit our website for more details and to see our current prospectus:

www.second-step.co.uk/wellbeing-health/north-somerset-wellbeing-service

Some of our most popular topics include:

• Understanding and Managing Emotional Intensity (course)
• Anger Management (course)
• Wellbeing groups in Weston-s-Mare, Nailsea and Online
• Mindful Arts & Crafts in Weston-s-Mare and Nailsea
• Rediscovering a Healthy Relationship with Food

Booking is quick and easy:

• Online - Booking Form | North Somerset Wellbeing Service | Second Step

We are more than happy to support learners to complete a booking form and we can be contacted via:

• Email: NSWellbeing@second-step.co.uk
• Phone: 0333 023 3504
• Text: 07520 661 482

Recovery Navigators

Recovery Navigators work with GP surgeries across the South West to support people who are struggling with long-term and sometimes complex mental health difficulties. 

Recovery Navigators offer short-term support over a few months helping people build their resilience and independence.  They aim to give coordinated, person-centred care, helping people get the right support, at the right time.

How to Refer

They support people aged 18 and over. Patients need to be referred to a recovery navigator by a professional working in primary health care. This could be a GP, nurse, care coordinator, health navigator or pharmacist.

• Bristol

Bristol - Inner City and East (ICE) 12/09/24: Please note ICE Recovery Navigators are currently closed to new referrals. We have been unable to get further info than is on their autoreply.

Please complete the Referral Form and email to secondstep.icereferrals@nhs.net

• South Glos

Network 4 - South Gloucestershire

Please refer via Social Prescribing (provided by Southern Brooks Community Paternership) for triage.

• North Somerset

Pier Health - Weston-Super-Mare, Worle and villages

Please complete the Referral Form and email to secondstep.pierhealthreferrals@nhs.net 

Efforts are made to ensure the accuracy and agreement of these guidelines, including any content uploaded, referred to or linked to from the system. However, BNSSG ICB cannot guarantee this. This guidance does not override the individual responsibility of healthcare professionals to make decisions appropriate to the circumstances of the individual patient, in consultation with the patient and/or guardian or carer, in accordance with the mental capacity act, and informed by the summary of product characteristics of any drugs they are considering. Practitioners are required to perform their duties in accordance with the law and their regulators and nothing in this guidance should be interpreted in a way that would be inconsistent with compliance with those duties.

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