Perinatal Mental Health Liaison Team
The Perinatal Mental Health Liaison Team has been introduced by Manx Care to ensure mothers and their families receive the mental health support they need from their child’s conception until their child is 2 years old.
The team is there to help prevent any significant long-term negative impact on the mother, their child and their family during the perinatal period. It creates a unique opportunity to support and treat mental health problems which helps to strengthen families, ensures children have the best start in life and reduces the risk of unnecessary suffering, isolation and suicide.
The Perinatal Mental Health Liaison Team can be accessed by self-referral or by referrals from professionals involved in your care. Once completed please return the form by email PNMHLT@gov.im. The team will get back to you as soon as possible, however, it might not been the same day.
If you feel you are unable to keep yourself or someone else safe, please call 999.
If you require urgent support due to a significant deterioration in your mental health and/or an increase in psychological distress, please call the Crisis Response and Home Treatment Team on +44 1624 642860.
Where you can get help
Your Midwife and/or Health Visitor are there to support you and your family during this special time. If you would like additional support, you can speak to your Midwife or Health Visitor during your appointments or you can contact them by:
Telephone: +44 1624 650030 (Midwifery)
Telephone: +44 1624 642650 (Health Visiting)
Your General Practitioner (GP) is trained to support you with your mental health and is able to refer you to specialist Mental Health Services if required. Contact your GP practice to make an appointment to see your GP.
Qwell is a free to use (NHS funded) instant, anonymous online counselling service with built in safeguards to ensure your safety. You can have live 1 to 1 chats or to message a practitioner. It also has a resource library which includes information on maternal mental health, men’s mental health, parenting, relationships, anxiety, depression, grief and loss, neurodiversity, stress, addiction, self-care and work. It requires you to sign up through their website, which is very easy. It only requires you to share that you live on the Isle of Man, which area you live in North, South, East or West, your year and month of birth, you will be asked your gender and ethnicity which you can prefer not say and to create a user name and password.
The Community Wellbeing Service offers a range of brief counselling and/or therapies interventions that aim to enable individuals to manage their wellbeing more effectively. The self-referral form can be accessed from the Community Wellbeing Service webpage, or by telephone +44 1624 642540.
