Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS Foundation Trust is the main provider of a wide range of specialist health and social care services to individuals and their families in Sheffield including: older people, people with learning disabilities, people with physical impairments and/or sensory impairments, people with complex health needs, people with behavioural issues, people with mental health issues, people with drug and alcohol issues, people with gender dysphoria issues and carers.

Services Provided:

STEP (Short Term Educational Programme).  The service offers a range of recovery and preventative focused educational programmes primarily to service users that have identified short term needs. These are facilitated by an experienced and well trained social care team. The service offers a variety of psycho-education groups and a Recovery Education Programme.

The aim of the service is to build resilience and help individual to develop positive coping strategies and to enable them to manage their mental health and prevent the need for longer term support. This also supports development, so that individuals can access mainstream activities within the community which may include support to return to work, education, volunteering and employment.

The service incurs no cost and is primarily for service users who do not meet the eligibility criteria for a Social Care Package.