CAMHS Consultancy team offer specialist expertise in services for children and young people who have emotional, behavioural and mental health problems. We have extensive experience of working at all levels in health and social care, including primary care and with education departments and the voluntary sector.
Since 2003 the team has developed processes and interventions to tackle the following tasks:
- Strategic ‘whole system’ CAMH service reviews and strategy development
- Service evaluation and redesign
- Development and implementation of new service models
- Assessment of needs
- Partnership development
- Reconfiguration reviews using option appraisal methodology
- Modernisation reviews
- CAMHS team development
- Performance management of CAMHS
- Waiting list management
- Facilitation of stakeholder events
- Support and mentoring for CAMHS managers, lead clinicians and commissioners, including Learning Sets
- User consultation
- Training needs analyses
Some of these which have been most popular with our clients and have proven to be effective in achieving change are:
Option Appraisals for CAMHS configuration
Some useful Camhs-related links include:
National Service Framework for Children, Young People and Maternity Services
DCSF: Every Child Matters - Children and Adolescent Mental Health Services
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