CAMHS

When a young person is admitted into our services, our main aim is to help them to stabilise and achieve discharge to the least restrictive environment as soon as possible. Our services support young people who are experiencing a variety of acute and complex mental health problems, in a welcoming and nurturing environment. Therapeutic support is provided by a diverse and specialist multi-disciplinary team, who apply our care model, myPath.

myPath is our unique overarching care model that monitors service user engagement levels, manages their records, assesses their progress and formulates a personalised and dynamic care plan with measurable targets. Within our Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services, myPath is designed to make sure that young people have the chance to be fully involved in their treatment pathway from admission to discharge, whilst receiving access to high quality education through specialist facilities.

Our staff teams understand how to give individuals the appropriate support using tailored programmes of care. For each young person, a daily risk assessment is completed, which enables dynamic responses to individual presentation within any 24 hour period and encourages positive risk-taking through robust co-produced management plans and longer term risk management tools. Each young person has an individualised activity timetable built around essential skills of personal interest and a care plan that is designed with the young person and reviewed with them on a weekly basis.

In addition to national outcome measurements, we also measure progress by using our specialist outcome tool, Child and Adolescent Global Assessment of Progress (CA-GAP), which collates all aspects of a young person’s progress from admission to discharge and assists us with identifying areas of focus when care planning. myPath promotes the combination of mental wellbeing and stability with educational needs to support young people to return to full-time education, employment or training, wherever possible.