The Association for Primary Mental Health Work and Training (CAMHS)”
Conference
Theme: Child and Adolescent Mental Health –
“What works in early intervention?”
Friday 20 November 2015
At
Blackpool Zoo
Contents
Programme
Friday 20 November 2015
Workshop Schedules
Workshop 1
Workshop 2
Workshop 3
Speakers Biographies
David Eaton RMN, Dip N, BSC (Hons) MSc
Kathy Evans
Andrew Starr
Fiona Pender
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PROGRAMME
Friday 20 November
09.00 Arrival, Registration and Coffee
09.30 Opening Remarks: Dave Eaton, Chair of The Association for Primary Mental Health Work and Training (CAMHS)
09.45 Keynote Speaker: Anne O’Herlihy Child & Adolescent Mental Health Project Manager, NHS England
10.45 Coffee
11.15 Keynote Presentation: Lisa Williams Head of Commissioning Support, YoungMinds
12.00 Keynote Presentation: Gurjit Basi, Sensory-Motor Psychotherapist, Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust
12.45 Lunch – Stands
13.45 Workshops x 3
14.45 Networking (Movement between workshops)
15.00 Workshops x 3
16.00 Networking and Coffee – don’t forget your evaluation form!
16.30 Closing Remarks, Dave Eaton, Chair of The Association for Primary Mental Health Work and Training (CAMHS)
16.45 Finish
Workshop Schedules
Each workshop will be delivered once; please see below for the workshop number. Workshop places have been allocated on a first come, first served basis
Workshop 1
An Early Intervention collaboration between CAMHS Primary Mental Health Workers, Health Visitors and Public Health School Nurses
Rhian Davies, Kate Swinburn, Elizabeth Brown
North Tyneside Primary Mental Health Work team (CAMHS), Health Visiting (HV), and Public Health School Nursing (PHSN) are working in partnership utilising the nationally recognised Solihull model to enhance service delivery to children and families across the borough.
Solihull is a model based on Psychoanalytic theory, brain development and behavioural themes in a practical framework developed in 1996 to enhance practitioner’s skills and knowledge in the emotional health of Children and Young People.
North Tyneside Health Visitors reviewed policy and current practice in 2009 and highlighted the need to enrich the quality of the Service they were providing in regard to Children and Young Peoples emotional wellbeing. NMET funding and support via NHCT enabled them to source Solihull training for all staff.
Ensuring a Quality robust sustainable approach was key, in recognition of the implementation of a new model required ensuring staff support was available and systems were developed was fundamental. Health Visiting worked in partnership with North Tyneside Child and Adolescent Primary Mental Health Workers (CAMHS PMHW) to develop Training models and supervision structures.
A clear framework is now in place with positive feedback from all staff involved. The Solihull approach is embedded in Health visiting practice across North Tyneside. Monthly supervision is provided by CAMHS Primary Mental Health Worker. Evaluations to date show staff feel supported and empowered by this framework. They feel the model has enriched their practice. The Partnership approach with CAMHS has developed relationships across agencies, created shared understanding, common language on emotional wellbeing and overall strengthened Health Visitors confidence in delivering the programme.
Anecdotal feedback from families is that they find the approach less intrusive, more collaborative and empowering. North Tyneside feedback echoes National Solihull evaluations in that:
· Health Visitors feel more positive , confident and knowledgeable in emotional wellbeing
· Consistency of practice is enhanced for families
· Assessments and interventions are more holistic
North Tyneside model is innovative and pioneering in that joint partnership approach and clear supervision framework around Children and Young Peoples mental health has been developed and implemented.
The positive implementation of the Health Visitor approach to Solihull has now been further developed. The Training has been delivered to, Children’s Centre Staff, Increasing access to psychological Therapies (IAPT) staff and midwives.
The next planned phase is rollout to all Public Health School Nurses (PHSN) in North Tyneside. The framework for training and partnership approach across CAMHS and HV will be transposed across PHSN approach to Solihull.
Developing and skilling up the workforce to have a collaborative, consistent model for working with families where emotional difficulties are identified will empower both the workforce and the families.
To ensure sustainability and continued development of this Partnership model next steps are to Train more CAMHS PMHW’s , to share the model across our Health Visiting and Public Health School Nursing colleagues in Northumberland and to work closely with GP’s to increase their understanding and awareness of the availability of this empowering approach for families.
Workshop 2
The Highland PMHW team throughGIRFEC and health and social care integration – how we got better at early intervention
Emma Campbell
In Highland we have worked hard to ensure early staff within universal services to be more aware of their role in supporting young people's mental health and identifying problems at an earlier stage. The Scottish Needs Assessment Programme (SNAP) Report on Child and Adolescent Mental Health (2003) highlighted that all organisations and agencies had a responsibility to meet the mental health needs of children and young people. Children and Young People's Mental Health: A Framework for Promotion, Prevention and Care (2004) detailed how this would be supported and highlighted the responsibilities of those in education, social care and health especially tier 2 and 3 CAMHS.
In Highland the past 7 years have been instrumental in ensuring that we get better at early intervention.
The implementation of getting it right for every child (GIRFEC) and the Highland Practice Model between 2006 – 2009 has provided a structure for everyone in children's services to work around children/young people and families as well as a shared assessment and terminology.
In 2012 integration of health and social care happened with all universal children's health services being transferred from NHS highland to highland council (PMHW’s included) . This has led to major changes for the team and for the first time since the role was established we all have the same line manager and are managed within Care and Learning directorate within Highland Council. Our Head of Service also oversees Educational Psychology and other services within Additional Support Needs.
We have also through this come together as a team and now meet on a regular basis, which had previously been a challenge due to the rural aspect but also due to management structures. We have also produced Practice Guidance and are involved in developing the service through our improvement plan.
This workshop would be a discussion about the journey the Highland PMHW team have taken over the past 7 years and how integrated working has enhanced the opportunities to work more closely with universal services and the structures and guidelines that ensure that early interventions happen in a timely manner whether at a consultation level or the various interventions available.
The focus will also be on how the team has coped with change and adapted to the various challenges along the way.
Workshop 3
The future of Primary mental Health - What's the model?
Andrew Starr
The workshop would describe the current Tiered model, and why it was introduced (to cut waiting times). Then describe the model proposed in 'Future in Mind'.
1) How can early intervention and prevention be retained as a priority in CAMHS when the services are so hard pressed? (or with limited resources, how can PMHWs maximise their impact across the whole of Tier 1 and 2?)
2) What partnerships are working that can help CAMHS retaining a PMHW focus?
3) What are the 'red lines' that PMHW needs to hold to in order to keep the role focused on early intervention/ Prevention?
Speakers Biographies
David Eaton RMN, Dip N, Bsc (Hons) MSc
David has worked in the field of Child and Adolescent Mental Health for over 25 years.David first commenced his work in CAMHS at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital Liverpool in 1989, both in an inpatient and community setting. He then began working in Blackpool in 1994 and in 1998 established one of the first Primary Mental Health Services in the country. From 1998 to 2008 he was Head of Tier 2 CAMHS.
David is a founder member of the National Association of Primary Mental Health Workers for Children and Adolescents and currently Chair and Director.
David has supported the implementation of several Primary Mental Health Services for CAMHS in the North West and shared his experience with many services across the UK.
David has worked as a Senior Lecturer in CAMHS at the University of Central Lancashire, developing and training Graduate Primary Mental Health Workers in CAMHS. David has conducted and published a number of research studies into the PMHW and Graduate Primary Mental Health Worker role.
David has co-developed a training programme designed for PMHWs and delivered this in the North West and other parts of the UK.
In 2009 David was seconded to the National Academy for Parenting Practitioners as a Service Development Advisor working across England. He is currently the Service Manager for Blackpool Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service.
Anne O’Herlihy, Child & Adolescent Mental Health Project Manager, NHS England
As Project Manager for the Children and Young People’s Mental Health Programme in the Medical Directorate within NHS England, Anne’s role involves supporting the CYP IAPT service transformation programme to embed the CYP IAPT principles within CAMHS partnerships, and project lead the CYP eating disorder programme, their participation contracts, training curricula development, and related mental health work within NHS England.
Prior to this post, Anne worked at the Royal College of Psychiatrists Centre for Quality Improvement (CCQI), where she managed a number of CAMHS health service research projects (NICAPS, 2001; CIRS, 2007; COSI-CAPS, 2007) and quality improvement and accreditation programmes. During her time at RCPsych CCQI, she helped to establish the Quality Network for Inpatient CAMHS (2001-2003) and managed (with professionals and stakeholders) the development of service standards for the safe and appropriate care of young people on adult wards (2009), a crisis and/or intensive response within community CAMHS for the Quality Network for Community CAMHS (2010), and practice standards for young people with substance misuse problems (2011).
Lisa Williams, Head of Commissioning Support, YoungMinds
Lisa Williams specialises in commissioning support and whole system improvement for children and young peoples’ emotional and mental health systems, from earlier intervention through to specialist care.
Currently Lisa works with YoungMinds both as a commissioning support consultant and as Project Technical Lead providing support to 12 local areas participating in the Big Lottery’s HeadStart resilience focused programme. Previously she was a founding member of the national consortium BOND (Better Outcomes, New delivery), through which Lisa developed and delivered bespoke programmes of training, consultancy and support to commissioners, schools and not-for-profit providers of early intervention mental health support across the country since 2011.
Lisa’s previous posts include Deputy Head at the Department of Health’s National Support Team for CAMHS; County Council Assistant Director and children’s services commissioner, CAMHS commissioner, South East regional lead for Teenage Pregnancy, public health specialist, HIV service manager, various practitioner roles in adult mental health, youth offending and community services, and counsellor.
Lisa is also a Community Fellow at the University of Brighton and has collaborated on numerous projects to strengthen the links between research, policy and practice in the field of children’s resilience over many years. She recently developed the ‘Academic Resilience’ approach with Professor Angie Hart designed to help schools ‘close the gap’ for their most disadvantaged pupils which has been adopted by YoungMinds and can be found on their website.
Gurjit Basi, Sensory-Motor Psychotherapist, Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust
Gurjit Basi has had various careers’ including working in Derbyshire as: a police officer, residential child care worker, social worker, senior trainer, and in the NSPCC as a therapeutic worker and service coordinator for children with sexually harmful behaviours. Gurjit was a critical reader of the AIM Framework for the Assessment of Adolescents who Display Sexually Harmful Behavior (g-map).
Gurjit currently works for the Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust as a Primary Mental Health Worker. Gurjit uses a biopsychosocial model to assess children and in the treatment of children and young people he uses a combination of therapeutic approaches in both the direct and group work. Gurjit works with clients who present with mental health problems and as an advance trauma therapist (certified sensorimotor psychotherapist) with children affected by trauma and complex trauma.
Gurjit Basi is the only neuro-sequential model of therapeutics in education trainer in the United Kingdom and works one day a week at Ellesmere College Leicester who cater for children who have learning disabilities.
Gurjit has been a keynote speaker at the National Organisation for the Treatment of Abusers (NOTA); is an invited guest speaker at the University of Leicester where he presents on mindfulness and its applications for children and families to social workers and presented a workshop at CONFER’s ‘psychological Trauma & the Child’ conference relating to his work as a certified sensorimotor psychotherapist.
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Chair: Dave Eaton
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