Core CAMHS is a team of trained Mental Health Practitioners and Assistant Practitioners from various clinical backgrounds including Mental Health Nurses, Social Workers, Psychologists and Psychiatrists.

This is the team you would usually see on your first visit to CAMHS.This team works with children, young people, parents & carers to assess the mental health of children and adolescents who have been identified as potentially having moderate to severe mental health needs.

Visit our my first appointment page. to learn more about what to expect on your first visit to CAMHS. 

The CAMHS Crisis and Enhanced Treatment Teams (CCETT) are based in Lincoln and Boston and cover the whole county.

The staff members in the teams are social workers and nurses by background and aim to support young people in a mental health crisis through providing assessment an intensive home treatment. This includes supporting young people experiencing thoughts of suicide and engaging in significant self harming behaviours.  By working with young people and their families and carers, we aim to avoid hospital admission wherever possible by providing intensive support in the home environment.  We know from extensive research this provides better outcomes for young people.

Our working hours are 8.45am – 7pm every day.  We run an out of hours triage service 7pm – 8.45am to respond to A&E, the police or ambulance services.  This is to provide support and advice around mental health presentations to these services. We aim to see all young people appropriate for the service within 72 hours. 

We are able to offer intensive, evidence based, short term support (i.e. up to eight weeks) to manage risk and prevent deterioration via group work, 1:1 therapy (CBT, DBT, EMDR and Animal Assisted).

Young people can access our service via GPs and social workers directly or can make a CAMHS self-referral 9.30am – 4.30pm Monday to Friday.

If a young person does not meet the criteria for our team, we will signpost to a more appropriate service (within LPFT or otherwise).

This team works with children and young people presenting with an eating disorder such as Anorexia Nervosa or Bulimia.

Download our CAMHS Eating Disorder leaflet

The CAMHS Harmful Behaviour Service works with children and young people (up to the age of 18 years old) displaying sexual behaviour that is causing concern, and which falls outside behaviour considered developmentally appropriate for a child or young person of that age.  The Brook Traffic Light Tool is a good starting point for considering whether a sexual behaviour being displayed is of concern

The Harmful Behaviour Service provides professional advice, assessments using the Assess Intervene and Move on (AIM) model with trained assessors, and evidence-based interventions.  

The CAMHS Harmful Behaviour Service works with children, young people, families/carers and professionals to offer a co-ordinated approach to reduce levels of risk and vulnerability to self and others and is informed by Safeguarding Children guidance and the Signs of Safety model used within Lincolnshire Children’s Services. 

For further information around sexual behaviour concerns in children and young people, please visit the following sites

• Stop it Now! Concerned about a child or young person’s sexual behaviour? webpage 
• Parents Protect- Resource pack for parents
• NSPCC-Harmful sexual behaviour webpage
• NSPCC- Harmful sexual behaviour framework document
• Lincolnshire Safeguarding Childrens Partnership guidance- - Children and Young People who Display Sexually Inappropriate or Harmful Behaviours
• Talks PANTS- Help starting conversations with your child to help them understand that their body belongs to them, and they should tell someone they trust if anything makes them feel upset or worried.

   

Download our CAMHS Learning Disability Service- Easy Read Guide

CAMHS Learning Disability team is a community based specialist service offering support to children and young people, aged between 0-18 years, who are experiencing significant mental health problems and who are diagnosed with moderate to severe learning disability.

What we can help with

• Mental health and/ or associated complex needs
• Challenging behaviour

How we can help

The team will work with you, your parents/carers, schools, and health professionals and social care to offer individual tailored advice and strategies to support you. This might include:

• Conducting a comprehensive holistic assessment to include psychological, emotional and behavioural health as well as looking at physical issues which could be affecting mental health well-being (e.g. sleep)  
• Conducting a psychiatric assessment and medication consultation / review (if required)
• Offering behaviour management advice and interventions
• 1:1 time with the young person and their family
• Offering telephone consultations and advice
• Teaching and consultation to agencies (such as schools, respite services, children’s homes)
• Offering a parent support program
• Signposting to other appropriate agencies

This is not an exhaustive list and most importantly, following any assessments, you and your family will be invited to be involved in deciding the best course of action.