Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS)

CAMHS Core Team

Core CAMHS is a team of trained Mental Health Practitioners and Assistant Practitioners from various clinical backgrounds including:

• Mental Health Nurses
• Social Workers
• Psychologists 
• 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.

CAMHS Crisis and Enhanced Treatment Teams (CCETT)

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 offering assessment and 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 to 7pm every day 

We run an out of hours triage service 7pm to 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 (up to eight weeks) to manage risk and prevent deterioration via group work and 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 to 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).

CAMHS Eating Disorder Team

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

For more information, you can Download CAMHS Eating Disorder Service leaflet

CAMHS Learning Disability Service

Click here to visit the CAMHS Learning Disability page.

CAMHS Harmful Behaviour Service

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 and carers
• professionals

to offer a coordinated 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? 
• Parents Protect- Resource pack for parents
• NSPCC-Harmful sexual behaviour
• NSPCC- Harmful sexual behaviour framework
• Lincolnshire Safeguarding Childrens Partnership- - Children and Young People who Display Sexually Inappropriate or Harmful Behaviours