Lancashire and South Cumbria Foundation Trust
Lancashire and South Cumbria Foundation Trust provides a comprehensive specialist CAMHS aiming to provide a joint agency/multi-disciplinary service to enhance the development of those children with mental health problems and disorders. This will be achieved by:
- Assessment of children who are experiencing mental health disorders and their families.
- Treatment of children who are experiencing mental health disorders and their families.
- Contributing to the development of prevention strategies.
- Supporting the work of other childcare professionals through consultation, training and supervision.
- By acting as a specialist resource to managers and planners and commissioners in the development of services.
- Promotion of the positive mental health of children and adolescents.
- Training and research.
Specialist CAMHS aims to provide a comprehensive service which is able to deal with a range of mental health issues, in collaboration with other agencies to provide the highest quality standards of care and intervention.
The service covers the whole of East Lancashire across 6 different localities (population circa 520,000). Within each of the localities are specialist CAMHS workers who work primarily with other professionals in primary care. The workers in these localities have direct links into three sector teams. The sector teams consist of Child and Adolescent Psychiatrists, Staff Grade Doctors, Community Mental Health Workers, Community Mental Health Nurses, Social Workers, ADHD Practitioners and Occupational Therapists.
There is also an Intensive Day Unit, which the three sector teams can access for referral of cases requiring an intensity of input that cannot be provided in conventional outpatient settings.