East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust – Child and Adolescent Service (ELCAS) – Community Services

Local Offer

East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust provides specialist mental health services (psychiatry) for children and young people aged up to 16th birthday who have a range of mental health difficulties and mental disorders. The service supports and promotes emotional health and wellbeing.  This service is specialist CAMHS for the East of the County and Blackburn with Darwen.   Services are provided at Tier 3 of the HAS Service “Together We Stand” definitions of intervention and service provision.

The service offers a wide range of support for young people and their families who have mental health difficulties such as; psychosis, depression, eating disorders, ADHD, self-harm, obsessive compulsive disorders, anxiety etc. The service line is provided by a multidisciplinary team comprising of consultant psychiatrists, nurses, psychologists (working at Tier 3), occupational therapists, family therapists, psychological therapists and mental health practitioners.  The team are from a range of professional backgrounds and provide a wide range of therapeutic interventions.

The service offers the following approaches through a multi-disciplinary approach:

·         Assessment

·         Cognitive Behaviour Therapy

·         Pharmacological services

·         Art Therapy

·         Play Therapy

·         Systemic Family Therapy

·         Care Co-ordination

·         EMDR

·         Paediatric Liaison

 

 

Interventions can range from one session to on-going support and involvement with the service depending on the presenting problem.

 

The service also has a Day Unit which provides intensive support services to children and their families, whose needs are greater than can be managed at Tier 3.   This service is vital and proactive in reducing the number of young people who require Tier 4 in-patient provision.

The service does not provide Tier 2 uni-disciplinary services, Clinical Child Psychology Services or CAMHS Learning Disability Services.  These are provided by colleagues in Lancashire Care Foundation NHS Trust

Who to contact

Telephone
01282 804806 01282 804806
Website
www.elht.nhs.uk
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Where to go

Name
Burnley General Hospital
Address
Area 3, Level 3
Casterton Avenue
Burnley
Lancashire
Postcode

BB10 2PQ

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Availability

Referral required
Yes
Referral Details

The service can be accessed by a process of referral.  ELCAS currently receive referrals from a wide range of people including GPs, children’s social care, paediatricians, other CAMHS teams, school teachers and school nurses. The service does not accept self-referrals.

 

Referrals other than from health need to be via an open and active CAF to ensure that early intervention and prevention has been addressed before referral into a specialist psychiatry service.

 

The team is divided into geographical areas covering:

 

·         Burnley & Pendle

·         Hyndburn, Rossendale & Ribble Valley (Ribblesdale)

·         Blackburn with Darwen

 

The teams can be contacted directly to gain advice, support or signposting. Please ring the reception number who will be able to redirect your call to the most appropriate Team Co-ordinator.

 

The service can be accessed free of charge and waiting lists for initial assessments are currently averaging below 6 weeks.

 

The outcome measures used in the Service are the SDQ’s (Strengths and Difficulties), CGAS (Child Global Assessment Scale), HONOSCA (Health of the National Outcome Scales for Adolescents).  We also obtain patient feedback in line with the Commission for Health Improvement

Other notes

The first point of contact for the parent/carer or child/young person to discuss something about their care would be to the practitioner involved in delivering their care. If the service user has any urgent worries or urgent concerns, they are able to call the Team co-ordinator for their geographical team who will be able to assist.   Please contact reception on 01282 804806 who will redirect the call to the most appropriate person.

Once referred, the appropriate team will consider whether the child or young person will benefit from the service. The referrer will also be able to contact the service in advance to discuss whether the child or young would benefit from service support.

ELCAS forms a small component of a wider network of CAMHS.  CAMHS in its broadest sense covers a wide range emotional health and well-being as well as specialist psychiatry.  Primary Health Care, including Health Visitors, School Nurses and GPs, schools and other support services provide an essential early intervention and early support service and these should be used and accessed before referral to ELCAS as a stepped approach to intervention.

Local Offer

Contact Telephone
01282 804806
Local Offer Age Bands
5-11 years
11-16 years

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