Service details
Whole family service
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We are a specialist MDT CAMHS service working within the London Borough of Camden alongside children (over 5) and young people’s services. We specialise in working with families facing complex difficulties, who may already have been working with several professionals and may struggle to access community services. We provide specialist interventions for families where there are issues related to complex trauma and attachment.
We are made up of a range of multidisciplinary professionals:
Clinical Psychologists
Systemic Family Therapist
Social Workers
Mental Health Nurses
Child and Adolescent Psychotherapists
Parental Mental Health Worker
Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist
Adult Psychiatrist and Psychotherapist
and traineesMembers of our team are allocated time for services around Camden, this means that we are often able to meet you in the places you already use, and alongside the people who are currently supporting you.
For this reason we are located in:
- Camden Local Authority building
- Local Family Hubs
- Youth Offending Service (YOS)
- Health and Harrmood schools (alternative Camden school)
- Primary PRU
- Borough(s): Camden
- Service Manager (s): Dr Subreena CharlemagneOdle
- Email: LACAMHSadmin@camden.gov.uk
- Age range treated: 5 - 17
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Address:
5 Pancras Square, London, N1C 4AG
- Reception hours: 9am - 5pm
- Phone number: 0208 938 2272/ 0208 938 2282
How to access this service
We accept referrals from Camden Local Authority staff such as Social Workers, and Family Support Worker, and Education professionals, and GP’s. We also accept referrals from our CAMHS clinicians. A referral to us should be discussed with the person being referred (and parent/s and Carer/s) and the professional they are working with.
What to expect
Initially we will liaise with the professional network who have identified the Whole Family Team as the appropriate service to refer to. Through consultation, screening and assessment we aim to identify the most appropriate intervention. This could be:
- Supporting referral to another CAMHS team better able to meet the family’s need
- Family work or therapy
- Group work, such as Parenting Groups
- Individual work
- A clinical thinking with the network (called consultation or ‘thinking together’)
- Indirect work, which is when CAMHS professionals are part of the network and therefore attend Strategy, Child in Need and Child Protection meetings.
