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Mental Health TRAINING & DEVELOPMENT PROJECT www.camhs.org |
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The project views the Specialist CAMHS teams as having specialist knowledge and skills in the area of child and adolescent mental health. It feels that if:
then the Specialist CAMHS Teams need to be playing a more active role in supporting front-line workers. Not only do the Specialist CAMHS Teams need to see this support, through consultation, liaison, supervision and training, as part of their role in terms of providing comprehensive CAMHS, but commissioners of these specialist services need to acknowledge and value this role as well. In this way we can conceptualise of these Specialist CAMHS teams as learning organisations and making use of their specialist role. In doing this we can see the Specialist CAMHS teams provision of input for frontline workers is one part of a broader view of their training and development. To read more about these ideas around Specialist CAMHS as learning organisations click here. To see a diagram of how this training and development could look click here. East Kent Specialist CAMHS Teams: The Specialist Teams in East Kent are exploring the possibility of piloting training modules from an MSc in Mental Health Studies from the University of Kent at Canterbury. Each of the teams is looking at ways of strengthening their links with frontline/Tier 1 workers. An example of this is a Skills seminar/conference for Frontline workers bring put together by the staff of Orchard House Specialist CAMHS Team in Thanet. West Kent Specialist CAMHS Teams: The Specialist Teams in West Kent are also looking at ways of exploring their link with frontline workers. An example of this is the Maidstone Multi-Agency Interface Project, which includes the staff of the Specialist Teams at Gatland House in Maidstone. Click here for more information. |
