Enfield CAMHS SCAN and STAY

We are a multidisciplinary team providing advice, support and interventions to young people and their parents / carers where there are moderate to severe mental health issues or behaviours of concern.

The team is made up of practitioners with different professional backgrounds, including:

• Clinical Psychology
• Psychiatry
• Nursing
• Positive behaviour support (PBS)
• Psychotherapy

SCAN patients often have chronic and life-long conditions and will often require several episodes of care or long-term monitoring of medication. If your child or young person needs mental health support, they would be seen by SCAN if they:

• Attend a special school
• Have an Enfield GP

• Assess and diagnose mental health conditions and/or neurodevelopmental conditions.
• Offer interventions for parents and carers around helping to manage behavioural problems, either individually or in a group with other parents using a Positive Behavioural Support (PBS) approach.
• Initiate and manage specialist psychiatric medications for the treatment of mental illness, ADHD or behavioural problems
• Liaise with, or provide consultation to, other agencies, including schools and children’s social care services.
• Offer psychotherapy input to address variety of mental health difficulties.
• Work with other teams in Enfield CAMHS where other interventions may be helpful. For example, accessing family therapy. (Include the definition of family therapy from who are we).

We accept referrals from GPs, Special schools, Allied Healthcare Professionals and Social Workers.

If you are a professional and want to know more about making a referral or what we offer, please find below our pathways of support to help you understand if our team may be a good fit.

To refer, please contact the Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Single Point of Access.

STAY aims to offer timely, flexible and intensive evidence-based consultation and if appropriate intensive support to families and other supporters who are experiencing significant challenges coping with the harmful or risky behaviour of a child or young person.

The STAY pathway of care is based on establishing a working partnership with the young person, their supporters and professionals with a focus on identifying appropriate measures that will reduce the risks of harm and the likelihood of a home placement breakdown.

Sometimes partnership working, consultation and risk reduction measures are sufficient, but if not then longer-term psychological or behavioural input can be offered, adapted to the circumstances of the young person and their family.

STAY can only accept requests from core social care or mental health professionals involved: i.e. a social worker or a community CAMHS clinician.

Requests for STAY can only be considered if the family have consented to the CYP being escalated to the Enfield Dynamic Support Register (DSR).

A request for STAY may arise following a multi-disciplinary meeting such as a Care and Education Treatment Review (CETR) or a Local Area Emergency Protocol (LAEP) meeting, both of which are associated with the operation of the DSR.

If you are a professional and want to know more about making a request or what we offer please email beh-tr.enfieldcamhsscan@nhs.net, or take a look at our journey planner below.