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About the day

This event is open to all clinicians working in Child and Adolescent Mental Health and other groups with special interest in the topics. This is a day-long event which aims to present novel and innovative approaches to address the needs of CAMHS population locally and nationally. It would provide an opportunity to learn about the challenges and the success of such approaches, exchange ideas on key topics between clinicians/other professionals who have shared interests and facilitate a space to get together/socialise.

Key takeaways

• Updates on New Care models
• Details of the THRIVE framework for system change
• Local initiatives to help education staff to recognise and support students with mental health difficulties and facilitate multiagency professionals problem solving approach
• The stages of setting up an independent, specialist, multi-disciplinary outpatient service in the New Forest and the successes and pitfalls to date.

Who should attend

This day would be particularly beneficial to those who work in a clinical and research setting. In particular; Directors of research, Professors, Senior researchers, Principal investigators, Associate Professors, Researchers or Investigators, Assistant researchers, Post-doctoral fellow, Ph.D. students, Junior researchers, Child and Adolescent Psychiatrists and Psychologists, Speciality Doctors, Clinical leads, Nurse Practitioners, Educational Psychologists, Social Workers, and those that work with children and young people affected with mental health issues.

About the speakers

Dr Richard Sankar is a Consultant in Child and Adolescent Mental Health and Clinical Director of the Wessex and Dorset Tier 4 CAMHs provider collaborative. He has worked in the National Health Service for 26 years, as both a nurse and doctor. His latest role includes the development and implementation of a local provider collaborative, clinically and financially responsible for the patient population in their geography. Essentially, this takes the CAMHs inpatient function from NHSE specialised commissioning and transfers it to a partnership of local health providers. This system change will drive investment in strategies for families and young people to improve whole pathway care and reduce reliance on the most specialised, and restrictive, services.

Dr Rachel James is the Programme and Clinical Lead for the National i-THRIVE Programme and is responsible for supporting the national implementation of the THRIVE Framework. Rachel leads on the i-THRIVE Academy.

Rachel is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist and has over 25 years’ experience working with children, young people and their families across the health, social care, education and voluntary sectors, and she has led community, specialist and multi-agency child and adolescent mental health teams within the UK. She is currently the Clinical Director of the Child, Young Adult and Family Directorate at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust. Rachel is a co-author of the THRIVE Framework for system change (Wolpert et al., 2019) and the Clinical and Programme Director for the National i-THRIVE Programme.

Rachel is committed to developing and delivering high-quality services that are evidence-informed, prevent and promote emotional health and wellbeing, and empower children, young people and their families to be actively involved in decisions about their care through shared decision making. Rachel integrates her learning from an UCL Partners Improvement Fellowship into developing ways to embed quality improvement within everyday practice to effect meaningful and sustainable change across systems.

Deborah Gill has been an Educational Psychologist employed by Local Authorities or schools for 25 years. She is currently a Senior Educational Psychologist with Dorset Council. Dorset Educational Psychology Service has developed a range of innovative and effective group supervision approaches for professionals supporting children and young people.

Victoria Ware has been an Occupational Therapist for 25 years working in the areas of Adult Mental Health, Acquired Brain Injury Rehabilitation and for the last 14 years with children with an intellectual disability in a specialist CAMHS/ID service in Dorset. Victoria is a Sensory Integration Practitioner and has developed an interest in attachment. Victoria also provides Independent Consultation for Barnardo’s and is a health service volunteer at the annual Glastonbury music festival.

Dr. Laura Giffen is a Clinical Psychologist and is based within the Intellectual Disability CAMHS in Dorset. Laura trained in Argentina, qualified in 2006 and then moved to the UK. Since then, she has worked in the field of learning disabilities and neurodevelopmental disorders with adults and children both in the public and private sector; she also worked as a therapy services manager during her placement across independent specialist schools across Dorset and Hampshire. Laura’s background is in “Psychodynamic Psychotherapy” and she gained further training in cognitive analytical therapy and systemic therapy in the United Kingdom. Laura is interested in the areas of systemic thinking and neuro psychology. She likes to “Zoom in and Zoom out” in order to understand and support individuals in their complex systems and stories. Laura has a little daughter who keeps her very busy. She likes to read and travel. Laura enjoys surfing, snow and paddle boarding and any sport that involves a board!

Gary Sutton-Boulton
Gary is a Registered Learning Disability Nurse with a bachelor’s degree in Science which he passed with honours. Gary has worked for Dorset Healthcare for 20 years and he was a nursery school teacher prior to joining the NHS. He is the team leader for the ID CAMH service covering East and South of the county and has been in this role for 5 years.

Gary is trained at masters level in ADHD which is an area of interest to him in addition to adapted therapies, medication prescribing and team wellbeing. He has been a Non-Medical Prescriber for over 5 years and his practice is very holistic.  Gary has a commendable therapeutic relationships with young people and their families and works collaboratively with team members and partner agencies. Gary is very passionate about his work and has shown great commitment to the Siblings Group over the last two decades.

Delise Jackson
Dilly is a senior support worker and has been with the service and the Trust for 20 years this year. Before joining the service, Dilly was into art and worked and trained people at Poole Pottery for many years right from the time she left school. She initially became involved with running art/creative sessions for three young people and has never looked back. Dilly is a huge asset to the team and brings a wealth of experience to the service. She is passionate about working with parents and carers and families have always found her involvement extremely beneficial. Dilly is also a sleep practitioner and is part of the sleep clinic which has now been running for almost 6 years where detailed assessments are completed pertaining to sleep hygiene, environment, behavioural factors and appropriate interventions are planned and implemented before medication is considered by the team.

Programme

09:20 – 9:50 – Registration, Tea/Coffee
09:50 – 10:00 – Introduction and plan for the day
10:00 – 11:00 – Provider Collaboratives: Right care, right place, right time? Dr. Richard Sankar, Consultant in Child & Adolescent Mental Health , Southampton
11:00 – 12:00 – The THRIVE Framework for system change: An integrated approach to service transformation’ – Dr. Rachel James, Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Tavistock and Portman Clinic
12:00 – 12:45 – Lunch
12:45 – 13:30 – SIBS  – A unique and therapeutic space for siblings to express themselves, relax and have fun during school holidays – Gary Sutton-Boulton, Team Leader and Delise Jackson, Senior Support Worker and sleep practitioner, East Dorset Intellectual Disability CAMHS
13:30 – 14:15 – Multi-agency Planning & Problem Solving (MAPPS) Groups: developing shared reflective practice across agencies – Victoria Ware, Senior Occupational Therapist, Dorset Healthcare University NHS Foundation Trust and Deborah Gill, Senior Educational Psychologist, Dorset Council
14:15 – 14:45– Tea/Coffee
14:45 – 15:30 – Supporting Mental Health and Wellbeing in Schools: A priority for all – Dr. Laura Giffen, Clinical Psychologist, Dorset Healthcare
15:30 – 16:00 – Final comments, discussion, close

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