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Rutherglen Primary Care Centre
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CAMHS in Lanarkshire. The Camglen Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) is a specialist NHS multidisciplinary team, consisting of Psychiatry, Psychology, Nursing, and trainees in those disciplines and other allied health professionals. Close liaison and collaboration with colleagues in Social Work Services and Education, as well as Community and Voluntary Agencies, are key to joint practice and providing for the needs of the children, young people, parents and carers, with whom we work.
Camglen CAMHS is based at Rutherglen primary Care Centre. The main focus of work is the assessment and treatment of moderate to severe mental health problems in children and young people aged 0-18 years old across Cambuslang and Rutherglen areas. Support and care is given to children, young people and their families and other professionals involved in their well being. Most duties are carried out in an outpatient setting, following the Choice and Partnership Approach (CAPA) model. The team also provides psychiatric input to children and young people admitted to Hairmyres Hospital and on rare occasions to teenagers admitted to Wishaw General Hospital
Most referrals come from GPs but CAMHS welcome referral from other medical sources and appreciate the support and input of colleagues in any relevant field. For further information about the range and complexity of mental health difficulties CAMHS may work with, go to: http://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/
Referral Criteria for Community CAMHS service
We accept referrals from any agency, but all non health referrers must inform the child’s GP (e.g. Copy referral letter)
• Referral can be made of a child or young person before their 18th birthday.
The team are skilled in assessing and managing mental health problems in children and young people. The teams are able to offer a wide range of treatments including various group and individual therapies and family therapy. The centre has excellent links with paediatrics services including neurology and is able to easily access a full range of investigative facilities. There are also close links with Skye house and Caledonia House inpatient facilities and the University Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. There is an active academic programme and good academic links with other centres.
The East Renfrewshire CAMHS Consultant Psychiatrist is Dr Saman Khan. The CAMHS team staffing includes the disciplines of nursing, clinical psychology, family therapy, admin support and sessional input from other professionals such as OT, Speech and Language therapy and Dietetics as appropriate. There are also routinely core trainee psychiatrists on rotational placement. The Child and family disability social work team works closely with the CAMHS teams.
The Placement
The trainee will be responsible to Dr Saman Khan, Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist.
The trainee will be encouraged to observe all the day to day medical and psychiatric assessment and treatment of Community Child and adolescent patients attending the Centre.
This placement provides a great experience of working in multidisciplinary teams, e.g. with psychologists, nurses, OTs, child psychotherapists. It also gives ample opportunity to consider child protection issues, communicate with social work, teachers and parents. Trainees are encouraged to attend regular journal club and case conference meetings. Psychotherapy case based discussion groups will be held on Wednesday mornings.
The following is a sample timetable
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Ue5zcPuoN2TS9XbEAqO54GpkDuU_1IFpuHisw6MICUw/edit?usp=sharing
Length of the programme
Periods available
Trainees from EU member states can access the UK national health service