Barnet Adolescent Outreach Team (Barnet AOT)

What is it?

Local Services

Service Info

Support complex young people and their families.
For young people between 13-18 years old with a Barnet GP.
Offer interventions at home, in a clinic or community settings.
Provide access to long, medium, and shorter interventions.

Here's more detail

Published: 11/04/24

We are a service based in Barnet, which endeavours to work with complex young people, their families and any other professionals involved in their care in the community, their homes, and in clinic settings.

Our service is borne out of wanting to make early interventions in the mental and emotional wellbeing of young people and through empowering them and their families.

Our team is a multidisciplinary team which includes psychiatrists, psychotherapists,psychologists, family therapists, nurses, and adolescence mental health workers.

Our aims are:

To provide 7 day follow ups for young people who have presented to A&E with a mental health concern who are not open to a team currently.

To provide intensive shorter-term crisis assessment and intervention, as well as medium to longer-term interventions and case management. The interventions will be offered at home, in a clinic or community settings.

To provide a service for patients with complex needs including repeated moderate to high-risk self-harm.

To provide access to timely long, medium- and shorter-term interventions.

To work collaboratively with families and wider networks, to facilitate the best outcomes for complex young people.

Referral criteria
The Barnet Adolescent Outreach Team will accept service users for assessment and treatment if the following criteria is met:
The young person is experiencing an acute emotional/ mental health crisis and is at risk of admission to hospital.
The young person is aged between 13 and up to their 18th birthday.
With presentations of co-morbidity a predominant mental health need component to the crisis is identified.
Young People experiencing a presentation of Psychosis.
Young People presenting with moderate to high risk self-harm and risk incidents.
Young people with history of Trauma and often complex family dynamics.
Those older adolescents who are out of full-time education or who are in independent accommodation.
Those with dual diagnoses of mental health problems and drug and alcohol difficulties if they cannot be treated with the specialist YPDAS service due to the severity of their mental health difficulties.