What is it?
- Service for young people’s social, emotional & mental health.
- Offers assessments, tailored interventions & staff training
- Improves collaborative working between health & schools.
Offers therapeutic education for young people not in school.
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Information
Gloucester House Outreach Service is a unique service, offering skills and experience in both mental health and education. While attached to Gloucester House, it is a standalone service that can be purchased by local authorities or schools.
The aim is to support children with social, emotional and mental health needs to remain in mainstream schools, provide home education, or support transitions to appropriate provisions. Our service works with children, families and the professional network around the child – for example schools, CAMHS and children’s services.
- What we can offer
- Multi-disciplinary assessment of mental health and educational need for children with complex social, emotional and mental health needs
- Multi-disciplinary education and clinical interventions for children, schools, families and networks which are tailored to specific needs
- Staff training and consultation – face to face and by phone
- Support to professional and informal networks and the collaborative coordination of complex networks to achieve coherent and effective care plans
- Support to plan interventions and sharing resources and interventions that have been used at Gloucester House to build a child’s cognitive ability and build strategies to manage their feelings and relationships with others
- Liaison and linking with the network to facilitate joint thinking and improved collaborative working between health and education
- Strengths of the model
- We are able to offer support through our role as outside objective observer. This allows us the benefit of being in a unique position of offering systemic consultation to the whole system, drawing on our extensive knowledge in child mental health and education
- Schools can access specialist input from staff with vast experience of working with children with similar needs and presentations
- How we work
Following an initial exploratory meeting, a core intervention is agreed, involving a combination of:
- Exploratory meetings
- Network meetings
- Meetings with key contacts
- Therapeutic/other sessions
- Observations
- Team discussion, report write-up, follow-up phone calls
Depending on identified need, this may lead to a bespoke package of specialist clinical and educational support for the individual child, or wider support for the network or provision.
This may lead to subsequent capacity building or specialist clinical or intensive specialist packages depending on identified need.
- Consultation and audit
Gloucester House also offers consultation to schools around meeting the needs of particular children.
Gloucester House can work with school leaders to audit systems and implement new systems in their schools around behaviour and staff support.
Please contact us for further information on prices and packages.
Contact info
Contact information
Address: The Tavistock Children’s Day Unit, 33 Daleham Gardens, London NW3 5BU
Tel: 0207 794 3353
If you would like to make a referral for outreach support please download, complete and return our outreach referral form. You can also contact our outreach team on our Contact Us page.
Find out more about working with us by contacting Nimisha Deakin, Clinical Nurse Specialist, on 0208 938 2063.
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