CAMHS Workforce Standards and Practice
Access to a range of tools, guidance, information and research to support the effective and efficient development of a flexible need led workforce.
- A mental health care pathway for children and young people with learning disabilities: a resource pack for service planners and practitioners
The resource pack which aims to help CAMHS partnerships and local providers in the planning and delivery of mental health services for children and young people witha learning disability (LD).
Publisher: CAMHS Evidence Based Practice Unit (EBPU)
Published Date: 29/06/2007
- Developing mental health services for children and adolescents with learning disabilities: A toolkit for clinicians
This practical and concise book will help clinicians, service managers and commissioners to rapidly develop the necessary skills and knowledge in this expanding area of clinical practice. It provides a comprehensive overview of epidemiology, mental health disorders and their clinical presentations, multidisciplinary assessment and intervention, and multi-agency working. It reviews the specific roles of different medical practitioners, such as clinical psychologists and occupational therapists. Plus there are sections on working in partnership with families, and service tiers and models. This toolkit is aimed at mental health professionals and especially service managers and commissioners of child and adolescent mental health services.
Publisher: Royal College of Psychiatrists (RCPsych)
Published Date: 04/03/2009
- Joint guidance on the employment of consultant psychiatrists (2010)
Guidance for commissioners and health authorities on creating roles, maintaining current posts, recruitment, developing effective working relationships and promoting new ways of working. Includes an example job description and person specification for ease of local implementation. (Replaces the 2005 edition.)
Publisher: Department of Health (DH)
Published Date: 27/01/2010
- Medicines management: everybody's business. A guide for service users, carers and health and social care practitioners
This booklet aims to empower service users and carers to ask relevant questions about medication and have their views taken into account, and to help health and social care practitioners improve their person-centred approach in the area of medicines management.
Publisher: Department of Health (DH)
Published Date: 09/01/2008
- Mental health policy implementation guide: a learning and development toolkit for the whole of the mental health workforce across both health and social care
Enables local health and social care organisations to develop their own learning and development strategy to meet the needs of service users and carers, staff and their employees – a strategy which links with commissioners and providers of learning and development, underpinned by the key national documents.
Benefits of the tool include:
- Promotes multi-agency working
- Supports the maintenance of a fit-for-purpose children's workforce
- Encourages the realisation of improved Every Child Matters (ECM) outcomes for children, young people and families
Publisher: Department of Health (DH)
Published Date: 30/04/2007
- National continuous quality improvement framework for child and adolescent emotional well-being and mental health education and training
Provides a framework for educators and trainers who are developing, delivering and evaluating CAMHS training programmes, using a collaborative approach.
Publisher: Centre for Clinical and Academic Workforce Innovation (CCAWI), University of Lincoln
Published Date: 06/07/2010
- National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE): mental health and behavioural conditions
This section of the NICE website gives access to the guidance which is relevant to mental health.
Publisher: National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE)
Published Date: 07/12/2010
- National Occupational Standards (NOS) for psychological therapies
A range of competences / National Occupational Standards (NOS) developed by Skills for Health working with experts across the field.
Publisher: Skills for Health
Published Date: 14/03/2010
- National Service Framework for Children, Young People and Maternity Services: the mental health and psychological well-being of children and young people: Standard 9
This is the standard on child and adolescent mental health which
forms part of the National Service Framework (NSF) for Children, Young
People and Maternity Services
Publisher: Department of Health (DH)
Published Date: 04/10/2004
- NICE guidelines specific interventions from key priorities for implementation
This document is an attempt to provide an overview of the skills and knowledge required to implement the main NICE guidance relating to CAMHS.
Publisher: NIMHE National Workforce Programme
Published Date: 20/07/2009
- Quick step guide to using core functions for CAMHS Tier 3 and 4
This guide provides a synthesis of the learning obtained from respondents to the evaluation report of three pilot project sites using the Skills for Health Core Functions.
Publisher: Skills for Health
Published Date: 28/09/2010
- Specialist CAMHS training: evidence-based development of guidelines for providers, commissioners and children and young people who use services
This report focuses on the needs for training and education of the workforce that delivers specialist child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) at Teirs 2, 3 and 4.
Publisher: University of Leicester
Published Date: 30/11/2007
- The quick guide to NICE guidance and CAMHS
Publisher: NIMHE National Workforce Programme
Published Date: 20/07/2009