Placement Overview
| Placement Title | CAMHS GM Rapid Response Team (West) |
| Trust | |
| Your Placement Contact | Joanne Wyatt, Donna Ward, Nick Horne, Oscar Glentworth – Send Email |
| Placement Contact’s Role | Mental Health Practitioner / Student Lead |
| Placement Address |
155-157 Manchester Road Ince, WIgan WN2 2LA |
| Placement City/Town: | Wigan |
| Placement Phone | 01942 481781 |
About this placement
What is organised for students on commencement of placement?
A Student board is displayed in each of our offices, which includes different resources around learning opportunities which are available within our Service.
We have a Student Induction pack which we will complete together and have also developed a Student folder, which contains all of our documentation, which we have completed to give an example.
What are the arrangements for mentors/assessors?
There are practice assessors and supervisors within the West team, there are also supervisors across the other teams should you do any work with our other Rapid Response Teams.
What shift patterns are students allocated for learning?
Early:
08.00am – 16.00pm
Late:
12.00pm – 20.00pm
Night:
NA
Shift Notes:
Long Day, 08.00am – 20.00pm
Notes:
The service operates 7 days a week.
What patient care situations are available in this placement?
The GM Rapid Response Team is a multi-disciplinary team of mental health professionals providing an assertive outreach model to support children and young people up to the age of 18 in crisis. With the primary aim to prevent further escalation and avoid hospital and/or Accident & Emergency (A&E) Department admission, the RRT ambition is to attend the crisis location within 4 hours of the initial referral being raised.
We provide intensive support for up to 72 hours, the team will support community Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS), Accident and Emergency departments, Social Care, emergency services and wider partners (Voluntary Community and Social Enterprise (VCSE) Sector), providing consultation and advice, via remote working – in real-time, when dealing with a developing crisis. The service will be available for children and young people up to the young person’s 18th birthday.
The Rapid Response Team will:
– Assertively engage young people and their families
– Rapidly assess young people with acute mental health problems and refer them to the most appropriate agency, including inpatient areas
– Povide nurse led community based treatment, by delivering brief interventions
– Remain involved with the young people for up to 72 hours and until the acute episode is resolved or until it is ensured that they are linked to ongoing care if appropriate
– Reduce young people’s vulnerability and maximise their resilience
What nursing model is used for planning care?
The Roper, Logan and Tierney model. which was based on Henderson’s needs-based approach, adopted a biopsychosocial approach throughout the lifespan, along a dependence–independence continuum that incorporates socio-economic and environmental influences on health and healthcare. It provided a theoretical framework for the nursing process and was considered to be a humanistic alternative to the reductionist medical model.
What core clinical skills can be learnt?
You will have the opportunity to be involved in managing risk within the community, mental health assessments, risk assessments, care planning and delivery of brief interventions for young people and their families.
Identifying when other services should be involved and making onward referrals, to ensure collaborative working.
Liaising with other services (CAMHS, Social care) to ensure relevant information is shared with all professionals involved in the young person’s care.
Identifying when risks escalate and following escalation procedures, to make decisions around young people’s care. We may need to send young people to a place of safety (A+E) or consider a referral to Inpatient services.
Working within frameworks such as The Care Act (2014), The Mental Capacity Act (2005), The Children Act (2004) and local safeguarding policies and procedures.
Record keeping and documentation skills, writing mental health assessments, documenting risk assessments and completing discharge letters.
What additional clinical skills can be learnt?
Supporting complex young people and their families within the community. This can involve psychoeducation for families and educating them on how to support young people in their care.
You will have the opportunity to network and visit third sector organizations, who can offer different levels of support within the community.
What resources are available to help students learning?
You will be given the opportunity to become familiar with a wide range of brief interventions around many different mental health conditions, such as; depression, low self-esteem, anxiety, psychosis. Interventions can be around, but not inclusive of; managing emotions, coping mechanisms, distraction techniques, grounding techniques, communication, further explorative work of difficulties.
Information around completing mental health assessments, this includes writing a mental-state examination and the structure and evidence behind this.
The Philosophy of our service, which falls under The Children and young people Crisis Care Pathway.
Local Trust policies and procedures, located on our intranet.
Access to training opportunities, which can also be booked through our Trust intranet.
We have available private rooms within our building, if you need any allocated study time.
What research and practice development activities are being undertaken?
There is currently a research study which we are involved in, ran by The University of Manchester. This is called The Blueprint Study and its purpose is to identify how families and young people have accessed services, any barriers to this, availability of services and their overall experience of this.
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Additional Information
The Rapid response team is a part of the newly developed crisis care pathway. Our service aims to respond within 4 hours of the initial referral when a young person is presenting in a mental health crisis and to complete an assessment, management with clear, structured risk assessment, risk reduction framework and a formulation. Apart of this role is to develop holistic and recovery focused care plans and mobilise the support around the child and family to promote resilience and reduce the likelihood of future crisis episode’s and work intensively with the child and those involved for up to 72 hours.