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South London Community Forensic CAMHS

How our service can help you

South London FCAMHS is a specialist, tier 4, multi-disciplinary mental health service working with children and young people who are involved in the youth justice system, or who are at risk of offending or causing harm to others. The service offers advice, consultation, specialist assessment, and limited short-term interventions, as well as bespoke training for local professionals.

  • Service Borough Covers: Bexley, Bromley, Croydon, Greenwich, Kingston upon Thames, Lambeth, Lewisham, Merton, Richmond, Southwark, Sutton, Wandsworth Treatment type: Outpatient

  • Contact the service

    Site Location: Services at other sites Known As: Community FCAMHS Email: SouthLondonFCAMHS@slam.nhs.uk Phone Number: 020 3228 8863
  • Disabled Access:
    • Wheelchair accessible building
    • Ground floor therapy rooms
    • Accessible toilets on all levels
    • Lift access to the 1stfloor
  • Address: Pears Maudsley Centre for Children and Young People (PMCYP),
    Denmark Hill,
    London,
    SE5 8AZ

    • Other essential information

  • Conditions: Addictions, Anxiety, Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), Autism, Bipolar disorder, Body dysmorphic disorder (BDD), Childhood degenerative disorders, Conduct disorder, Dementia, Depression, Dissociative disorders, Eating disorders, Learning disabilities, Neuropsychiatry, Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), Perinatal disorders, Persistent physical symptoms, Personality disorders, Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), Psychosexual, Psychosis, Self-harm

Interventions

Our interventions may include:

  • Assessments involving structured diagnostic interviews, psychometry, risk assessment, risk formulation and treatment recommendations
  • Support and partnership work with community child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) and other agencies, to help manage risk and complex behavioural difficulties
  • Medico-legal assessments and reports for criminal or care proceedings
  • Offence related interventions for anger management, violence reduction, sexual offending and dangerous fire setting behaviour
  • Trauma-related interventions
  • Consultation and care planning for forensic cases in outlying secure facilities

Referral Criteria

Referral criteria:

  • Children and young people up to 18 years of age
  • Children and young people at high risk of harm to others
  • Risk should be associated with a mental health need and/or neurodevelopmental disorder
  • The young person must reside in one of the 12 South London boroughs (that fall within South London Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust and Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust).
  •  South London FCAMHS accepts referrals for looked after children who first entered care in one of the 12 South London boroughs, even if they are placed elsewhere. Where a young person is placed out of borough, we aim to work collaboratively with the FCAMHS team local to the placement.
  •  A professional network should have been established, and clinical responsibility remains with the referring professional/care coordinator.

We accept referrals from:

  • CAMHS Tier 3 and Tier 2 services
  • Local Authorities (Children's Social Care)
  • Youth Justice Services
  • CAMHS Inpatient Facilities
  • Education

This list is not exhaustive, referrals from other relevant professionals will also be considered.

Referral pathway:

Referrals should be sent by email to: SouthLondonFCAMHS@slam.nhs.uk

Eligibility criteria

  • Children and young people up to 18 years old
  • Male or female
  • Young people who are vulnerable or present high risk behaviours including children involved in care or criminal proceedings

Outcomes

Our outcomes include:

  • Completion of structured risk assessment
  • Identification of protective factors (mitigating risk)
  • Provision of risk management strategy
  • Involvement of the young person and their family in the care plan
  • Improvement in the young person’s children’s global assessment scale score in cases where intervention is provided

Care Options

Care option: Standard assessment

Unit: Per assessment

Forensic diagnostic assessment includes risk formulation and intervention, and a care plan involving a consultant forensic psychiatrist. 
 


Care option: Complex assessment

Unit: Per assessment

Complex and high risk case structured forensic assessment involves a consultant psychiatrist and clinical psychology psychometric evaluation, where indicated. We offer a forensic diagnostic assessment, risk formulation and intervention. This may include additional consultation with the referring team and a risk or intervention review. 
 


Care option: Treatment

Unit: Per session

Offence specific forensic therapy, including family work and CBT. R and R2 attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) treatment groups.

Testimonials

This is a national specialist Tier 4 service commissioned by NHS England. Background information can be found on the NHS England website.

Our experts

Dr Zeyana Ramadhan, Consultant Clinical Psychologist

Dr Jack Gilgunn, Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist

Dr Charlotte Rose, Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist

Steph Cottrell, Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist

Dr Daniel Hayes, Consultant Psychiatrist

Dawn Murray, Admin Team Lead

Senior Social Worker

 

 

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