Appendix 27 – CAMHS services, SCAN and Referral forms
Barnet, Enfield and Haringey CAMHS Single Point of Access (SPOA)
A centralised access and referral process into young people’s mental health services across Barnet, Enfield, & Haringey.
The Single Point of Access (SPOA) service provides centralised access and referral processes into young people’s mental health services in Barnet, Enfield and Haringey.
This means there is one telephone number and one email address to make a referral into young people’s mental health services across all 3 boroughs.
The SPOA is responsible for managing triage, intake and undertaking clinical assessments quickly to identify needs.
The service offers specialist neurodevelopmental triage, advice, guidance and support for children and young people, their families and professional working with children and young people. The service signposts to services according to needs grouping.
Barnet CAMHS Generic Team
The Barnet Children and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) Generic Team provides assessment, treatment and support to children and young people aged up to 18 and their families for a range of mental health, behavioural and emotional wellbeing needs.
The service offers a range of individual, family and group based interventions. There are two Generic CAMHS teams within Barnet (East and West).
These services are provided by North London NHS Foundation Trust, The Tavistock & Portman NHS Trust, and Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust.
If you are a young person who is being referred to CAMHS, you can watch this video created by other young people to learn more about what to expect.
NHS Talking Therapies, for anxiety and depression
(formerly known as Improving Access to Psychological Therapies, IAPT)
Useful links
Barnet Council Local Offer
A London Borough of Barnet website helping young people with Special Educational Needs and/or disabilities and their families find the information they are looking for?
KOOTH
Kooth, from XenZone, is an online counselling and emotional well-being platform for children and young people, accessible through mobile, tablet and desktop and free at the point of use.
Young Minds Guide to CAMHS
Emotional wellbeing support
Emotional Wellbeing page on the Downs Syndrome Association website
For parents
NHS Talking Therapies for Barnet and Enfield offers free, confidential and evidence-based talking therapy for adults who is registered with a GP in the London Borough of Barnet
Contact details: First Floor, Westgate House, Edgware Community Hospital, Burnt Oak Broadway,
Edgware, HA8 0AD
Service Tel: 020 8702 5309
Service E-mail: NLFT.barnettalkingtherapies@nhs.net
What we offer
Let’s Talk Barnet IAPT (Improving Access to Psychological Therapies) offers assessments and short term therapy for people with mild to moderate low mood or anxiety. We offer face to face Cognitive Behaviour Therapy and Counseling, as well as Guided Self Help – these are shorter appointments, usually over the telephone, and focus on practical ways for people to manage their difficulties. We work together with Twining Enterprise to offer individualised Employment Support, and along with the Multilingual Wellbeing Service, offer a range of community wellbeing workshops focusing on topics such as stress management and sleep hygiene. Our team includes:
Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners (PWPs) who are skilled at helping people find practical ways to manage their difficulties.
CBT Therapists who are trained to deliver individual and group cognitive behavioural therapy.
Counselors who are trained to provide an opportunity to talk about day-to-day difficulties as well as difficulties from the past.
Therapy can take place over the phone, or face-to-face. We offer assessments and therapy in English and Farsi, with interpreters available on request for other languages.
Who the service is for
Let’s Talk Barnet IAPT (Improving Access to Psychological Therapies) offers free and confidential talking therapies to people aged 16 and over, with a Barnet GP. Common difficulties that we can treat in IAPT include:
Mild to moderate low mood
Sleeping problems
Stress
Generalised Anxiety
Social Anxiety
Panic
Agoraphobia
Specific Phobias
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Health Anxiety
We offer therapy over the phone, at our base at Westgate House based on the Edgware Community Hospital Site, and in some GP surgeries and community venues, including Finchley Memorial Hospital.
How to access our service
People can refer themselves to us directly by visiting us online
On our website there is an online referral form
Please note that Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust provides IAPT services for Barnet and Enfield. IAPT Haringey is provided by Whittington Health NHS Trust.