Enhanced Care Unit - West Midlands Child & Adolescent Mental Health Services

Toucan West Midlands CAMHS Provider Collaborative covers a population of children and young people within the West Midlands commissioned CAMHS geographical footprint (inclusive of any Natural Clinical Flows into Region from bordering Provider Collaboratives). Children and young people inclusive of ages 13 to 17 (with those under 13 considered on a case-by-case basis) who are registered and registrant with a GP in the West Midlands presenting with acute mental illness requiring PICU level psychiatric care. This will include those young people with diagnosed co-morbid Autism Spectrum Condition (ASC) and/or eating disorders (ED) and be inclusive of a requirement for nasogastric (NG) interventions. Service Aims: • The service will offer an enhanced therapeutic environment and level of care. The clinical model will be trauma responsive, sensory adjusted to provide autism sensitive care • and will be skilled to work with a diagnosis where disordered eating features are a risk factor. • Deliver an intensive level of care, through specialist care planning and risk assessment with a skilled MDT. The service aim is ensuring that young people are stepped down as soon as clinically appropriate from highly restrictive levels of care. • The service aims to provide a specialist inpatient option for young people in a clinical pathway of care for young people who might otherwise be referred to a Low Secure pathway of care due to a lack of suitable options. ECU will prevent unnecessary escalation by offering intensive, needs-led support in a less restrictive environment.