Children’s Health and Wellbeing Team

 

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Role Of Service

The Children’s health and wellbeing team is made up of a children and young person’s mental health practitioner, two children’s health and wellbeing navigators, and a trainee children’s wellbeing practitioner. They support children, young people and their families/carers with long term health conditions, particularly neurodevelopmental conditions or mental health concerns (with and without diagnosis).

Children’s Health & Wellbeing Navigators

  • Support with long-term health needs
  • Establishing where the child/young person and their family are in the system and provide support for ongoing needs
  • Offer advice, support and guidance through referral process by working alongside relevant agencies
  • Support in the interim of referrals through connecting with community assets
  • Connect with practice safeguarding leads where there are safeguarding concerns
  • Inform and encourage the child/young person and their family to continue to access the CHWN service throughout their journey rather than making GP appointments, where there is a non-clinical concern

Children & Young Person’s Mental Health/Wellbeing Practitioners:

  • Accessing appropriate services and support within the local community. Sometimes this may include onward referral or signposting to other mental health services (‘CAMHS’), voluntary services, charities, and support groups
  • Providing short-term therapeutic interventions for mild to moderate mental health needs
  • Supporting children, young people and families with working towards goals which are important to them
  • Liaising with other agencies involved, for example schools, to ensure a joined-up approach when supporting the child
 

How to be referred to our Children’s Health & Wellbeing Team:

If you feel you would benefit from the support of this team, please let your GP practice know. They will be able to refer you.

For more information visit our Frequently Asked Questions page.

 

Children's Health and Wellbeing team member