The Enhanced Outreach team is a tier three service, part of Somerset NHS Foundation Trust’s Child & Adolescent Mental Health Service. We work closely with our community mental health teams and also provide support to our community eating disorder service, forensic CAMHS, national deaf CAMHS, CAMHS Liaison team, and our Somerset team for early psychosis.

We have a good understanding of the many therapeutic approaches that help to support a wide range of difficulties. Where possible we would try to allocate a clinician with the skill base that best meets the needs you shared with us at our first meeting or in the referral sent to us.

We work across Somerset, providing brief interventions to young people who might need our teams urgently, as well as their families and carers. We support people when they are most unwell with a range of mental health difficulties, acute mental distress, high levels of complex risk, self-injury, suicidal thoughts, and intent.

The team is made up of registered and unregistered clinicians, including mental health nurses, social workers, occupational therapists, specialist child & adolescent psychiatrists, clinical psychologists, child and family support workers, team secretaries, team managers and an operational manager who oversees the whole service.

Type of provision

Specialist - This is for a small group of people with significant special educational needs and disabilities and their families