Community

The CAMHS team do not accept direct referrals. To access this service, you will need to organise a referral through Just One Norfolk. You can do this yourself or can ask a professional (such as your school, GP or community nurse) to do this for you.

The team at Just One Norfolk will look at this referral and will then send this referral through to the appropriate mental health service. Sometimes, this might not be the CAMHS team.

The CAMHS team in Great Yarmouth and Waveney considers offering assessment and treatment where a young person is:

• Registered with a GP in the Great Yarmouth and Waveney area
• Experiencing symptoms of a moderate to severe mental health difficulty across three domains of their life (including daily functioning, level of risky behaviours, and level of distress). This may involve a severe difficulties in one domain or moderate difficulties in two or more domains.
• Aged under 14 years at this time. There are currently plans in development to increase the age range and this will be updated to this web page as soon as possible.

The team take into account a range of information when making decisions about assessment and treatment. This includes previous engagement with our service, previous responses to interventions where applicable, and whether the primary difficulty may be best supported by another service.

Other services may be called upon to offer consultation and sometimes young people will benefit from an assessment with CAMHS and treatment with another service. These might include the Mental Health in Schools Team, Children's Services/Early Help, or other NHS and Voluntary services.