Service Detail

Sometimes hospital admission is the only option for a young person. When this happens, AID-IIT aims to reduce the chance of a prolonged admission by working in collaboration with the inpatient and local CAMHS team, and other agencies to help an admission be as useful as possible, and to support a timely and successful discharge.

Once a young person is discharged, AID-IIT aim to work with local services to support adolescents, their families and carers in order to prevent re-admission to inpatient care.

Our team puts flexibility and multi-disciplinary perspectives at the core of our work. We offer multi-disciplinary assessment and consultation across London. This may include outreach work to the young person’s home, or in-reach work on an inpatient ward. Our service includes the following disciplines:

• Clinical Psychology
• Child and adolescent psychiatry
• Nursing
• Occupational therapy
• Speech and language therapy
• Specialist teacher
• Social worker
• Project manager
• Administration support

The AID-IIT service within SCAAND has close links with the specialist outpatient component of SCAAND, as well as a number of specialist Outpatient CAMHS services including the Mental Health of Intellectual Disabilities service. Additionally, we have links with other teams within National and Specialist CAMHS, within SLaM more broadly, King’s Health Partners and the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience.

Our team specialises in complex presentations of intellectual disability and autism, which may include significant challenging behaviour, self-harm or self-injurious behaviour, severe depression and anxiety, psychosis and aggression.

We provide comprehensive assessments to inform individual care planning to meet the needs of adolescents with these complex presentations, comprehensive consultations about how to implement these care plans in local community services and briefer pieces of specialist intervention which can be handed over to local services to continue. Our service is typically involved for around a three-month period to support inpatient and community services in their work with young people and their families.
 

If this was not what you were looking for:

The SCAAND services see young people who have, or might have, neurodevelopmental disorders like autism, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder or learning disability with additional mental health or behaviour problems, as well as young people with psychological problems associated with head injury, functional conditions or genetic conditions. Our teams work together and refer between services as necessary.

This page relates to the NHS England funded AID-IIT service to support young people with Intellectual Disability and Autism Spectrum Disorder from across London who are at risk of hospital admission.

For young people who do not have a complex autism presentation, you may be looking for our specialist outpatient teams who see young people with a range of neurodevelopmental presentations:

• Autism and related disorders team
• Mental health of intellectual disabilities team
• Neuropsychiatry and challenging behaviour team
• Service for Complex Autism and Associated Neurodevelopmental Disorders (SCAAND)