What the service does
Who provides the service
How to access the service
Opening hours
Location of service
What the service does
- A specialist consultation and therapeutic support service within Belfast Trust
- Providing consultation and support to professionals working with care experienced children and young people (in residential care, foster placements) and to adopted children and young people.
- Develop and deliver training, including, for example, on attachment theory and the impact of developmental trauma.
- Direct therapy with children and young people, as well as direct work with parents and caregivers.
Why do people use your service
- Psychological perspective on all levels of the child’s wider care experiences
- Therapeutic Support
- Assessment and intervention
- Advice and signposting
Service mission
Therapeutic Support Service aims to promote placement stability and emotional wellbeing through nurturing key relationships, highlight the importance of attachment and the impact of early experiences of trauma, and bring a psychological perspective to all levels of a child’s wider care experiences.
Working together
- We aim to work together for the best outcome for looked after children
- We work across Health and Social Care and with other external organisations and agencies, recognising that leadership is the responsibility of all.
Excellence
- We aim to commit to being the best we can be in our work, aiming to improve and develop services to achieve positive changes.
- We deliver safe, high quality, compassionate care and support.
Openness and honesty
- We aim to be open and honest with each other and act with integrity and candour.
Compassion
- We are sensitive, caring, respectful and understanding towards those we care for and support and our colleagues.
We listen carefully to others to better understand and take action to help them and ourselves.
Who provides the service
Services are provided in TSS by Clinical Psychologists, Child and Adolescent Psychotherapists, and Specialist Therapeutic practitioners
How to access the service
- Phone lines are open Monday to Friday 9am-5pm – contact number 02895043070.
- We do have an answerphone when the lines are not open which is checked every morning and evening.
- Roisin O’Neill or Anne McKenna (Team Secretaries) will answer the phone and take messages which will then be passed on to the relevant team members
- Direct dial numbers are not given out.
Appointment scheduling
- Services are accessed via the child or young person’s social worker. TSS does not accept referrals from outside agencies.
- Once referred through an internal pathway the first appointment will be an IPNM (Initial Professional Network Meeting)
Types of Appointments: (Face to face and virtual via Microsoft Teams)
- Case Consultations
- Professional Network Meeting
- Case reviews
- Reflective Practice
- Individual therapeutic work including child and adolescent psychotherapy
- Collaborative work with social workers to develop and deliver training
- Direct work with carers to help understanding the needs of the child and potential impact of trauma and disrupted attachment
Opening hours
Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm, excluding bank holidays. The service does not operate at the weekend.
Location of service
The service is located at the Everton Complex of the Crumlin Road.
- Everton Complex, 585-587, Crumlin Rd, Belfast, BT14 7GB
If you are driving there are 2 car parks. There is a car park located off the Crumlin Road with access to the front of the Everton Complex where you will find the reception. There is a second car park located at the back of the Everton Complex off the Ardoyne Road. However, you will need to take a short 5 minute walk down the Ardoyne road and back up the Crumlin Road to enter the main reception. There is no car parking charges.