We have been working together for over ten years, initially developing our multidisciplinary work within our NHS roles. Within a Child Development Centre we developed a service using our combined professional expertise and individual specialisms, to work with children and their families who had experienced direct trauma. The forming of this small internal NHS service provided us with a foundation, valuable experience and a realisation of our shared ethos on the importance of a bespoke, compassionate and holistic approach. Families told us how powerful it was that we could jointly share our multidisciplinary multi-faceted understanding of their child’s presentation, offer a space where they felt truly listened to, and together we could consider the story right from the beginning to the current day. This then grew into us developing the Paediatric Developmental Trauma and Sensory Attachment Service, to allow us to provide greater levels of child assessment, support and understanding.
Dr Jamie Carter MBBS, BSc, DTM&H, FRCPCH, LFFLM.
I value working with Tansy and Karen as part of a multi-disciplinary team, assessing children with possible FASD and developmental trauma. I completed the Washington FASD training course in 2013 and since then have been involved in setting up a local FASD assessment and peer-review process as well as co-leading the RCPCH FASD training course. I have been involved in developing national guidance on FASD, working closely with voluntary sector organisations. I trained as a neurodevelopmental (community) paediatrician and worked in various CDCs in the NHS for 13 years, assessing children with a range of developmental and social communication conditions, children in care, and undertaking pre-adoption medical assessments.
Alongside my work with PDTSAS I am also an NHS Senior Clinical Psychologist. Much of my career and studies have revolved around the interplay between a child's innate characteristics, attachments and other life experiences, to make sense their developmental profile and related support needs. I am passionate about supporting children, young people and families affected by disrupted attachments and developmental trauma. Since qualifying I have worked in CAMHS, LD-CAMHS, Neuro-disability and Child Development Centres. I strive to make psychological assessments, formulations and support as accessible and meaningful as possible within each family's individual context. I have specialist experience of providing a wide range of psychometric/cognitive assessments and recommendations. Enhanced DBS registered with Update Service. Registered with Health Care Professions Council.
I am a Children’s Occupational Therapist with a specialist interest in
developmental trauma and advanced training in Sensory Attachment
Integration (SAI). I have worked for well over twenty-five years as an OT,
mainly as part of a multidisciplinary team involved with assessments,
interventions and training. This is with children and their families, other therapists and
professionals, and with carers and teaching staff across settings including homes,
clinics, mainstream and special schools.