Clinical support to care providers

We help you to restructure your placement fees for new young people moving in, so that the cost of our services is covered by the placing authority. Bespoke spot purchase prices are also available on request, depending on the needs of your service.

MCTS employs and supervises the clinicians, but you are involved throughout the recruitment process to ensure a good fit for your service. This means you get an in-house clinical team, tailored to your needs, but without the overheads of employing your own staff. 

Our integrated clinical and therapeutic support package offers specialist psychological consultation, guidance and support to staff teams working with children and young people who have experienced trauma. It focuses on strengthening understanding, improving practice, and ensuring care is safe, consistent and therapeutically informed. You provide the care, we provide the clinical and therapeutic support to your young people and their families, your staff team, managers and the organisation as a whole.

ATIC (Attachment and Trauma Informed Care) is our structured, research‑informed model developed from over 30 years of clinical and operational experience. It brings together evidence‑based practice, clear principles and consistent ways of working that every MCTS clinician follows. The full ATIC model includes therapy for service users and families, reflective practice with staff, supervision with leaders and managers, assessment, formulation and treatment oversight, 12 weekly assessment and review of treatment plans, support with risk management, policies and procedures. 

All MCTS clinicians are supported and overseen by senior clinicians within our ATIC framework. This ensures their work is consistent, evidence‑based and quality‑assured – you are never dependent on one individual’s personal style or interpretation.

You can, but you then rely entirely on their own training, experience and professional judgement. Without clinical expertise in‑house, it can be difficult to guide, supervise or quality‑assure their work. MCTS provides a whole team, a structured model, and built‑in clinical governance, ensuring consistency and safeguarding against single‑person dependency. 

Our work is grounded in trauma theory, attachment research, neurodevelopmental science and psychological practice. The ATIC model brings this evidence together into a consistent, structured way of working that is understood and applied across the whole clinical team.

Yes. We provide consultation and guidance following incidents, during periods of escalation, and when teams need rapid clinical insight. Our aim is to support staff understanding, stabilise situations and guide safe, trauma‑informed responses. 

We provide clear feedback, reflective summaries and measurable outcomes aligned to your goals. Services typically see improvements in staff confidence, skills, and knowledge, consistency of practice, placement stability and the quality of everyday care.

We work with residential children’s homes, fostering agencies, supported accommodation, outreach services, specialist education settings, and local authorities. Support is tailored to the needs, size and context of each service.

Your dedicated clinician is present in your service throughout the week, offering a fully integrated approach rather than occasional or ad‑hoc visits. This enables daily routines, team culture and decision‑making to be guided by trauma‑informed thinking. Support typically includes weekly individual therapy for young people, weekly or monthly reflective practice for staff, weekly leadership supervision for managers, ongoing day‑to‑day consultation while embedded in the home/service, regular wellbeing monitoring for staff, 12‑weekly clinical assessments for every young person, amber/red Flag meetings when early warning signs arise, and crisis or incident debriefs as needed. In short: you receive consistent, multi‑layered clinical support every week, woven directly into the daily life of your service.

Yes. As part of our integrated clinical package, every young person in care receives weekly individual therapy, delivered by a highly experienced HCPC‑registered psychologist or UKCP‑registered psychotherapist. Therapy is based on evidence‑based interventions and our tri‑phasic model of treatment, ensuring sessions are safe, structured and clinically robust. 

But the support doesn’t stop at the therapy hour. Because the clinician is embedded in the service throughout the week, they also work with staff, carers and managers, ensuring that therapeutic thinking is reflected across the remaining 23 hours of each day.

Yes – absolutely. You don’t need to adopt the full integrated model to access support from us. Many providers begin with smaller, targeted pieces of clinical input, such as reflective practice sessions for staff teams, therapy for a specific young person, consultation around a complex case, behaviour, or placement, leadership consultation for managers needing clinical guidance, or crisis or incident debriefs. These standalone elements can offer immediate stability, insight and improved consistency while you consider whether a fuller clinical package might be helpful in the future.

That’s absolutely fine – and actually very common. We regularly work alongside in‑house clinicians to strengthen or supplement what they offer. We’re not here to replace your clinician – we’re here to enhance what’s already working, fill any gaps and provide an evidence based model of practice that works. If you choose to become an ATIC integrated service, we would provide training, guidance, supervision and development for your clinician/s, in line with ATIC principles.