Services for adults with learning disabilities are delivered by a range of learning disability specialist professionals which include:

  • Physiotherapists
  • Psychologists
  • Psychiatrists
  • Speech and Language Therapists
  • Registered Learning Disability Nurses
  • Support staff

The team have extensive experience in the health needs of people who have a learning disability and the health inequalities they can face.

Separate pathways have been developed to focus on physical health, mental health, challenging behaviour and offending behaviour and each one includes the need to ensure that people with a learning disability are encouraged to have an annual health check and develop a health action plan.

As well as assessment and developing care and treatment plans, we can provide direct hands on support working with the individual or build capacity with those staff who are supporting the individual whether this is mainstream health services or staff working in the independent or voluntary sector.

How to refer?

The service has an open referral system which means that anyone can refer in to  the service including people with learning disabilities and family or carers. The service can be contacted:

  • through your GP
  • by contacting the team. See below for contact details.