The Isle of Wight Community Learning Disability Team provides health and social care to adults who meet eligibility criteria and who live on the Isle of Wight, or who are under our care and placed in a mainland residential or secure unit.
About the service
The team provides health and social care to adults and is made up of both health and social care professionals. The team also provides an Adult ADHD Diagnostic service. The team is multidisciplinary and consists of the following professionals:-
- Care Co-ordinator
- Community Learning Disability Nursing
- Hospital LD Liaison Nurse
- Support workers
- Physiotherapy (for people with profound and severe learning disabilities)
- Occupational Therapy
- Psychiatry
- Psychology
What we do
The team operates an integrated service with the local authority and its mission is to:-
‘Support, enable and empower people with learning disabilities to become active citizens, by living socially valued and inclusive lives and to help people be accepted and respected for who they are’
This is achieved through:-
- A facilitative model of support
- Improving access to mainstream services
- Maintain and enhancing the health and wellbeing of people
- Reducing health inequalities experienced
- Providing specialist help, advice and clinical support to people
- Working with individuals, families and carers
The team is multidisciplinary and consists of the following professionals:-
- Care Co-ordinator
- Community learning disability nursing
- Hospital LD Liaison Nurse
- Support workers
- Physiotherapy (for people with profound and severe learning disabilities)
- Occupational Therapy
- Psychiatry
- Psychology
- Speech and Language Therapy
The work of the team falls into the following main areas:
Prevention:
- Support for people with learning disabilities to lead healthy lifestyles
- Screening and early intervention designed to prevent the need for unplanned health or other services (including hospital admissions)
- Provide training (including bespoke) for families, statutory and 3rd sector organisations on supporting people with learning disabilities
Assessments and Interventions:
- Person-centred assessments including continuing health care assessments
- Mental health and psychological assessments and interventions
- Specialist nursing, physiotherapy, OT and speech and language therapy assessments and interventions relating to learning disabilities
- Assessment and interventions for people with behaviours that challenge
Case Coordination:
- Develop, monitor and review of personalised support plans and care packages
- Preparation of information for continuing care panels and MH tribunals
- Liaison with statutory and 3rd sector organisations
Family and Carer support:
- To provide active advice to families and carers in support of people with learning disabilities as equal partners.
Accessing the service
You can make a referral to the team by:-
- Using the Community Learning Disability referral form
- Self referral by service users
- Referrals from GPs or other health professionals, Local Authority, or from families and carers preferably using the referral form and via email into the Learning Disabilities mailbox: iownt.DisabilitiesAdmin.Learning@nhs.net
If it is not clear that the person being referred will meet our criteria, then we suggest completing our screening tool and send that with the referral to save time in this having to then be sent out for completion.
How to find us
Community Learning Disability Team
Sandown Civic Centre Building
Barrack Block
The Broadway
Sandown
Isle of Wight
PO36 9EA
Contact information
Telephone: 01983 534243
Monday to Friday: 9am to 4.30pm (closed on bank holidays)
If you need support outside of these hours then please call NHS 111.