Specialist Services
Psychiatry
The Psychiatry Service provides mental health assessments for adults with learning disabilities in an outpatient setting. The team works alongside the community adult learning disability teams in supporting adults with learning disabilities in the community.
Referrals are made by GPs.
Promote Team
The Promote Team works with individuals who have a learning disability and associated complex mental health and/or forensic needs. Our aim is to promote positive living in the community. We aim to improve the well being and quality of life of our service users to help them lead safe and independent lives.
We work closely with other services including day opportunities, community teams, adult centres and the voluntary sector. Our easy read leaflet provides more information.
A range of professionals are involved including:
- Consultant Clinical Psychologist
- Consultant Psychiatrist
- Clinical Psychologist
- Forensic Practitioner
- Mental Health Practitioners
- Speech and Language Therapist
- Occupational Therapist
- Support Workers
We provide a service Monday to Friday from 9:00am to 5:00pm and can be contacted on 028 2531 7110.
Positive Behaviour Support Service
The Positive Behaviour Support Service aims to support people with a learning disability whose behaviour presents significant concerns, by using the least restrictive approaches to enable people to maintain appropriate community placements and to lead as ordinary a life as possible.
The service is available Trustwide to adults with a learning disability and their carers.
We support people using the Positive Behaviour Support Model. We provide consultations, assessment and behaviour support plans. In addition, the service may offer training to staff teams, carers and families in order to increase their understanding of why a person may be displaying a certain behaviour and develop their skills on how to follow specific behaviour support plans.
The team has a consultant clinical psychologist, behavioural specialists, a specialist speech and language therapist, behavioural associates and support workers.
Requests for involvement are accepted directly from the community teams for people with a learning disability.
