Learning Disabilities and Mental Health Needs

We have over 14 years experience of supporting people with multiple diagnoses of learning disabilities and mental health needs, including forensic histories.

Our services are all specialist and community-based, and include supported living, floating/outreach support, community based day and residential services. Our dedicated Healthcare and Therapy team liaises with local healthcare professionals to ensure that consistent and appropriate input is available. We also have excellent working relationships with community mental health and learning disability teams.

We ensure that the support we provide is flexible, based on individual need and in line with the Care Programme Approach (CPA). Person centred planning enables us to undertake detailed care and relapse prevention planning whilst measuring progress by working towards a set of realistic outcomes. These outcomes are identified by everyone we support, which is a fundamental part of gaining greater independence.

We appropriately safeguard people with complex multiple diagnoses whilst supporting them to exercise full choice and control using pro-active and positive means of managing risk including Pro-active Risk Management. We use clear, multi-agency risk assessments and strategies and high levels of supervision, where required, to facilitate inclusion.

In addition to our comprehensive mandatory training, our teams undertake specialist training on mental health and learning disabilities as part of their training programme