Our service is made up of Health and Social Work professionals. It is for Adults, 18 and over, who have a diagnosed learning disability.
What is a Learning Disability?
A Learning Disability is a lifelong condition that affects the way a person understands information, how they can communicate, how they learn skills and how they cope independently.
How can we help?
For adults with a diagnosed learning disability in Inverclyde, we can offer help in a number of ways. This can include accessing community support, help to manage at home, support with managing physical and mental health. This normally includes assessment, treatment and care management. The person with Learning Disabilities is encouraged as much as possible to make decisions about their own care.
Our Team
Administration Staff
Support to make referrals, contact team members, make and change appointments, sending out documents to you.
Nursing
Provide advice, care, and education to help understand your health and any conditions, support to access health services and appointments, monitoring for changes in your physical and mental health.
Occupational therapy
Support people to safely look after themselves at home by providing assessment and education around independent living skills, finding the right activities for you, supporting accessibility and adaptation within homes to enable participation and inclusion in daily life activities.
Physiotherapy
Support people to have a healthy and active lifestyle. To ensure people are able to walk safely, assessing and providing care and advice with any issues around this. Assessing need for equipment when there are issues and providing care and advice around good posture and best practice for those with mobility equipment.
Psychiatry
Assess and treat mental health conditions, through tailored support and medication management. Provide assessment and diagnosis for conditions like Autism, ADHD, Dementia, etc.
Psychology
Support people to understand their feelings, behaviours they can’t understand or need help to manage, issues with relationships. Provide care and education on Mental Health Conditions like Addiction, Anxiety, Depression, Bipolar Disorder, etc.
Social Work
Assess needs to work out what support people need to live in the community. Provide information on keeping safe, managing finances, and guidance around processes for Guardianship and Appointeeship. Supporting people with their housing and care provisions, support to enter further education or work options. Promoting independence so people can take part in activities whilst monitoring their safety and raising concerns when needed.
Speech and Language Therapy
Support people to communicate the best they can and how other people communicate with them. Assessing for issues with speech and also with eating and drinking. Making Information easier to understand.
Dietetics
Provide weight management support, advice on healthier diets, assessments for and issues with eating and equipment for eating.
How to be Referred
We have an open referral process: this means referrals to the service may come from a variety of sources including Healthcare Workers, Social Work Services, Voluntary Organisations as well as adults and/or their Families & Carers. All referrals should be made with our referral form linked below and sent to: cldt@inverclyde.gov.uk
Frequently Asked Questions
What happens once I’m referred?
Your referral is discussed at our weekly team meeting and if accepted is allocated to the most appropriate professionals. You will received a call back to discuss this referral and be updated with next steps.
What if I don’t have a diagnosis of a Learning Disability?
You will not be eligible for our services.
We are not a diagnostic service but can provide screening or sign – post you to the appropriate service.
Community Mental Health Teams, collocated with Social Work colleagues, providing care and treatment to adults aged 18 to 65 years who have severe and or enduring mental health problems who live in East Renfrewshire.
Teams consist of nurses psychiatrists, psychologists, occupational therapists, health care assistants, social workers and admin staff.
Treatment is agreed and planned in conjunction with service users and carers, with a recovery based approach.
Elderly Mental Health
The service is designed to specifically meet the needs of clients in the Eastwood area, requiring input from mental health services, we prioritise the needs of clients with severe and enduring mental illness and dementia, designing and implementing a framework of care in which the client and carer are central We also provide services to those with mild to moderate mental illness where appropriate.
We use a multi-disciplinary approach to support clients and their carers, liaise with other professional bodies and the voluntary sector, we aim to prevent hospital admissions through community home based care, and look to support clients through the discharge process from psychiatric hospital.
Our multi disciplinary team offers a flexible needs led service, which includes specialised therapeutic group/individual work on a sessional basis.
The following services are planned to be relocated to Barr Street Health Hub in May 2025. More details will follow in due course.
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Within the Princess Royal Maternity Hospital we have an Alongside Midwifery Unit, also known as our AMU. This is our hospitals midwife led unit which we are recommending to all women that are low risk of labour and birth complications.
The birthing rooms within the unit are designed to have a homely and relaxing feel and are equipped with mood lighting, speakers and aromatherapy diffusers. We also have lots of equipment to support you in upright and active birth including birthing balls, CUB chairs and large birthing pools. Within the unit we can offer gas and air, morphine and water immersion for pain relief and we can also support you in waterbirth.
The unit is minutes away from labour ward should you request any alternative pain relief such as an epidural or if you or your baby require any additional support. Please talk to your midwife at your next appointment if you are interested in using our AMU for your labour and birth.
Changes to NHSGGC Maternity Visiting and Support from Partners
To ensure we’re maximising rest periods for women staying at our maternity wards, we have changed when partners, key supporters, friends and family can visit.
The AMU at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital (QEUH) is a wonderful, new exciting Midwifery led birthing unit situated alongside our very popular Labour Suite. We have 3 ensuite rooms available, 2 have state of the art birthing pools. We, as a Team, encourage all pregnant women with no antenatal risk factors to experience intrapartum Midwife led care and birth their babies within our AMU.
The rooms are comfortable and spacious with space to mobilise during labour, a birthing couch and recliner chairs are supplied for those times when our labouring women wish to rest. However, upright and active positions are encouraged during labour and birth. Aids such as peanut balls birthing balls, ballet bars and rebozo sling with chair is available to facilitate this. Hydrotherapy pools in the rooms are a fantastic option for not only pain relief but also to aid comfort and support a weightless freedom of movement which helps our women get their bodies into optimal positions to birth their babies. Our staff are trained to welcome your little ones into the world underwater if this is your preferred birth plan.
We encourage all our women to eat and drink throughout labour, so please remember to pack your favourite energy boosting snacks into your bag.
We have Bluetooth speakers in the rooms for your birthing playlist. The speakers also have vibrant laser lights should you wish this for your environment. We also provide oil diffusers. We can provide some aromatherapy oils to diffuse but if you have a preferred scent then please bring it with you. Fairy lights and battery operated candles are in all AMU rooms.
Pain relief options within the AMU are hydrotherapy, gas and air, TENS and morphine injections. If you wish to use hypnotherapy/meditation techniques during your labour our staff are more than happy to support you. We would encourage you to take the time to consider your plans and document them into your BadgerNotes birth plan, this way all your care providers will know your wishes in advance.
We will listen to your babys heartbeat every 15 minutes in the first stage of labour and every 5 minutes in the second stage of labour using a pinard stethoscope and/or a handheld doptone machine. If we find your baby needs some further monitoring then a wireless CTG machine will be commenced for at least 20 minutes. If we have any concerns during your labour, fully informed discussions with yourself and birthing partner will take place prior to a possible transfer to obstetric led care and your allocated Midwife will remain with you at all times.
Once your baby is born and all is well you may be offered the opportunity to go home that day. We encourage a minimum of 6 hours after birth to stay and have a rest in our department. During this short stay your baby would have a hearing screen as standard, a full neonatal examination, we would support your choice of feeding and supervise this if required, you would have some observations taken and if all remains well then you should be spending your first night as a family in your own home. During some very busy periods this option is not always available but we always aim to provide it.
If you are interested in chatting to us about our AMU at QEUH please speak with your named midwife.
Changes to NHSGGC Maternity Visiting and Support from Partners
To ensure we’re maximising rest periods for women staying at our maternity wards, we have changed when partners, key supporters, friends and family can visit.
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