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Community Learning Disability Team
Highfield House
Northfield Terrace
Elgin
IV30 1NE

Tel: 01343 562111
Email: learning.disability@moray.gov.uk

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Learning Disabilities

Health and Social Services Working in Partnership

What does the Learning Disability Team do?

The team provides a service to adults in Moray who have a learning disability, and to their families and carers.

Our aim is to enable all adults with a learning disability to lead as full a life as possible and for them, together with their parents and carers, to reach their full potential.

What Services do we Provide?

  • Helping people with a learning disability to live independently by arranging for support in their own home and in the community.
  • Support people with a learning disability who live with carers by arranging support at home or by providing respite services.
  • Arrange residential care for people with a learning disability who need it.
  • Support people with a learning disability who have specialist health needs.
  • Support people with a learning disability who may have a mental health problem.
  • Help people with both a learning and physical disability to remain as independent as possible.
  • To provide information to people with learning disabilities to help them achieve a healthy lifestyle.

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Who is on the Team?

Community Care Officer/ Local Area Coordinators

  • Carry out single shared assessments.
  • Assess individual needs and plan the support they need to live safely e.g. respite, day centre etc.
  • Help people access local voluntary services.
  • Provide a duty social worker for people without a social worker.

Community Learning Disability Nurses

  • Aim to make sure that people with a learning disability have access to medical advice and care when they need it.
  • Assessment of daily living skills.
  • Involved in the provision of specialist health clinics for people with a learning disability.
  • Educating and promoting healthy lifestyles.

Psychologists

  • Carry out intellectual assessment on people with a learning disability.
  • Provide staff training for carers of people with a learning disability.
  • Support other health care professionals and work individually with clients on issues such as sexuality and challenging behaviour.

Speech and Language Therapists

  • Help families and staff members to communicate with people with a learning disability.
  • To assess issues with eating and drinking.

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Psychiatrist

Provides a consultation-based service for clients with both a Learning Disability mental health problems incorporating medication reviews

Dietetics

  • Provides dietary assessment.
  • Staff training and support for special dietary needs.

Physiotherapy

  • Involved in the assessment of people with a learning disability.
  • Provide treatment programs to cover all aspects of physical mobility.

Occupational Therapy

  • Assessment of functional ability of everyday tasks.
  • Provision of specialist equipment where required.
  • Advice and guidance regarding environmental issues.

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Who can make a referral to the team?

Anyone can make a referral to the Moray Community Learning Disability Team.

You can make a referral by phone, letter or come into the office to see the duty Care Officer

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What happens next?

  • An initial assessment will be done to ensure that our service is the right for you.
  • A team member will then carry out a fuller assessment to find out what therapies or support could benefit you.
  • We will listen to your views and those of your carer, if you have one, throughout this process.
  • We will treat information confidentially within the team. If we need to share information outside the team, we will talk with you about this first.

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