The Learning Disabilities Community Treatment Team provides a range of specialist therapeutic interventions to people with a learning disability and support to mainstream health services to ensure they are accessible to people with a learning disability.
Ensuring that people who require learning disability specialist services and experience mental health and/or challenging behaviour have their overall health needs maintained in the community.
The service is provided by a multi-disciplinary approach including Nursing, Psychiatry, Psychology, Physiotheraphy, Occupational Therapy and (SALT) Speech and Language Therapy.
The Nursing and Multi disciplinary teams are based at Monkwearmouth Hospital.
How to get Referred
Via specialist mental health service, GP, Social Care Manager, self referral, families, LD Specialist Services
Find the location that this Service is offered at using Google Maps:
A guide for service users and carers about getting help from Learning Disability services.
The Health Transition Nurses Team LD Services work in Sunderland and offer health needs assessments and support to young people with a learning disability and complex healthcare needs to make the transition from child to adult acute health services.
An easy read information leaflet about the Health Transition Nursing Team who support young people aged 14 to 19 years old to move from children's to adult learning disabilities services.
Easy read information about the psychology team in Sunderland and how they can help in lots of different ways.
An easy read information leaflet about physiotherapy and how it can help you with your posture and movement.
Easy read information for service users about speech and language therapy.
Information leaflet about the Health Promotion Team at Monkwearmouth Hospital, who support people with learning disabilities to attend annual health checks.
Easy read information about the Epilepsy Specialist Nurse. This explains what they do and how they can help.
An Easy Read Guide to the Learning Disability Team - Community Nurses who work in three different areas, physical health, mental health and behaviour support.
