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    Under-25s Learning Disabilities Community Team - Learning Disabilities Youth CAMHS

    • LD YOUTH CAMHS is a specialist multidisciplinary team supporting children and young people up to the age of 25, where there is evidence of a learning disability and concerns about mental health, or distressed behaviours related to learning disability and where these needs cannot be met in mainstream services despite reasonable adjustments. The service is available to those who are living in the Waveney area and registered with a Suffolk GP.

    • Service Manager Lead: Pete Bolam
    • Service Contact: Telephone on 01502 535 000
    • Address:
      1 Airey Close,  Lothingland, Oulton Broad, NR32 3JQ
    • Service hours: This service is available Monday - Friday from 9:00 until 17:00.

    What this service offers

    The team consists of learning disability nurses, clinical psychologists, support workers, an occupational therapist, systemic practitioner, assistant psychologist and psychiatrist.  We work from our base at 1 Airey Close in Oulton Broad, in schools and in the community.  We offer the following:

    • Case management - working with young people and their families/network to move towards their goals, stabilization, safety planning and risk management
    • Individual therapy for children & adolescents selected from a variety of approaches including; cognitive behavioural, narrative and acceptance and commitment therapy
    • Therapeutic work with families informed by systemic approaches
    • Groups for young people and for parent/carers
    • Indirect work with schools, residential settings and other care providers
    • Medication where above interventions alone are not sufficient
    • Cognitive assessment (where this can inform formulation or support intervention work)
    • Neurodevelopmental assessment where the young person is already under our service
    • Duty Clinician for urgent consultation
    • Consultation to education and social care services and other NSFT teams 

    The team will assess urgent referrals to the service within 72 hours.   

    The team will assess all routine referrals within 28 days of referral. 

    Access this service

    Referrals to the Under-25s Learning Disabilities Community Team can be made via your GP, social worker, teacher or any other professional working with the child or young person.  

    The criteria for a referral is that the young person:  

    • Has a diagnosed learning disability, or evidence of significant impairment of intellectual functioning and adaptive/social functioning with an age of onset before adulthood  
    • Is living in the Waveney area and registered with a Suffolk GP  
    • Is experiencing emotional, mental health and/or behavioural issues.  

    Referrers can contact the team on 01502 535000 to discuss whether we are the most appropriate service to refer the young person to.

    Visiting and onsite facilities

    The Under-25s Learning Disabilities Community Team are based at:  

    1 Airey Close, Lothingland, Oulton Broad, Suffolk, NR32 3JQ  

    Free parking is available at this clinic site which is a single-story building with wheelchair access. 

    We also work within homes, schools and other community settings, according to the needs of the young person and their family.

    How this service support carers including friends and family

    The Under-25's Learning Disabilities Community Team works closely with the young person's network.  We often carry out initial assessments with family only, to provide a space to talk freely.  We involve parents and carers in planning and reviewing treatment.  

    When families need more support our team will work with other agencies such as Children's Services to help organise this. We will also provide information about other organisations who work with young people and can refer to other services as required.

    Urgent help

    If you are a service user and are in crisis and need support urgently you can contact your service on the number which will have been provided.  

    Call 111 and select the mental health option to speak to our 24 hour mental health crisis line.

    If you are with someone who has attempted suicide, call 999 and stay with them until the ambulance arrives. 

    If anyone is at serious risk of harm, call 999 and ask for the police. 

    For non-life threatening medical situations, call NHS111 on 111.  

    For more information, see Help in a Crisis.

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