Community Adult Learning Disability Health Teams

April 2014. Review: April 2015

What is in this booklet? This booklet is about…

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Community Nursing

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Fighting Fit

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Occupational Therapy

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Physiotherapy

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Psychology and Behavioural Support Service

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Speech and Language Therapy

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Places to meet you

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Contact Page

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Community Nursing We are nurses and assistants called assistant practitioners. We can help you and your carers understand your health. You can talk to us about worries you have about your health. We will work together to try to help you.

We can help if you have a health condition like epilepsy. We can support you with your medicines.

We can give you easy read information about your health.

We can talk to you and important people in your life about your health. Together we can make a plan. This is called a Health Action Plan. Community Adult Learning Disability April 2014

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Advice on content, format and design has been provided by: We can help you to see other health workers e.g. your doctor, your dentist. We can tell you about other services that might help. We can support hospital staff to understand your needs if you have to go to hospital.

Speech and Language Therapy Based on initial work by Waseema Sarodia and Judi O’Driscoll, Speech and Language Therapy Students, March 2011. Updated by SLT team and health colleagues.

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We work with you about sexual health and relationships.

Some people do things to hurt themselves or others. We can help you find better ways to deal with these feelings.

We can work with you on your own. You can come with a carer/friend if you want to. Community Adult Learning Disability April 2014

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How to get in touch with us:

Fighting Fit We are the Fighting Fit team.

If you have any questions you can call: North Team 0161 861 2958 Crescent Bank Humphrey Street Crumpsall M8 9JS Central Team 0161 226 8131 Moss Side District Office Bold Street Moss Side M16 7AD South Team 0161 219 6022 Etrop Court Rowlands Way Wythenshawe M22 5RG

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We help you stay a healthy weight through being fit and active. We will help you with a healthy diet. On our first visit we will check your height and your weight.

We can help you to be more active.

We can help you if you want to go to the gym. We run starter sessions on Wednesday at Oakwood Resource Centre. We run two activity sessions every week: • On a Thursday at Sports City • On a Friday at the Sugden Centre.

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There are lots of places we can meet you We can meet with you: We can help you and your carers understand more about what you eat and drink. We can go food shopping with you. We can help you look at food labels. We can help you to choose healthier options.

At home

Or you can come to our office – North team: Crescent Bank

You can talk to us about changes you would like to make. We can give you ideas about: South team: Etrop Court

what you eat and drink

Central team: Moss Side District Office

the activities that you do.

It is your choice!

We will talk about how these things affect your health. We have groups to help you lead a healthy life. Community Adult Learning Disability April 2014

If you need help at work, at your day centre, at respite or anywhere else, we can visit you there.

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Occupational Therapy We can help if people find it hard to understand your talking. Not everyone finds talking easy. Some people need to use other ways to tell people things. These other ways are called ‘AAC’. AAC is: Signing

We are Occupational Therapists, Occupational Therapy Technicians and an Artist. We can work together to find out how you look after yourself. This finding out is called an assessment. We will assess things like: How you look after yourself. Things like washing, bathing, menu planning, shopping, making meals, managing your money.

Using pictures We will assess how you look after your home. Things like hoovering, cleaning the toilet.

Using a talker Using objects

We can help you stay safe at home. We can do this by helping you make your home safer.

If you have problems with eating and drinking, we can help you keep safe and well. Community Adult Learning Disability April 2014

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We can help you get special equipment.

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We can help you stay safe outside of your home by helping you learn to: Cross the road

Speech and Language Therapy We are Speech and Language Therapists, Speech and Language Therapy Technicians and Speech and Language Therapy Assistants. We can help you understand what other people are saying.

Use a mobile phone. We can help you say more things. We can help you feel well and good about yourself by keeping busy. We can help you find things you enjoy doing. Things like art, sports, college, work

Some people have difficulty with noises or lights or touch. We can find out more about these difficulties. We can help you cope with your difficulties.

Things like: We can help you to talk about your feelings

We can help you talk about your health.

We can help you talk about what you want to do. Community Adult Learning Disability April 2014

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Physiotherapy We are Physiotherapists and Physiotherapy Technicians.

We can help if you are having problems in your relationships.

We can help you to move more: There is always a reason people think and feel and do the things they do. Everyone is different. We will work with you to find out about the problem. This finding out is called an assessment.

Sometimes we will talk to the people who know you well to help us find out about the problem.

by offering hydrotherapy,

or

rebound therapy, When we understand the problem we will work together to think of ways to improve things.

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Psychology and Behavioural Support Service

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We are giving you special exercises to help your joints and muscles.

We can show you and your carer about how to help you move around your home safely.

We can help you when you have a poorly chest – this is called ‘chest care’.

Clinical Psychologists, Behavioural Support Workers, Trainee Clinical Psychologists and Assistant Psychologists. We can help with problems about thinking, feelings and behaviour. We can help if you are having problems with your feelings e.g. you feel very sad, angry or lonely.

We can help if you have problems with your behaviour. Things like: you break things or hurt other people or yourself.

We can help you if you have problems with your thinking. Things like: forgetting things or worrying all the time. Community Adult Learning Disability April 2014

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