Children’s Services and Adult
Learning Disability Services
Children’s Services and Adult
Most referrals to the IST are internal referrals and come from the Community Team for Learning Disabilities (CTLD). This is usually when it is felt that the person’s needs require more intensive support at that time.
Internal referrals are discussed at a weekly staff team meeting and are allocated to two members of the team to complete an ‘IST assessment’. This should happen within 7 days and the aim is to decide whether IST needs to be involved at this moment in time. This assessment should involve the people who are part of the service user’s care and is a conversation about what the current needs are.
External referrals tend to come from care providers or those working alongside the service user. However, we also accept referrals from services users and family members.
The decision as to whether somebody meets the criteria for the IST is based on the assessment process.
We work with people with learning disabilities, their carers, families and the wider health and social care community.
We are an inpatient unit for people with a learning disability with additional mental health needs, whose needs cannot be managed within the community.
Our learning disability services offer specialist health support for people with a learning disability whose needs cannot be met through mainstream services.
"When I’m in crisis, I always know IST will be at the end of the phone."
