Adult Deaf Services

The team consists of:

• adult psychiatrists
• learning disability psychiatrist
• mental health and learning disability nurses
• occupational therapists
• speech and language therapist
• social workers
• psychoanalytic psychotherapists
• clinical and counselling psychologists
• community mental health nurses
• outreach workers (clinical case managers)
• deaf community support workers
• admin and secretarial staff.

Adult Deaf Services provides:

• 15-bed inpatient unit,
• psychological therapies and assessment,
• multi-disciplinary community team,
• assertive outreach community support (London only).

We provide assessment, treatment and interventions for a full range of mental illness, behavioural and psychological problems in adult with severe to profound hearing loss.  We also work with deaf people with visual impairment.

Using psychosocial interventions and promoting recovery and social inclusion, we encourage user and carer involvement in creating care packages.

Regular clinics are  held in the Ipswich, Norwich, Canterbury, Maidstone, Bromley and London areas.  Plans are underway to expand and develop more clinics in other areas outside London.

Funding

All London services users are funded by London PCTs (London Consortium).

Out of London services users are funded by either block contract or named patient service agreement (NPSA).