Sensory Disability Services

We are a team of specialist staff who offer services to children and adults and include those who are:

• Deaf
• Hard of hearing or have an acquired hearing loss
• Have difficulties with Tinnitus
• Certified Severely Sight Impaired
• Certified Sight Impaired
• Visually Impaired
• Deaf/ Blind (dual sensory loss)
• Carers assessments

 

The Sensory Disability Services are delivered locally through qualified and skilled staff teams comprising of:

• Team Leaders
• Social Workers
• Rehabilitation Workers
• Environmental Equipment Officers
• Floating Support Workers
• Community Access Workers
• Admin / clerical support

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Contacts

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• Routes to access the service

  We operate an open referral system; a referral for services may be made in writing, by telephone or in person. Referrals are accepted from individuals, carers, family members or health care professionals. The referrals are screened to ensure they are appropriate and can benefit from access to services.

• Referral criteria

  Referral to the service

  • A person with significant sight loss ( significant is agreed to mean a sight loss that cannot be corrected by spectacles)

  AND

  • Requires services and supports in coping with their sight loss
  • Lives within the SHSCT area

  OR

  • The carer of a person wth a sight loss who requires an assessment relating to their caring role

   

   

   

  • A person who is Deaf
  • A person with a significant hearing loss (significant is agreed to mean requiring hearing aids following referral to and assessment by local Audiology Department
  • A person who has Tinnitus

  AND

  • Requires services and supports in coping with deafness or hearing loss
  • Lives within the SHSCT area

  OR

  • A carer of a person with a sight loss who requires an assessment relating to their caring role
• Leaflets
• COVID-19 specific information

  As staff are wearing masks this can create a barrier for communication. All alterative measures will be discussed to reduce the barriers to communication in line with infection prevention control

• Videos
• Makaton
• News items

  A quarterly newsletter for service users with a visual impairment is available in talking format.

• Service user/carer testimonials
• Advocacy Services and contacts
• Newsletters
  • Vision forum
  • News and Views
  • quartly newsletter