Overview
Monday to Friday 8:30am to 5:00pm
The Autism and Learning Disability Keyworking Service supports children and young people aged 0-25 who are diagnosed with autism or a learning disability who are at risk of entering a mental health inpatient setting or needing enhanced community support to prevent crisis.
Our keyworkers work closely with families, working creatively to break down barriers to receiving support across education, health, and social care with the aim to promote their health and wellbeing and ensure they reach their full potential.
Our promise to you
- You’ll feel informed, listened to, and involved at every stage.
- We’ll help you reduce stress and uncertainty by coordinating care and support across different services.
- We’ll support your child’s safe transition between home, community, and hospital settings if necessary.
What we do
- Work intensively and flexibly with the family to understand their identified needs earlier on in their journey so tailored interventions across health, education and social care can be in place at the right time to prevent escalation and crisis.
- Identify gaps in service, breaking down any barriers to interventions and escalating any blocks to getting the right support in place to the ICB.
- Advocate on behalf of the child/young person and parents/ carers where they lack confidence so they feel heard, validated, understood and involved in the plans being made about them.
- Improve communication across the professional network so everyone understands the barriers effecting progress and are able to work toward the same goals to prevent ongoing disintegration.
- Support with transitions and ensure appropriate adjustments are being implemented across all environments to meet a YP’s identified needs including, hospitals, education, SB provisions, home.
- Ensure hospital admissions are as short as possible and discharge plans are being made as soon as a YP is admitted to prevent delay in discharge using the 12 point discharge plan.
Nottinghamshire peer support team for the keyworking service
As part of the team, there are co-production and peer support co-ordinators whose role is to support children and young people/adults and their families to reconnect with their community, share experiences and have opportunities to attend enrichment events and meaningful activities.
There are parent/carer drop-in sessions, informative webinars and training, wellbeing workshops and craft sessions. We also have a e-newsletter which is sent four times per year. This is a county wide team with the office based in Ollerton.
For more information, please email: thekey@nottscc.gov.uk
Times and availability
Age Range: 0 - 25 year olds
Contact
Referral
Referrals come from a single point of contact, the Dynamic Support Register (DSR). To be eligible for support from a keyworker, your child must have been diagnosed as autistic or with a learning disability.
Keyworker support will be prioritised to those children and young people currently in a Tier 4 hospital setting and those identified as at risk of hospital setting admission, as defined by the DSR. The DSR holds information about young people and what areas of their care may require enhanced community support. The information helps services to work more closely together to manage a person’s support effectively and ensure good outcomes in the community.