Health Services

Our healthcare team consists of qualified therapists and clinical specialists, who will work with you to develop an individual learner support package and help you access your curriculum.

They work together to assess your needs and develop specialist programmes and treatments in order to improve your quality of life.

Supporting you to achieve your goals

Our Health Service now includes our care team who will be with you every step of the way, whether you are a day or residential student, and our clinical team who will support any medical needs that you have.

In addition to our Health Services teams our student liaison officer will focus on your wellbeing and our transitions team will help to track your progress.

College student Nathan working with a teacher.

Clinical Team

Our team ensure that any clinical needs you may have are met safely and effectively through comprehensive individualised care plans and risk assessments. The clinical team work closely with you, your family or carers and any specialists involved in your care to ensure any clinical interventions are delivered safely on site.

The team also work closely with the team of staff caring for you, offering support with other areas of health including nutrition, pressure area care and oral health
care. Depending on need, we can help you to access appropriate external services which may support you with specific requirements. The clinical team also play a role in education and ensure that resources for health promotion are available in formats that you can understand and use effectively. This may include social stories or easy
read resources to help improve your experiences of healthcare services.

Working together with you

Depending on need, we can help you to access appropriate external services which may support you with specific requirements. The Clinical team also play a role in education and ensure that resources for health promotion are available in formats that you can understand and use effectively. This may include social stories or easy read resources to help improve students’ experiences of healthcare services.

College student Matthew with his arm around the head of his support worker.

Care Team

Our care team is instrumental in helping you to access our college programme. Whether you are a day or residential student, we will ensure you get personalised support that is right for you. Our care teams are trained and competent to deliver safe, effective and responsive care. Each day you will be greeted at college by a member of the care team who will support you to prepare for the college day. You will access a range of sessions throughout the day, and we will ensure you have the right amount of support, and your care needs are fulfilled.

As well as understanding and supporting your different needs, our dedicated care team will help you build the skills you need to communicate to the wider world. We will help you make yourself heard and understood so that you can build on your independence. Our care team works closely with colleagues from our education, clinical and therapy teams to ensure you get the most out of your time with us and help you achieve your goals.

About Our Therapy Sessions

Therapy is delivered where it will have the greatest
benefit for you. Integrated therapy occurs in various
locations based on the relevant or natural setting
for the skill to occur. For example, developing fine
motor control skills in a practical cooking lesson.
By delivering therapy at the appropriate time and
location you can learn skills in context, which
helps you to better generalise and transfer the
skills into other situations

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