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Crisis and Intensive Support Team (CaIS)Adult Learning Disability Service
Information for Health Professionals/families and carers
RDaSH leading the way with care
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A multi-professional health team providing support and treatment to adults with learning disabilities and complex needs.
Main contact number:
01302 796155
Service hours:
There is a nurse on duty from 8am to 8pm, Monday to Friday
On-call advisory service 8pm to 8am
Key people:
Managers
Clinical Lead Nurse/AMHP
Nurse Specialists
Senior Support Workers
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4 | Crisis and Intensvie Support Team (CaIS)
About our service:
The Crisis and Intensive Support Team (CaIS) are a specialist multi-professional
health team within the Doncaster Community Health Team. They support
individuals with severe challenging behaviours, mental health needs and
forensic backgrounds in need of intensive support or in times of crisis.
There is a nurse on duty from 8am to 8pm, Monday to Friday.
It is a community based service able to support people where they live, or
working with service users in community settings alongside carers and support
workers.
If a period of hospital admission is required the CaIS Team support the service
user from admission to discharge.
The team work with service users for a focused period of time with the aim of
preventing a hospital admission, or service users being placed in out-of-area
placements. The recovery pathway is followed and work towards discharge
begins from the onset of admission.
The team also work in line with Continuous Service Improvement Portfolio
Guidance, working closely alongside Doncaster Clinical Commissioning Group
(DCCG) to reduce lengthy admissions to hospital by providing structured
monitoring and personalised support.
The team can request other professionals within the service, or from outside
agencies, to work with individual service users to prevent hospital admission.
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The team:
• Psychiatrists who specialise in learning disabilities
• Psychologists who specialise in learning disabilities
• Occupational therapists who specialise in learning disabilities and sensory
processing difficulties
• The Health Action Team who work in partnership with primary care to
enable clinicians to support people with learning disabilities to access
mainstream services by making reasonable adjustments
• Community Learning Disability Nurse Team
• Section 117 Lead Nurse.
Outside agencies:
• Children services
• Social work team
• General practitioners
• Various care providers and respite services (local authority, private and NHS).
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6 | Crisis and Intensvie Support Team (CaIS)
Link Nurse Role:
The team also provide a link nurse to Doncaster based providers; this role has
been developed to encourage communication between Doncaster providers
and the Adult Learning Disability Service. Regular contact takes place between
the nurses and the providers, allowing early identification of any individuals
who may need specialist input. The team work flexibly to implement
immediate interventions or signpost referrals to relevant professionals for
specialist input. The aim is to prevent a crisis and support recovery.
CaIS pathway:
The CaIS pathway indicates different levels of interventions and reaction times
from the duty nurse who aims to respond in a timely manner.
RED +++ Immediate DangerSerious and immediate risk to self and others which may require assistance
from emergency services.
RED - High RiskTo have contact within one hour and face to face contact within one day.
Amber - Medium RiskTo have contact within one hour and face to face contact within two days.
Green - Low RiskTo have contact within three days and face to face contact within one week.
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Referrals/contacts
Referrals can be made by completing a Single Access Referral Form (SARF)
available electronically via the RDaSH website: http://www.rdash.nhs.uk/
The completed form can be emailed to: [email protected]
By post:
Learning Disabilities
2 Jubilee Close
Tickhill Road Hospital
Tickhill Road Site
Balby
Doncaster
DN4 8QH
Main Contract Number
01302 796467
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This information is correct at the time of publishing Last Reviewed: March 2019
DP8429/01.20
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