Community Enablement Team

The team looks at what a person can do for themselves, identifies where there is potential to develop and plans how they can be supported to do so.

 We work across the whole of Kirklees to offer targeted 1:1 support on a short term basis.

We work closely with occupational therapists, social workers, the learning disability health team and other professionals.

The work takes place in people's homes or in the community to help them to develop the skills that are important to them. These may include:

• Independent Travel Training
• Cooking and healthy eating
• Shopping
• Money management
• Development of routines
• Use of mobile phones
• Managing health and wellbeing (this may involve working alongside health professionals)

The service is free.

The Enablement team will complete a plan with you and the sessions of support that is envisaged you will need.

The Enablement worker will tend to visit you once or twice per week, although this will be discussed with you. If you are doing travel training we may need to go with you each time you do this journey.

Where possible you will always see the same person. If your Enablement worker is on holiday or is sick, your visit will be rearranged.

The Service Mission Statement is currently under review and will be shared when agreed at a later date.

• - Be a Kirklees resident
• - Have a learning disability. If they do not have a formal diagnosis we would need to be clear that the person would receive significant benefit from an enablement intervention.
• - The person needs to be motivated to engage with enablement alongside a safe environment for staff to be able to support them

Fill in our online form.

 Completing this form takes about 30 minutes.

 To complete this form you need:

• Details of the person being referred
• Details of any abusive behaviour the referred person has displayed, including substance abuse
• Contact information of any agency involved with the referred person
• Details of any risks, including relevant risk assessments
• Details of any capacity concerns
• Details of any safeguarding issues

Refer a person to the Community Enablement Team

After you have made a referral

Initial visit

One of our management team will arrange to visit you, usually at your home, to discuss your referral, explain the enablement journey and make a professional assessment whether community enablement is the best service for you

If community enablement is not suitable for you

During the initial visit it may become clear that community enablement is not the best service for you. If this is the case we will offer information and advice. We have well established partnerships with other agencies and departments throughout Kirklees and we will aim to put you in touch with the most suitable provider.