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What is the Intensive Support Function (ISF)?
The ISF works as part of the Community Learning Disability teams, and might ask other professionals to help a person with their behaviours.
The ISF aims to stop people with Learning Disabilities going into hospital when they have behaviours that can be hard to manage.
Who is in the team?
In the team are:
- Learning Disability Nurses
- Clinical Psychologist
- Assistant Psychologists
- Assistant Practitioner
- Support Workers.
The ISF know a lot about behaviours and helping people understand them.
The ISF is a team that gives extra help to people when they have behaviours that can be hard to manage.
The ISF will help to understand why the behaviours are happening.
The ISF want to help people learn new skills and improve their everyday life.
Behaviours can be hard for the person who is using them. Usually we can work together to find new or different ways of working.
The team work with the families and staff too. We want everyone to work as a team to make things better.
The team will ask questions and spend lots of time with the person and their family and staff to try and understand what is happening.
If the person has a nurse or health professional already, the ISF will work with them too.
The ISF will work with the person and other important people to make a Positive Behaviour Support plan. This is sometimes called a PBS plan.
A PBS plan helps people understand why the behaviours are happening, and what can be done to help the person.
The ISF can also do things like staff training to help people understand, and help people learn about the best way to help.
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Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust listens and responds to patients and their carers to help improve the services we deliver.
If you have any comments, compliments or concerns you can speak with a member of staff or contact our Patient Advice and Liaison Service (PALS) and Complaints Team.
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