Specialist Social Work Provision for Deaf People

MSDP employ specialist social workers that work with D/deaf People.  Their work involves:

• Assessment, counselling and support in relation to needs arising from deafness.
• Working with families where a child is diagnosed as having a hearing loss.
• Addressing the needs of hearing children of deaf parents.
• Counselling for newly deafened adults.
• Support to people who are deaf and who have additional disabilities.
• Support to people who are deaf and who have mental health problems.
• Co-working with, or professional advice to, colleagues from Social Services, Education, Health, Police, Probation and Voluntary Agencies.

All social workers have achieved a minimum of stage 2 CACDP and/or BSL is their first or preferred language.

Duty Social Work Hours

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