Outreach

Due to the current Corona Virus (COVID-19) pandemic our outreach service is operating at a reduced capacity.

We can still offer some support, guidance and signposting remotely via phone or email but all face to face meetings are cancelled until further notice to reduce the risk to our clients, staff and the wider community. We ask for your patience and understanding at this uncertain time.

What is the Outreach Service?

Our Outreach Service is based at the Headway Nottingham Day Centre in Bilborough and our Outreach Worker is likely to be the first person you will meet from Headway Nottingham as they handle all new referrals. Once you have completed a referral form (or a professional working with you has referred on your behalf) to tell us more about yourself and your circumstances, our Outreach Worker will aim to visit you at home within one month. During this visit the Outreach Worker will talk to you (and your carers or loved ones) about your difficulties and the support you would like to receive. We will complete some paperwork and will then work with you to formulate a plan to help you progress.

Headway Nottingham Outreach supports throughout Nottingham and Nottinghamshire

What does the Outreach Service do?

General advice and support – we understand brain injury and how difficult it can be for you, your family and those around you; we offer a listening ear and impartial advice to those affected.
Advocacy – we offer support and representation at key meetings for example; medicals or social services assessments.
Day Centre Services – we can help you to access our day centre service where we run workshops, events and activities all working towards acceptance and recovery.
Liaising with other professionals – we understand that speaking to and understanding different professionals can be confusing and daunting, we can support with this.
Benefits advice – offered to our Day Service clients; support with accessing, applying for and navigating through the benefits process.
Sign-posting – we have good links with many other agencies, organisations and professional teams who we regularly sign-post to, should we be unable to help, or should our service be inappropriate.

What is the Outreach Service unable to do?

It is worth noting that we are not clinicians and therefore are unable to offer medical advice on any health concerns or diagnosis you may have.
We do not currently offer a counselling service and strongly recommend, should you feel you would benefit from counselling, that you contact your General Practitioner (GP).
We do not offer home help, sit in services, drop in services or personal assistants.

Though we can't help with all things, should you be having difficulties in any of these areas we are able to sign-post you to other agencies and organisations that may be able to help.

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Support for carers

Brain injury doesn't just affect the person living with the condition, it also affects those around them. Family, friends and loved ones also have to adjust to life after brain injury and it can be very difficult.
Rehabilitation & Progression

Progression, redeveloping skills and finding you again might feel a long way away after a brain injury. At our friendly and welcoming rehabilitation centre we will work with you to achieve your goals and help you reach your potential.
Referrals

At Headway Nottingham we accept referrals from all sources, be that a self referral to a referral from a professional health or social care worker. Once the referral is made we will make contact with the individual or their carer and work with them to formulate a suitable plan of progression.

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What could you do with three hours? Watch three episodes of the latest must-see series. Go out for a meal. Interact on social media. All very enjoyable to do, but will any of those positively impact your local community and simultaneously enhance your sense of self-worth? Volunteering with Headway Nottingham will, and three hours a week is all we need from you.
Referrals

At Headway Nottingham we accept referrals from all sources, be that a self referral to a referral from a professional health or social care worker. Once the referral is made we will make contact with the individual or their carer and work with them to formulate a suitable plan of progression.
Charlotte Leask (Services Manager)
Outreach

Our Outreach Worker is likely to be the first person you will meet from Headway Nottingham as they handle all new referrals. Our Outreach Worker will aim to visit you at home within one month and work with you to formulate a plan to help you progress.
Where we work

At Headway Nottingham we offer support to people who live in the City of Nottingham and the County of Nottinghamshire.
Mission Statement

The principle objectives of Headway Nottingham are to promote the understanding of all aspects of brain injury. To provide information, support and services to those living in Nottinghamshire who have sustained a brain injury, along with their families and carers.
Ette's Story

In January 2011 I suffered a TIA which affected the right hand side of my face. Although doctors didn’t think this would happen again, in June 2011 I suffered a stroke.
What is brain injury?
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