University of Surrey are looking for a Research Fellow to develop phase two of their Together Project funded by Health Education England South East Region Intellectual Disabilities Programme and National Institute for Health Research Applied Research Collaboration in Kent, Surrey and Sussex.

Phase 1 of the Together Project co-produced an intervention designed to support the delivery of good maternity care to people with learning disabilities.  In Phase 2 of the Together Project, the intervention will be implemented and evaluated in practice within local maternity systems in the south east of England. 

For more details please see https://jobs.surrey.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx?ref=035021 

At the last Community online event, Carrie Jackson – impACT, UEA facilitated a discussion with participants about what is required from our health and social care professionals in the future.

To do this, national and international leaders were gathered to share their experiences of practice and research. 

Christine-Koulla Burke and Peter Allum from the Foundation of People with Learning Disabilities shared their work on workforce development.

Paul McClusky and Sue Bridges talked about employing people with learning disabilities as experts by experience in Norfolk and Suffolk.

Professor Ruth Northway talked about the development of the All Wales Health Profile.

The final presentation was from Arianwen Selway and HMP & YOI Healthcare Team. 

Three questions provided a basis for the subsequent discussion:-

1. What knowledge and skills do we want the future care support and health professional staff to have when they qualify?
2. What kind of roles would we expect them to have and in what settings?
3. What do we need to do differently that puts people with lived experience in the driving seat for change?

The Community Steering Group are using to the resulting contributions to develop a workforce framework. 

Thanks to Carrie, and all the speakers.

Daniel Marsden

 

The KSS LDCoP had their first webinar event on 28th April 2021, which was recorded and uploaded to YouTube. Please see the videos below:

Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust are advertising two vacancies for Community Learning Disabilities Nurses via the NHS Jobs service, please follow the links below for details.

Community LDN – Band 5

Community LDN – Band 6

For further information regarding these roles, please contact either Stephanie Smith, Lead Community Nurse or Sharon Conibeer, Team Manager on 01372 202100 or 01737 288800.