Thanks to various Community members for sharing this new toolkit from the Royal College of Emergency Medicine for working with people with learning disabilities.
Emergency care toolkit
New employment opportunity with Bemix
A new opportunity has arisen to support the development of leaders in Kent and Medway for the delivery of the Oliver McGowan Training.
Bemix, along with partners, Kent Autistic Trust, Aucademy and Canterbury Christ Church University have recently been awarded the Kent and Medway Integrated Care Board contract to deliver the Oliver McGowan Training for the next two years. As a result they are looking to grow their team to support trainers with lived experience and facilitators.
To find out more click through to the Bemix website at https://www.bemix.org/outreach-and-support-lead-learning-disability-and-autism
Further opportunities will be shared in the coming months for people with learning disabilities, autistic people and training facilitators to become NHS England approved Oliver McGowan Trainers and part of the cascade of training in Kent and Medway.
Community of Practice Annual Conference 2024
The Community’s Steering Group is pleased to announce this year’s annual conference will take place on 4th December at Canterbury Christ Church University’s Medway campus.
We plan to share a flyer and call for abstracts/contributions in September, in the meantime please block the day out in your diary.
Learning Disability events at Canterbury Christ Church in September.
Canterbury Christ Church will host two more Learning Disability and Autism knowledge mobilisation events in September, continuing the university’s commitment to develop it’s offer to this specialised workforce in Kent and Medway and beyond.
These in person events are free and are aimed particularly at those that are working with people with learning disabilities and autistic people. For more details and booking please see below.
LDA Workforce events Sept 24Learning Disability Nursing Research – Call for participants
Academic and researcher at London South Bank University – Renee Francis is undertaking a project to understand the factors that influence learning disabilities nurses working in non-learning disabilities specific services.
Renee’s study seeks to explain how perceptions of professional identity influence the employment of learning disabilities nurses in non specialist settings.
To access the survey please click here for more details please see the attachment below.
Invitation letter LSBU Research