This latest paper is a fantastic resource for everyone supporting people with learning disabilities across the South East. It champions five key occupational rights that map out what great practice looks like.

What Are These Rights About?

Simply put, these rights are designed to make sure we’re all making reasonable adjustments so that the people we support can easily take part in the activities and routines that truly matter to them.

These aren’t just theoretical ideas—they’re a practical tool! Their goal is to help people with learning disabilities live the fulfilled lives they deserve.

Who is this Guide for?

This resource is for all of us in the support network:

• Families and Carers

• Support Staff and Providers

• Professionals

• Commissioners

It gives us a shared understanding and a clear roadmap for how to best support meaningful engagement in daily life.

How Can We Use Them?

The rights help us in two key ways:

1. Spotting the Good Stuff: They provide a benchmark for what good occupational engagement looks like so we can easily recognise and celebrate when it’s happening!

2. Knowing When to Ask for Help: The framework also makes it clearer when and how to get specialist support to effectively enable and promote occupation in someone’s life.

Check the Royal College of Occupational Therapists website for more details.

East Kent Colleges has recently made contact about a newly created role for a nurse based in Canterbury.

This role will include extensive work with their students with complex physical health issues, and there will be significant links with the SEND provision, undertaking assessments, training and upskilling teaching staff, and working with young people and their families to promote health and wellbeing.  

Deadlines for applications is 12th June. 

Further details can be found at https://jobs.ekcgroup.ac.uk/vacancies/3858/clinical-practitioner.html