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Clinical Practitioner role with East Kent College

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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 

What Matters to Me Online Launch Event

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Following the Challenging Behaviour Foundation’s presentations at the 2024 Community Conference we are pleased to share this opportunity to hear their key findings from their What Matters to Me Project.

 

This initiative involved engaging with young people with severe or profound and multiple learning disabilities to influence policy and shape support and services.

The event will be an interactive session, sharing the project multi-media manifesto including a practical toolkit, giving attendees a chance to reflect on their own organisations practice, hearing from those involved in What Matters to Me and bringing together other good practice examples.

Places are limited, so book your free ticket here:

What Matters to Me Online Launch Tickets, Thu, Mar 27, 2025 at 9:30 AM | Eventbrite’

Reducing self injury through education in KSS *content warning*

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The community is pleased to be able to share some published work by regular contributors and Surrey-based Learning Disability Nurse Carla Withers. 

The paper tells the story of a man with a history of self-injury during masturbation, and how the Community team for people with learning disabilities undertook assessments and education sessions to support him to masturbate safely. 

If you want to read more the paper is published in the Nursing Times and can be found by clicking on the link below.

 Safe masturbation: educating a man with learning disabilities | Nursing Times 

Conference 2024 Film

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On 4th December 2024, the Community Conference was hosted at Canterbury Christ Church University with support from Kent Surrey Sussex Applied Research Collaborative.

Please see the film that the events team at Canterbury Christ Church created.

Learning Disability Liaison Nursing Competency Framework Webinar Recording

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To celebrate Learning Disability Nurses Day 2024, the Community hosted an online event with Jayne Leeson OBE on the development of the Competency Framework for Learning Disability Liaison Nurses. 

Due for publication in Spring 2025 the Framework will guide nurses and providers as to what a good quality learning disability liaison nursing service should be doing to have the maximum impact. 

A Uniform Approach : development of the competency framework for learning disability acute liaison nurses in England