As Christmas approaches, it’s a good time to begin getting dates in the diary for the 2015.
Heike Guilford – Director of The Coaching Nurse is staging a conference in Canterbury for local leaders and aspiring leaders, with some local and national reputed speakers.
Click on the flyer below for more details 
Have good Christmas and look out for some exciting opportunities withe the Community of Practice in 2015.
Canterbury Christ Church University is looking for more learning disability placements for their mental health nursing students, and interested parties are invited to contact Cathy Bernal, Professional Lead for Learning Disability, for further discussions.
Services providing support to adults with a learning disability in day or residential settings that would like to help our students to learn about their clients’ needs are welcome to get in touch. There is no need for your service to employ nurses, or even to have a particular interest in mental health – just a desire to help equip nurses of the future to work more effectively with people with learning disabilities. Students are allocated to these placements in the first year of their programme for eight weeks, and are customarily visited by a lecturer at least once during their placement.
Evidence suggests that our existing placements find supporting our students as rewarding and stimulating as students find this experience enjoyable, so please don’t hesitate to contact Cathy:
cathy.bernal@canterbury.ac.uk
01227 782793.
Thank you!
Cathy Bernal
Professional Lead for Learning Disability
Senior Lecturer in Learning Disability
Canterbury Christ Church University
After Winterbourne View NHS England said that they would review every person with a learning disability who currently lives in an NHS service.
NHS England are looking for two groups of people to help with this reviewing :-
1) Experts by Experience – People with learning disabilities, family carers and advocacy organisations and
2) Learning Disability Professionals and Clinicians such as Learning Disability Nurses, social workers, psychologists, Occupational Therapists amongst others.
This work will be paid, either directly to the person or as back fill to your current employer.
There are two documents that may help you make a decision about this. Click on the links below.
If you are interested in becoming an Expert Reviewer then please contact Kate Linsky kate@linsky.org.uk 07918 766929
If you are interested in becoming a Clinical Reviewer then please contact Alison Sargeant via email alison.sargeant1@nhs.net
For Further Information please contact Kevin Elliott via email kevin.elliott@nhs.net or phone 01138253501
Please see below for an exciting research opportunity! Contact Laura if interested.
Earlier on this year the Community of Practice shared the workshop events for the above project that is run by England Centre for Practice Development, Canterbury Christ Church University, East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust, South East Coast Ambulance Services and Commissioners of Primary Care funded by Health Education England – Kent Sussex and Surrey.
People with learning disabilities and professionals were represented in these meetings, and as the consultation period comes to an end, the project team would like to gather the views of those that were not able to attend.
A Survey has been set up which should take no longer than 5 minutes to complete and is open to everybody!