Learn practical skills to enhance communication and learn of the difficulties encountered and how to improve access for patients with LD.
About this Event
We are pleased to invite you to this Learning Disabilities Training which has been developed with our colleagues at Notts Health Care Trust.
This event is for all health care professionals that have contact with patients: GPs, ANPs, AHPs, HCWs and reception.
Each session will be between 1.5 and 2 hours of CPD and all participants will receive a certificate of attendance.
Communication is at the heart of everything that we do in healthcare. It can take many forms and be challenging, particularly when we interact with patients with learning disabilities.
This interactive online training will guide you through the concepts of the Total Communication Approach, help to explore the difficulties we might encounter in consultations and offer practical approaches and solutions to enhance our consultations.
This training is is delivered in 2 parts. So, to get the most out of it we recommend attending both, however each has been designed to stand alone so feel free to attend either if you can!
What to expect?
Through case studies, discussion and shared experiences we will learn practical skills and approaches to consultations including sign language, modification of language and reasonable adjustments to improve our consultations.
Part 1 – Total Communication Approach
This interactive online training will guide you through the concepts of the Total Communciation Approach and help to explore the difficulties we might encounter in consultations but also the challenges that patients have with accessing healthcare and its impact on their overall care.
Wee will also learn about:
- Learning Disabilities and their impac ton patient care
- Reasonable adjustments and how to make them
- Getting the most out of health checks
- Communication approaches
- Signing Training
- Online Consultations
Part 2 - Developing Skills for Practical Communication
In part 2 we will revisit and develop some of the concepts we learnt about in part 1 focussing around case discussions and care studies. We will seek to use these real experiences to guide and enhance our learning and training.
We will also explore:
- LeDer and STOMP and the impact and implications these have on future care
- Quality improvement and service development
- Further signing training
- Source of help for your practice and to improve work-load
The event will be delivered via Zoom and as we hope to keep it as interactive as possible, numbers will be limited so sign up now to secure your place! Please attend using a laptop/computer device if able to get the most out of this session.
Once you have registered, we will contact you 48 hours before the event with instructions on how to join!