Meet Celeste Pettifer, she is our Transition Coordinator. Celeste said ‘There are 2 bits of my job that I enjoy. Meeting families, helping and reassuring them about support in Adult Health Care. And I enjoy delivering training, whether that’s to families, or to staff members’.

Meet Shannon Ronan she is our Speech and Language Therapist, She said ‘the thing I love most about my job is being in a position where I get to change someone’s perspective about what it means to communicate, and watching people grow in confidence with their communication aids!

Meet Catherine Cropper she is one of our teams Speech and Language Therapist. Catherine said ‘I like supporting people to make the most of their life in their community’

Meet Elaine, our Speech and Language Technical Instructor. Elaine said ‘I enjoy using a total communication approach to help and support individuals , families and teams to communicate with each other and to support choice and decision making ‘

Meet Maxine, our teams admin, Maxine said ‘I love all the people in the team and I love chatting and helping the people I work with and adults with learning disabilities that call the clinic’

Meet James Collier he is a Registered Learning Disability Nurse. James is our teams LD Dementia nurse. James said ‘I support people with an LD and dementia. I am passionate about supporting our client group to lead a fulfilling and excellent quality of life like you and I’

Meet Mel, she is our teams physiotherapist. Mel said ‘I enjoy that every person I see is unique in their own way. I get satisfaction not just by helping them physically, but also mentally and the main aim is to maintain and/or improve their quality of life and their independence.

Meet Dr Bethina, he is our teams mental health doctor. Bethina said ‘My Favourite part of my job is being able to help people who are amongst the most vulnerable and it is so gratifying to see the satisfaction on our clients faces when we get things right for them’

Meet Naoimh Mc Gonagle – she is an occupational therapist, Naoimh said ‘I really enjoy being in the unique position of working across children's and adults services with people with neurodevelopmental conditions and ensuring that they succeed in all their daily occupations’

Meet Michelle Morrin, she is one of our Community Learning Disability Nurses. She said “I love my job because I am always learning and no day is boring”

Meet Tracy Carr, she is one of our Community Learning Disability Nurses. She said ‘our people are often treated unfairly, I like to make a difference in people life, so that they are happy, healthy and treated well’.

Meet Chris Frost she is our Nursing Health Care Assistant, she said ‘I love working with this amazing client group and a dedicated team’.

Meet Katie she is one of our community nurses she said ‘my favourite part of my job is seeing the difference in people’s quality of life when they’re well supported to increase their independence in managing their health’

Becoming a learning disability nurse - In their study of 20 learning disability nurses, Genders and Brown (2013) identified that there has been a steady decline in the number of learning disability nurses registering with the Nursing and... tmblr.co/ZdvNrUYY2M5Z0q…

People with learning disabilities are still FOUR TIMES more likely to die prematurely than the general population. Change is still needed #LeDeR

Learning disability nurses and students have rocked Twitter during lockdown! Once upon a time we were unheard off. But when we got together to protect and fight for people with learning disabilities, Twitter made it happen.

Diagnosed with growing pains at age 11, 5 years later I was an amputee & cancer survivor 🥴 all the more evidence that education and research is essential in the UK!

m.youtube.com/watch?v=YuregK… The Community Learning Disability Team wanted to get together to create a festive sing and sign to Wham’s ‘Last Christmas’. We hope you enjoy! We also wanted to use this time to tell you about the launch of Communication Access UK cauk.kappow.co.uk

Biggest frustration this week? A student nurse being grossly misinformed by a primary care trust head of nursing that they should change field because LD will pigeonhole them A 10m conversation with me resolved this. Today we retained a student. Speak to an RNLD 1st WeLDNurses 💙

Thank you angie Down Syndrome UK | Positive About Down Syndrome Ben Briggs for a humbling and frank discussion about improving the communication abilities of professional colleagues. @CNOEngland TeamCMidO we are on the cusp of a plan. Looking forwards to the next steps...