Zoe Lightbody Community Learning Disability Charge Nurse NHS Ayrshire & Arran Zoe describes herself as lucky to have spent many of her student placements working in the community and just one year after graduating in 2016, she found herself in The Community Learning Disability Team in South Ayrshire before securing a permanent Charge Nurse post…
Learning Disability Nurse
Kelly Frame
Kelly Frame Community Learning Disability Nurse NHS Lanarkshire I like that working in the community you get to support people throughout their journey. In a hospital setting, you might only see and treat the immediate health concern but in community nursing, you are involved in the ongoing journey with a person. Seeing someone in their…
Fiona Mason
Fiona Mason Learning Disability Nurse Scottish Borders I am a senior charge nurse within the Scottish Borders Learning Disability Service – a multidisciplinary team working across health and social care, made up of around 80 or 90 people working together in the community. My base is in Earlston in Berwickshire and the service covers a large, mainly rural, geographical area with the…
Julie Fitzpatrick
Julie Fitzpatrick Learning Disability Nurse Renfrew I have spent my whole career dedicating myself to improving the lives of adults with a learning disability and the work is diverse and challenging. I am Professional Nurse Lead for learning disability services providing support and direction to a small workforce spread across NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde. I’m based in Renfrew, but my role is health-board wide. I work across…
Learning Disability
Currently, there are no Queen’s Nurses operating in the area of Learning Disability Nursing. However, below are a number of profiles of Learning Disability Nurses in order to offer examples of different roles under Learning Disability. These were collected by the Scottish Learning Disability Nurses Network, to whom we are grateful. “Approximately one and a…
Enabling Recovery
This project offers a safe environment for adults with learning disabilities and mental health conditions can be enabled to better understand, manage and maintain their own wellbeing. The aim will be for each individual to identify what they are like when they are well, and when they are unwell, promoting an individual definition of recovery.
Safer Communities
This project sought to pilot two new initiatives:
Improve assessment and signposting for people who maybe more vulnerable to risk of domestic fires
With a local housing provider and tenants, pilot a Good Neighbour, Good Neighbourhood initiative to support people to feel safer in their community.
