Monthly L&D Update

A belated happy Easter to you all! There aren’t a huge number of updates for you this month as I enjoyed a week off and then spent a couple of days in Durham with our lovely new Smoke Free County Durham team, welcome everyone!

What have we been working on this month?

This month we’ve started planning the content for our upcoming leadership development days. All leaders will be invited to an in-person training day, with one session taking pace in Nottingham for our “north” leaders in May and another in London for our “south” leaders. Due to recent tube strikes, our initial date for the south had to be postponed, however we’re hopefully for a new date in June to be confirmed very soon.

As some of you will know, we previously ran Safeguarding Adults level 3 workshops. Due to staff changes these workshops were paused, however I am pleased to say they are back up and running. The level 3 safeguarding adults’ course is for those that may see children in clinic, so applies predominantly to our Child Weight Management teams and Stop Smoking Advisors. Our safeguarding champions also complete this training. I’ve been reaching out to leads with upcoming workshop dates; our next available workshop is taking place on 28th April. The booking link is below. Once this course is full, additional dates will be released. If you think this workshop applies to you and you are available on the 28th April, please speak with your line manager.

Yesterday, I attended a workshop on neurodiversity in the workplace, which prompted me to reflect on the content we currently offer in our learning disability, learning difficulties and neurodiversity awareness module. On reviewing the module, I realised there are a few gaps where additional content could add real value which I am going to work on.

One aspect of the workshop that really brought the topic to life was hearing real world experiences through case study videos. Listening to people share how their condition affects them, and how greater understanding and small adjustments can make a meaningful difference, really highlighted how we can make life more accessible and equitable. To help strengthen this module, I would love to include some case studies from TT colleagues who have a learning difficulty, a disability, or who are neurodivergent, to better understand how this may affect you—particularly in your day to day work at TT. Case studies would be written as standard, unless you are happy for a short video recording to be used. All written contributions would be anonymous, unless you are comfortable having your name included.

How can you help?

If you are interested in taking part in our case-studies, then please contact me on [email protected]