July 2014

Workforce Development for People with Intellectual Disabilities

Findings from the Kent, Surrey and Sussex Intellectual Disability

Workforce Scoping project

Who am I ?

My name is George Matuska

I am a Registered Nurse, Learning Disability or RNLD

What do I do ?

• I work in a hospital for:

– Adults

– Who have a learning disability

– Who need help with their mental health issues

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Last year I worked for:

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Who are Health Education Kent, Surrey and Sussex ?

• They ask employers: – how many staff do they need?– What do staff need to learn to

do their job

• They are a new group of people

• There are 13 other groups across England

What do Health Education Kent, Surrey and Sussex do?

• They pay schools and university's to train people to become nurses, doctors and other health care staff

• They make sure we have enough staff to look after us if we are poorly or need support

They wanted me to find out:Are there enough staff being trained

to meet the needs of people who have a learning disability

What we found

The Headlines

What we found out about staff:

• There are lots more nurses than we thought • Lots of the nurses did not work for the NHS• Nearly half of the nurses

could stop working over the next ten years if they wanted to

What we found out about people with learning disabilities:

Number of people who live in Kent, Surrey and Sussex

A very small amount of people with learning dis-abilities are known to services

Number of people with learning disabilities

Known numbersLikely true numbers

We know that there will be a small increase in the number of people in Kent, Surrey and Sussex over the next 5 years

The British Institute for Learning Disabilities say this will be the same for people with Learning disabilities

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We spoke to people who employed, worked with, or educated staff

We called them project stakeholders

Some of the things the stakeholders told us were:

They would like to be involved in education and workforce planning

Some people thought that the main provider of pre registration Learning Disability nurse education was a long way from where some people need it

KentSurrey

Sussex

Kingston University Greenwich University

It was not clear how providers of care could contact Health Education Kent, Surrey, and Sussex if they needed to

It was difficult to recruit staff on to pre registration nurse training courses

that come from Kent, Surrey and Sussex and keep them working there

when they finished

If you have any questions please ask them now

or come and ask me in the break

Communication

• Work number: 01227 833700

• Email: George.Matuska@huntercombe.com

• Twitter: @georgematuska

• Web blog: www.IDHEKSS.wordpress.com