Training · Residential Care
Learning Disabilities Pathway
LD, complex needs and health-led care — sensory, communication and clinical adjustments. Our Learning Disabilities pathway prepares teams to support children and young people with learning disabilities, complex health needs and associated conditions, combining person-centred practice with the clinical awareness and safe-handling knowledge these settings require.
Level 1 Practitioner
Foundation — delivered as induction week
- Safeguarding
- Care Planning
- ADHD
- Child Exploitation
- Recording & Reporting
- Fire Safety
- Autism
- Professional Boundaries
- Medication
- Learning Disabilities
- Complaints & Allegations
- Missing from Care
- Equality, Diversity & Inclusion
Level 2 Practitioner — Learning Disabilities
Delivered over the first six months
- Acquired Brain Injury
- Anaphylaxis & Emergency Medication
- Bowel Care
- Diabetes
- Dysphagia Awareness
- Harmful Sexualised Behaviours
- Keyworker & Care Planning
- Liberty Protection Safeguards (DoLS & MCA)
- Mental Capacity Act inc. DoLS (Advanced)
- Neurodiversity & ADHD
- Pathological Demand Avoidance
- Person Centred Care
- Positive Behaviour Support
- Positive Risk Taking
- Principles of Risk Assessment
- Responding to Biting
- Safe Handling of Medication
- Therapeutic Parenting
- Understanding Behaviours that Challenge (LD)
- Understanding Seizures
Level 3 Practitioner — Learning Disabilities
Post-six months / specialist
- ACEs & Trauma
- Eating Disorders
- EHCP, IEPs & PEP
- Epilepsy & Buccal Midazolam
- Learning Disabilities
- Ligatures & Self-Harm
- Non-Verbal Communication
- Personal Care
- PICA
- Prader-Willi Syndrome
- Radicalisation
- Speech, Language & Communication
- Tourette's Syndrome
- Life Story Work
Management & Specialist
Senior practitioner & accredited
- Safer Recruitment
- Leadership & Management
- Supervision & Appraisal
- Safeguarding for Designated Officers (Advanced)
- Attachment (Advanced Level)
- Oliver McGowan (Learning Disability & Autism)
- KIT Physical Intervention (annual refresher)
- First Aid at Work (3-yearly refresher)
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