The Oliver McGowan Mandatory Training on Learning Disability and Autism
The Oliver McGowan Mandatory Training on Learning Disability and Autism is named after Oliver McGowan, whose death shone a light on the need for health and social care staff to have better training. The Health and Care Act 2022 introduced a statutory requirement that regulated service providers must ensure their staff receive learning disability and autism training appropriate to their role so they have the right skills and knowledge to provide safe, compassionate, and informed care to autistic people and people with a learning disability. The Oliver McGowan Mandatory Training is the standardised training that was developed for this purpose and is the government’s preferred and recommended training. If you wish to know more about the background of this campaign, please click here to read it or here to see a video from Paula McGowan talking about it.
This training will run alongside our own Autism, Learning Disability & Total Inclusive Communication Training.
All Leading Lives Staff must complete the Tier (1) eLearning, which includes access to the handbook and an online interactive session with a person with lived experience.
All staff members who provide support and care for our autistic customers &/or customers with a learning disability will also undertake the Tier (2) One Day in person session delivered by one of our in house Trainers.
Please watch the video below before your training. Please be aware that it contains the real-life story of the death of a young autistic person with a learning disability, which some viewers may find upsetting
https://youtu.be/ouhKSOGm49g?si=nkgB-Vtu61vyveMm
You can read more about Oliver’s Story here.
Tier (1) eLearning
The content of the eLearning session is mapped to the Tier 1 learning outcomes of the Core Capabilities Framework for Supporting Autistic People and the Core Capabilities Framework for Supporting People with a Learning Disability. It should take you one hour and 30 minutes to complete.
The eLearning session within this course is co-created and delivered with experts by experience. It covers an understanding of learning disability, understanding autism, communication and reasonable adjustments. In order to receive a certificate for this eLearning, we ask that you also complete both the pre- and post-eLearning surveys. Each survey should take between 5–10 minutes to complete.
This eLearning session covers:
- Section 1 – Introduction
- Section 2 – Understanding learning disability
- Section 3 – Understanding autism
- Section 4 – Communication
- Section 5 – Reasonable adjustments
- Section 6 – Summary
You will need to create an account with e-Learning for Healthcare to undertake the Tier (1) eLearning and the pre- and post-eLearning surveys:
Step 1: Click the link for the Tier (1) eLearning – e-Learning for Healthcare Authentication (learninghub.nhs.uk)
Step 2: Click the Register for an account link and type in your e-mail address
Step 3: Click ‘I work in social care’
Step 4: Question – Tell us which care setting you work in? Answer – Leading Lives
Question – What is your care setting registration code? Answer – ND-AEGL
Step 5: Answer all questions in the drop down including your start date & place of work
Step 6: You will then receive an email notifying you of your username and temporary password which you can then change
Step 7: Login using your Username & Password in the search bar type ‘Oliver McGowan’
Step 8: Complete the Pre eLearning, the eLearning & the post eLearning
Step 9: Send your certificate to @Learning & Development as L&D need to show the trainer your Tier (1) Certificate of completion.
Tier (1) Handbook (see attached)
This handbook has been co-produced and designed to accompany the eLearning of the Oliver McGowan Mandatory Training on Learning Disability and Autism. The team that co-produced this handbook comprised people with a range of lived experiences and these include: learning disability, autism and family, parent and sibling carers. This is in addition to a wide range of professionals working in learning disability and autism services and a range of stakeholders across health, voluntary and social care settings. The aim of this handbook is to provide a summary of the content covered in the eLearning and expand beyond this with some helpful links to resources that may help you in supporting our customers. You can visit the websites and reading material provided by clicking on the in-text links to go directly to the resource and there is a list of the full links in the appendices
Tier (2) Face to Face Training
The aim of the session is the enhance your understanding of learning disabilities, best practice in the and social care setting and understand how this is supported by current legislation. This training that will be delivered to you by one of our in house Leading Lives Oliver McGowan Trainers will enable you to
- Acknowledge and understand unconscious biases to avoid diagnostic overshadowing
- Acknowledge and understand the learnings from the Learning from Lives and Deaths reviews
- Stop the overmedication of people with a learning disability
- Have an increased understanding of the STOMP & STAMP campaigns
- Understand what reasonable adjustments are and how to make them
- Understand when to use the Mental Capacity Act
- Understand when to use and how to apply do not attempt cardiovascular resuscitation
- Improve communication with a person with a learning disability and their family
- Recognise the important role hospital passports and annual health checks play in the care and support of people with a learning disability.
You will be booked onto this training by your Service Manager and the Learning & Development Department, before you attend your Tier (2) Face to Face session you MUST have completed the Tier (1) eLearning module.
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