Patience is a learning disability nurse, I have worked across 3 different boroughs in Greater Manchester within multi-professional community learning disability teams. My learning disability nursing career centred on the reduction of health inequalities and improving the health outcomes of people with learning disabilities. I led a project within Pennine Care NHS Trust, developing an end of life care pathway for people with learning disabilities. The project included the training of multi-professionals within learning disability services and the training of social care staff in supporting people with learning disabilities to die within their supported living homes rather than be moved at the end of their lives.
I have also previously worked as a Behaviour Specialist Nurse conducting specialist behaviour assessments and intervention programmes for people who display complex, distressed behaviours. My work centred on neurodivergent individuals and also people who had contact with the criminal justice system.