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Supporting Neurodiversity in the NHS Healthcare Training Course
This course is particularly beneficial for Doctors, Clinical Supervisors and Educational Supervisors who are committed to creating an inclusive workplace. By understanding neurodiverse individuals, supervisors can ensure their team members, students and medical graduates feel supported to excel and focus on improving patient care.
This comprehensive course is designed to help Doctors, Clinical Supervisors and Educational Supervisors to understand and support neurodiverse team members. Participants will understand how to support neurodivergent students, graduates and team members; understand the benefits these people bring to the workplace; supporting them pre/post disclosure, including ensuring they do not become isolated, and practical strategies for overcoming common barriers associated with neurodiversity in the workplace. Through engaging activities and real-world scenarios, participants will be able to support their neurodiverse workforce, ensuring all employees can thrive and contribute to improving patient care.
- CPD Points: 6
- Course category: Healthcare
- Course duration: 1 day
- Course location: Virtual or classroom-based
- Recognise the importance of supporting neurodiverse team members to improve patient care.
- Identify the benefits a neurodiverse workforce brings to an organisation and how to support those who decide to disclose this.
- Understand the practical steps to supporting neurodiverse students and team members.
- Develop skills to support and maximise the contributions of neurodiverse employees.
- Navigating conversations and communication around neurodiversity to prevent an isolated environment.
- Introduction to Neurodiversity: Definitions and myths.
- Inclusive communication strategies as a manager or supervisor, to ensure your team are supported.
- Techniques for identifying and removing workplace barriers for neurodiverse employees.
- Supporting neurodiverse team members pre and post-disclosure of their neurodiversity and practical steps to ensure support is appropriate for the individual student.
- How to manage reasonable adjustments and accommodations requests, as well as adopting communication methods that are preferred for individuals.
- How to navigate these challenging conversations.
- Understand ways to prevent isolation among neurodiverse team members.
- Best practices for supporting neurodivergent employees –ditching the “one-size-fits-all” approach. Create a collaborative work environment where strengths are shared.
- Action Plan Development for Enhancing Workplace Inclusivity and creating a culture of inclusivity.
