Oliver McGowan Tier 1 Training

It is now in law that all NHS providers and CQC-regulated social care employers, must ensure staff receive training that covers the Core Capabilities Frameworks for Learning Disability and Autism. The Oliver McGowan Mandatory Training (OMMT) in learning disability and autism is the government’s preferred model for meeting this requirement.

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A key aspect of OMMT is that it is co-designed and co-delivered by experts with lived experience of learning disability and autism, who share their experiences and expertise.

The training is named for Oliver McGowan, a young autistic man with a learning disability, who died a potentially avoidable death. Oliver’s story is a starting point: evidence shows that people with a learning disability and autistic people experience on average, significantly poorer healthcare and health outcomes, often in potentially preventable ways.

All staff must complete the E-Learning before then accessing either Tier 1 or Tier 2 training.

Tier 1 training

Tier 1 Oliver McGowan mandatory training is for staff who may not have direct contact with patients or customers, but need to have a general awareness of these areas and the adjustments people are legally entitled to.

It is a one-hour webinar and covers:

Introductions by an Expert with Lived Experience of Learning Disability and an Autistic Expert with Lived Experience. Finding out about their lives and experiences in health and social care.

Some examples of common reasonable adjustments for health and social care.

The importance of involving families and carers.

A myth-busting quiz tackling assumptions people may have.

SYICB have commissioned a local partner, Speakup Self Advocacy, to support the delivery of the training in South Yorkshire. https://www.speakup.org.uk/

Speakup are specialists with decades of experience in supporting and employing people with Learning Disabilities and Autistic people.

SYICB have provided training and ongoing support for Speakup. Facilitating trainers are existing Speakup staff and ICB staff, as well as some from local authorities who are training their own colleagues.

All training is co-delivered by a facilitator, and two experts with lived experience of Learning Disability and Autism. Currently, all of the experts with lived experience are employed via Speakup.

NHS England’s aim is to train 1/3 of workforce per year, with a refresh every 3 years for each colleague.

From May 2024, NHS England expect to transition to a ‘business as usual’ approach, and so it will be important for employers to consider how they will move to this mode of delivery. Ahead of this, some organisations have identified colleagues with the appropriate experience and qualifications to be trained to work as facilitating trainers.

We are training staff from NHS Trusts, CQC-regulated Local Authority providers. We also have some capacity to train staff from private providers who supply staff to the NHS, where having this training will benefit their work in the NHS.

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LeDeR

The LeDeR programme, funded by NHS England and NHS Improvement, was established in 2017 to improve healthcare for people with a learning disability and autistic people. LeDeR aims to:

Improve care for people with a learning disability and autistic people.
Reduce health inequalities for people with a learning disability and autistic people.
Prevent people with a learning disability and autistic people from early deaths.

LeDeR summarises the lives and deaths of people with a learning disability and autistic people who died in England in annual reports.

https://www.kcl.ac.uk/research/leder

Learning from lives and deaths – People with a learning disability and autistic people (LeDeR) :: South Yorkshire I.C.B

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