Learning Disability Emerging Plan - Turning Point

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Turning Point Learning Disability Emerging Plan 2013 - 2016The ethnicity profile of Turning Point’s LD employees is significantly more diverse than the ethnicity profile of theindividuals supported. The four largest population groups are:• n 69.2% White British• n 11.5% Black Other• n 6.1% Black African• n 4.2% Asian IndianTherefore the majority of our staff are women, White British, aged 36 to 55 years of age on full time, permanentemployment.This leads us to think there could be some areas to focus upon:• n Encouraging the recruitment of more male staff as positive role models for our male usersn • Encouraging more users from BME communities as we have staff who could become more positiverole models20
Turning Point Learning Disability Emerging Plan 2013 - 2016Our Way ForwardThe following has been broken down into three broad headings on which the Learning Disability Business Unitwill be focusing attention over the next three years:People: Turning Point is here to enable people with learning disability and staff to reach their full potential, byhaving ambition for all. Turning Points mission is to ‘turn people’s lives around’Business Results: Turning Point is here to provide high standards of quality, improve quality through servicetransformation and service improvement techniques and ensure growth of specific areas in the sectorInnovation: Turning Point is here to involve staff, people with learning disabilities and family carers to have amore active say in strategic development, improvement and new ways of working within the Learning DisabilityBusiness Unit.The content of the three areas has been derived from workshops and discussions by staff in services, people withlearning disabilities, family carers, managers and business partners. It has also been taken from national trends inthe learning disability field.OutcomesPeopleIt could be a challenging prospect for people with learning disabilities to reach their full potential on their own.We all need support and guidance. This must be seen as a team effort with family and friends’ support and staffworking together. The following was described during the consultation as things we are good at in the peoplesection in more than three occasions:• n Working with complex individuals ensuring lest restrictive lives• n Working with families• n Being person centred• n Being adaptable• n Offering choiceThe outcomes for the people section during the next three years are:• n To have staff that are skilled communicators and involve users and carers in everything we do• n To release potential in every person we work with• n For all staff to have a clear vision of the future and understand how we are going to get there• n To strive to be extraordinary in all we do• n To have staff that are respected as market leaders in learning disabilities• n To actively seek feedback from families and people with learning disabilities and prove we act on it21
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