Supporting people with neurological conditions: helping them to be heard and protecting their rights
Does your organisation provide one-to-one support to people who have a neurological condition?
Are you a case manager, personal injury solicitor, support worker, service navigator, legal adviser, social worker, community worker or work in any helping, supportive role?
Neurological conditions are health disorders involving the brain and nervous system and may be caused by physical injury or result from biochemical causes. A neurological condition may cause paralysis of any part of the body. They include Multiple Sclerosis, Motor Neurone Disease, Parkinson’s Disease, Stroke, Dementia, Cerebral Palsy, Epilepsy, Huntington’s Disease and acquired brain injuries.
This tailored training course will give you an increased understanding of neurological conditions and will help you develop skills and knowledge to be able to provide holistic, person-centred support to people with neurological conditions to get their voices heard and their rights upheld.
Learning outcomes
The course will give you an increased:
- Knowledge of the nervous system
- Ability to recognise a range of neurological conditions
- Understanding of the needs of people with neurological conditions
- Insight into how neurological conditions impact on someone (e.g. cognition, mood, pain, fatigue and fluctuating emotions)
- Understanding of how the physical, cognitive and emotional aspects of neurological conditions impact on someone’s behaviour and daily living (e.g. ability to perform tasks, process information, engage with services)
- Understanding of how neurological conditions impact on someone’s ability to communicate, make informed choices and express their needs, goals and priorities.
- Awareness of the impact of living with a neurological condition (e.g. facing discrimination, isolation)
Core modules
- The medical model and the social model of disability
- The nervous system and what goes wrong
- Symptoms
- Communication
- Neurological condition-specific information
- Complementary therapies
- Rehabilitation and access to support
- Legal rights and how to use legislation
The course includes a training pack, a personalised action plan to help you put your learning into action and a certificate of completion.
Who for:
This course is for people who provide support to people with neurological conditions either in an advocacy setting or more broadly and want to develop/improve their practice and skills to benefit you in your role and to get better outcomes for the people you support.
Delivery
The course duration is 12 hours but delivery is fully flexible and can be delivered either in-person or online and either in-house or in our fully accessible premises.
Quality:
We are a multi-award-winning advocacy service in providing high-quality support to people to have their voices heard and rights upheld with nearly 30 years’ specialist experience expertise in supporting people with neurological conditions.
This training course was developed by Connected Voice Advocacy in partnership with Northern Neurological Alliance. We have provided it to 60 people who have used it to inform their practice in providing Independent Advocacy to 175 people with neurological conditions via our specialist Neurological Advocacy Service.
This course complements our Social Justice Champions Training
“Fabulous training, really enjoyed it and the team training us were spot on”
“Training packs were very comprehensive”
Contact Claire Taylor to discuss your bespoke training needs.
