Making a Difference: The FoNS Learning Disability Fellowship
The FoNS Creating Caring Cultures Fellowship, for aspiring leaders and early career frontline registered learning disability nurses (RNLD) is now in its second year. It aims to support early career learning disability nurses to become the facilitative leaders of the future, while working to improve current services. Four cohorts were planned, starting January 2021 and finishing in June 2022. Supported by the Burdett Trust for Nursing and NHS England/Improvement (NHS E/I), fifty-six participants were recruited and workshops and active learning sessions were facilitated by programme lead Giselle Cope, and facilitator, Dr Theresa Shaw. The evaluation found that over 98% of participants completed the programme. This executive summary is drawn from the independent evaluation undertaken by the ImpACT Research Group at the University of East Anglia, researched and authored by Carolyn Jackson, Dr Lynn Furber and Daniel Marsden.