Developing new staff by practice leadership to support autistic adults living in individual occupancy, community housing / Roy DEVEAU in Good Autism Practice - GAP, 24-2 (October 2023)

Public ISBD [article]  inGood Autism Practice - GAP > 24-2 (October 2023) . - p.55-62 Titre : Developing new staff by practice leadership to support autistic adults living in individual occupancy, community housing Type de document : Texte imprimé et/ou numérique Auteurs : Roy DEVEAU, Auteur ; Adam HOLLAND, Auteur ; Debbie AUSTIN, Auteur Année de publication : 2023 Article en page(s) : p.55-62 Langues : Anglais (eng) Index. décimale : PER Périodiques Résumé : Roy Deveau is an Honorary Research Fellow at the Tizard Centre, University of Kent, whose interests include leadership and management and the use of restrictive practices within services for adults with intellectual disabilities. Adam Holland has an autistic brother and graduated from the University of Kent with a postgraduate degree in Autism studies in 2018. He now works as a SEND coordinator at The Sheffield College. Debbie Austin has a 14-year-old autistic daughter with a severe learning difficulty and works with the Challenging Behaviour Foundation. Since the Transforming Care report, there has been an increase in the provision of single occupancy housing for autistic adults. This brings challenges in terms of practice leadership (i.e.the professional development and supervision of staff). In this paper, the authors report on the findings from interviews with 15 staff working in five different single occupancy houses. The staff were asked about sources of support they received and valued from their managers, other staff, family members and service-users. As managers often have to oversee several services, the most frequent support is found from other staff. Some staff interviewed also greatly valued support from family members and drew on ideas they gleaned from talking to and/or observing the service user. The authors asked Debbie Austin to comment on the paper (see Part Two). She makes a clear case for working together with staff in gaining knowledge about the service-user and what is likely to lead to good outcomes. At present it is likely that how and when staff work together with families and service-users (i.e.experts by experience) more often depends on individual staff rather than this being formalised by policy-makers or service-providers. Permalink : https://www.cra-rhone-alpes.org/cid/opac_css/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=540 [article] Developing new staff by practice leadership to support autistic adults living in individual occupancy, community housing [Texte imprimé et/ou numérique] / Roy DEVEAU, Auteur ; Adam HOLLAND, Auteur ; Debbie AUSTIN, Auteur . - 2023 . - p.55-62. Langues : Anglais (eng) in Good Autism Practice - GAP > 24-2 (October 2023) . - p.55-62 Index. décimale : PER Périodiques Résumé : Roy Deveau is an Honorary Research Fellow at the Tizard Centre, University of Kent, whose interests include leadership and management and the use of restrictive practices within services for adults with intellectual disabilities. Adam Holland has an autistic brother and graduated from the University of Kent with a postgraduate degree in Autism studies in 2018. He now works as a SEND coordinator at The Sheffield College. Debbie Austin has a 14-year-old autistic daughter with a severe learning difficulty and works with the Challenging Behaviour Foundation. Since the Transforming Care report, there has been an increase in the provision of single occupancy housing for autistic adults. This brings challenges in terms of practice leadership (i.e.the professional development and supervision of staff). In this paper, the authors report on the findings from interviews with 15 staff working in five different single occupancy houses. The staff were asked about sources of support they received and valued from their managers, other staff, family members and service-users. As managers often have to oversee several services, the most frequent support is found from other staff. Some staff interviewed also greatly valued support from family members and drew on ideas they gleaned from talking to and/or observing the service user. The authors asked Debbie Austin to comment on the paper (see Part Two). She makes a clear case for working together with staff in gaining knowledge about the service-user and what is likely to lead to good outcomes. At present it is likely that how and when staff work together with families and service-users (i.e.experts by experience) more often depends on individual staff rather than this being formalised by policy-makers or service-providers. Permalink : https://www.cra-rhone-alpes.org/cid/opac_css/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=540

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