Our health system is responsive to improving the health inequalities faced by people with learning disabilities. We believe that it is everyone’s responsibility to ensure people with learning disabilities will be as healthy as they can be. We intend that people with learning disabilities will experience the best possible health care and have improved outcomes from their health services. Our Learning Disabilities Health Inequalities Challenge is the programme that will drive this aim.

Careers and education

The NHS has 350 different roles. To explore different careers and training opportunities please click here to find out more

There is a variety of placement opportunities available to students undertaking the Nursing (Learning Disability) BSc(Hons) course. This video covers some of them.

A student talks about her experience of doing the Nursing (Learning Disability) BSc(Hons) course.

What the Nursing (Learning Disability) BSc(Hons) at the University of Huddersfield course involves and what placement opportunities available.

Continuing your learning

Skills for Health provides information for professionals that is useful in their work, including the Capabilities Frameworks that describe the skills, knowledge, and behaviours which people bring to their work and are used to:

  • support development and planning of the workforce
  • inform the design and delivery of education and training programmes