The NHS is currently funding my studies and I am working towards a postgraduate diploma in applied behavioural analysis. It will take me to the next step so I can help with assessing people with learning disabilities and empowering them to change behaviours.
As for my future career, I am very happy where I am but looking forward to using what I have learnt in my diploma in practice. It will make a massive difference to the service users I work with and, I hope, to their quality of life.
Learning disability nursing is a great career. I really love my job. In fact, my top tip is if you don’t love it, you shouldn’t do it. That is why it is really important to do some volunteering or get some work experience in a learning disability service before making the decision that it is the career for you.
To be a learning disability nurse, I think you need three main qualities. You need to be:
- caring
- able to communicate with people with learning disabilities
- compassionate