What do the Learning Disabilities team do?

We work with people across Gloucestershire and are based at Shire Hall in Gloucester. We are a supportive, countywide team and incorporate the following services:

• Learning Disabilities Operations Team
• Transition Team

We are made up of both qualified and unqualified workers and have our own, large, open-plan office and we all share this space. Learning Disabilities operate a ‘hub’ model, which means that workers are grouped together with their manager in their own areas of the office. This means that peer support is always available – in fact it is a key part of our operating model. There are peer group discussions at least once per week and formal supervisions take place every four weeks.

We make use of the three-conversation model across the team and workers now have more autonomy and accountability – they now have the ability to agree budgets within their hubs.

This is a far more person-centred way of working and the team is now able to spend time really getting to know the people we work with and connect them to meaningful opportunities.

"I’m a Social Care Practitioner with the Learning Disability Team in Gloucester. I’ve been in this role now for almost three years. If you’ve got maybe more life experience, I think in a way it can be quite a positive thing because although you may not have experienced what that person is you’re supporting, you can probably relate to it because you’ve worked with someone that has.

I believe that there’s so many opportunities within the Adult Social Care sector, not necessarily within disabilities, but in other areas as well. I think it just gives you the opportunity to really sort of make a difference in somebody’s life." - Social Care Practitioner

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