o w stuart
London
The Calibre programme has been run at North East London Foundation Trust every
year since 2015. It was the first NHS Foundation Trust to host Calibre and over
50 members of disabled staff have completed the programme. These include
doctors, nurses, specialist clinicians and professional staff as well. Not only
has Calibre been beneficial to those member of staff, it has also benefited
their managers, senior management and also the way in which disability is now
understood at NELFT. Calibre is now integral part of the training offer to
disabled staff at North East London Foundation Trust. I am a disabled person
from a black and minority ethnic background, and an E&D consultant with fifteen
years of experience as a trainer and specialist adviser. I spent twelve years as
an academic at the Universities of Oxford, York and Surrey and have written
seminal works on the experience of BME disabled people and social care. As a
trainer, I have run disability and E&D training courses for Public Sector
organisations such as the NHS, the Department of Health and Social Care,
numerous Local Authorities, Universities and voluntary sector organisations.
Since 2013, I have also run the Calibre Leadership Programmes for disabled staff
at a number of Universities and NHS Trusts. If NHS foundation trusts like NELFT
want to meet the needs of their disabled staff and see the improvements in their
experience through the WDES. Then Calibre would be a key vehicle with which to
meet their goals. See the NELFT virtual programme here
