Team leader Rachel, talks about the journey Anna and her staff team have been on over the last six months; a challenging period with lots of change.

When you know someone well, you're usually very aware of changes in their personality or routines, especially if they have always done things a certain way. This was true of a man with learning disabilities who I've supported for a long time.

This week is Mental Health Awareness Week. Did you know, between 2016 – 2017 there were 12.5 million working days lost across all UK workplaces due to mental health related illness?

Well, it's a magic number when you work in learning and development! It's a model that suggests the ratio of learning that takes place and where it takes place. Wouldn't you know it, the 70% is for learning that takes place 'on the job'. If that's the case, how do we know that learning is taking place on the job?

'Involvement at Brandon – how we work and what you can expect' is a new plan to ensure that the people we support and their families know how we work and what they can expect from us.

Earlier this year I had a really interesting opportunity to work alongside one of Brandon’s graduate trainees in co-producing some guidance that we hope will prove useful to people we support, their families, friends, and Brandon frontline staff.