Leadership
Teamwork Makes the Dream Work: Effective Communication and Removing Barriers to Create Successful Teams within ALN / PMLD
Build a PMLD team where everyone knows their role, uses their strengths and speaks up early when something isn't working.
- 28 minutes
- Recorded webinar
- 0.5 CPD hours
- Certificate
Members
14 days free, then £70 a year or £7 a month.
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What you'll learn
- Recognise each team member's strengths and build roles around them
- Keep communication clear and consistent across a multidisciplinary team
- Raise and resolve problems openly before they affect learners
- Use supervision, celebration and social time to protect staff morale
- Plan how therapists and class staff share information day to day
About this course
A class team for learners with PMLD might include teachers, TAs, a nurse, physios and speech and language therapists, all working with the same young people. When communication slips or morale drops, it's the learners who feel it first.
This webinar draws on a special school team in South Wales that hasn't lost a member of staff since 2020. You'll see how they spot and use each person's strengths, from the TA who used to be a hairdresser to the colleague who has been at the school since the 1980s. There's practical advice on clear roles, on keeping communication consistent when therapists and class staff work side by side, and on making time for a laugh together.
If you lead a team, there are ideas on vision and morale too, including a half-termly team session with a counsellor to talk through what's been hard.
- For early career teachers, middle leaders and 4 other roles. All phases.
Recording
Open in order
- 4 min
Introduction
- 4 min
Finding your Tribe
- 3 min
Leading by Example
- 7 min
Communication
- 1 min
Fun!
- 3 min
Engaging and Supporting the Senses
- 4 min
Five Key Elements of Wellbeing
- 2 min
Agencies
- 4 min
Top Tips for Successful Teams
- 1 min
Conclusion