Sarah Duffin

Biography

I am a Registered Learning Disability Nurse of over 25 years with extensive experience in a wide range of settings including, community, inpatient, low secure, acute and primary care. Alongside my clinical work I have experience within  Higher Education as a Senior Lecturer and Pathway Leader for Learning Disability Nursing. 

Qualifications and memberships

• PGCert Learning Disability and Autism Practice 
• PG Cert Teaching and Learning in Professional Practice
• PG Cert Positive Behaviour Support
• BSc (hons) Behaviour Intervention and Applied Behaviour Analysis. 
• Certificate of Achievement - UoC Future Leaders Development Programme
• Specialist advisor Morecambe Bay Touch Activated Phlebotomy Programme
• Specialist Advisor to a school for children who are unable to access mainstream education.
• Higher Education Fellow since October 2017 
• Member of Nursing and Midwifery Council

Academic and research interests

• Innovation in addressing Health Inequalities for people with learning disabilities.
• Leadership and Culture
• Positive Behaviour Support
• Public Health 
• Mental Capacity Act 

Recent external roles

• Patient Centric Sampling Conference 11 February 2025 -  Making blood sampling accessible to all - why it is so important - perspectives from the Learning Disability community, carers and health professionals 
• 7th Bi-Annual LD Nursing Symposium - Potential benefits of Touch Activated Phlebotomy results of a small scale study. 

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