title: Health facilitation in learning disability: a new specialist role.
abstract: This article attempts to examine the important role of the health facilitator in learning disability and recommends that the specialist community learning disability nurse already has the appropriate skills and knowledge to carry out competently the role across the acute, primary and secondary care sectors. A model for community specialist learning disability practice already exists (Bollard and Jukes, 1999) but for health facilitation to have an impact a model of leadership and charge is recommended to be aligned to a model for practice. A CALECT model (a mnemonic which represents essential core roles and skills of a health facilitator) is proposed as a complementary vehicle to make facilitation work.
authors.affiliation: Specialist Community Learning Disability Nursing, Faculty of Health and Community Care, School of Primary Health Care, University of Central England, Birmingham.
authors.forename: Mark
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Jukes
mesh_terms: D006297:Health Services Accessibility; D006801:Humans; D007857:Leadership; D007859:Learning Disabilities / Q000451:nursing*; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D024802:Nurse's Role; D013041:Specialties, Nursing; D006113:United Kingdom