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Trainer Profile
Beryl Sanderson
Beryl’s Key Training Provision Roles:
. Gender Diversity and Sexuality. This training is for Managers of business or sports organisations.
. Gender Diversity and Sexuality This training is for staff members or sports team members.
. Neurodevelopmental Conditions in the Workplace. This training is for managers or directors.
. Neurodevelopmental Conditions in the Workplace. This training is for staff teams
. Neurodevelopmental Conditions in Children Involved in/entering sports clubs. This training is for Sport Coaches.
. Inclusion and ability focus in respect of people with learning disabilities. This training is for staff teams and/or managers.
Beryl Sanderson is a Highly Specialist Family and Systemic Psychotherapist, Clinical Nurse Specialist and an Independent Nurse Prescriber.
She began her career as a registered nurse and worked with children and young people with learning disabilities who had been previously placed into institutions from birth. Due to the closure of these large institutions, Beryl was part of a nursing team in a small group home for children who had learning and physical disabilities and later worked with autistic adults.
Later Beryl worked with adults and children who had what was termed as ‘challenging behaviour’ and undertook behavioural assessments to assess the reasons for the label of challenging behaviour and worked with families and staff teams to develop resolutions by focussing on what the person actually needed and how they wanted to live their life.
After completing an MSc in Learning Disability Studies, Beryl worked as a Children’s Community Learning Disability nurse, supporting families who had a child with a learning disability or a physical disability alongside autism,
She supported families with issues around activities of daily living such as continence, sleep, eating and mealtimes, leisure, education and also behaviour that could be difficult for others to manage. Beryl worked with families and schools and also delivered sex education and puberty training to support staff and teenagers with learning disabilities.
Beryl then spent 11 years with the Youth Offending Service as a Clinical Nurse Specialist working with young people who were on community orders providing treatment and advice in respect of their mental, physical and sexual health. Here she also worked with teenagers with autism and ADHD, as well as learning disabilities, and was part of the referrals process to enable young people to access CAMHS (Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service) and also other child services for their assessments.
Beryl delivered in-house training directed at helping teenagers to manage anger and mental and physical health and also provided training on neurodevelopmental conditions.
Beryl then joined CAMHS and worked in a community team. In this role, she provided Family Therapy and clinical work with young people and was a member of the neurodevelopmental assessment team, which assessed children and young people for ASC and ADHD. She was also part of the prescribing team for ADHD, ASC and low mood/depression and anxiety.
In the role of Highly Specialist Family and Systemic Psychotherapist, Beryl offers therapeutic assessment to young people and their families and regularly works with young people with neurodevelopmental conditions and learning disabilities. Beryl is highly experienced in working with young people who are questioning their sexuality or gender identities and is hugely experienced in providing training in this, as well as many areas.