What is a Community of Practice?
A Community of Practice (CoP) is a group of people who share a concern or a passion for something they do and learn how to do it better together by sharing learning and good practice.
The Practice Development Unit (PDU) currently facilitates four Communities of Practice:
- Co-Production
This CoP provides a forum for professionals and volunteers with a passion for, and commitment to, collaborating effectively with the people they support and empowering them to get the most out of their involvement.
- Employability and Skills
This CoP provides a forum for professionals and volunteers with a passion for, and commitment to, empowering people who experience multiple disadvantage through employment and skills led recovery and resettlement.
- Working Residents
This CoP provides a forum for professionals, volunteers and people with lived experience to more fully understand the barriers to employment experienced by both staff and service users within supported accommodation settings.
- Working with Neurodivergent Adults
This CoP aims to provide a forum for people who have a commitment to working more effectively to meet the needs of their neurodivergent clients.
Other networks supported by the PDU
- Nottingham City Homeless Health Network
This is a collaborative cross sector forum that meets every two months to ensure systems across the city are responsive to the support needs of those suffering health inequalities, with a focus on people experiencing homelessness and/or Severe Multiple Disadvantage (SMD).