A practical workshop exploring universal, targeted, consultative, and specialist models of support across school based AHP services.
Choose the right level of support across universal, targeted, consultative, and specialist school services.
This workshop explores how to think more clearly about different models of support in school based practice across AHP roles. It looks at universal, targeted, consultative, and specialist input, and helps participants consider how to match level of support to need, participation goals, context, service capacity, and professional role. It is especially relevant where school teams need clearer shared understanding of what different levels of AHP input are for, and when more specialist support is needed.
Learning outcomes
By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:
- describe the purposes of universal, targeted, consultative, and specialist support within school based AHP practice
- discuss common tensions around direct work, consultation, role boundaries, and service expectations
- consider how level of input can be matched more clearly to need, participation goals, context, and available capacity
- reflect on how these decisions are currently made in their own service or setting
- leave with clearer language for explaining and justifying different levels of support
Participants will learn it through model based teaching, discuss it with colleagues from similar services, apply it to current caseload and service decisions, reflect on role boundaries and expectations, and take it back into practice through clearer planning.