Designed for:
All those in social care settings working with people on the Autistic Spectrum
Course aim and objectives:
This one day course will introduce participants to:
· Language and terminology in relation to autism
· A short history of our understanding of autism
· Causes of Autism? – Myths and misunderstanding, genetics, brain difference, new developments
· An ‘autistic spectrum’ – ranges of functioning and impairment
· Asperger’s Syndrome – characteristics, diagnostic criteria and social difficulties
· Characteristics of Autism
· Exploring differences in social interaction/communication
· Exploring imagination and flexible thinking
· Helpful responses - strategies / behaviour support planning / alternative communication
· Further information / reading
Designed for:
Staff in social care settings who already have some understanding of Autism and the Autism Spectrum, and have attended an Autism Awareness course
Course aim and objectives:
This course will cover related topics, including:
· Autism and behaviour
· Sensory difference
· Obsessions and compulsions
· Autism and anxiety
· Autism and communication
Designed for: Any social care staff or carers who want to have a better understanding of the sensory understanding of the sensory processing difficulties experienced by autistic people.
Course aims and objectives: The Autism Reality Experience is an innovative and inspirational training session designed to give participants a virtual experience of living with autism. This is an immersive, hands on experience that gives participants a greater insight into autism spectrum conditions and helps us see the world from an autistic person’s perspective.
Designed for:
A half day course designed for anyone working within social/healthcare.
Course aim:
The course will focus on the main BBVs – Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C and HIV.
Why do this course?
Participants will be able to:
Designed for: All Nurses, care staff in day, domiciliary and residential services for adults; care workers and informal carers; care workers employed under Direct Payment. Any care staff requiring update information and knowledge on Chronic Diseases.
Course aim: The course is aimed to give a basic introduction to five common chronic diseases, to present an overview of each chronic disease and its management and to identify Practical and useful tips.
What’s included? Hypertension, Coronary Heart disease, Heart Failure, Diabetes and COPD
Designed For:
All Nurses, care staff in day, domiciliary and residential services for adults; care workers and informal carers; care workers employed under Direct Payments. Any care staff requiring updated information and knowledge on incontinence management.
Course Aim:
The course is aimed at updating existing knowledge and skills in maintaining continence / managing incontinence and to provide good catheter care. Teaching practical measures to help staff manage continence issues better and to improve outcomes for clients.
What’s included?
· Hints and tips for a healthy bladder and bowel
· Identifying when to signpost to an appropriate health professional for assessment
· Catheter Care
· Correct use of Sheaths and appliances
· Pad fitting and troubleshooting
Designed for: This course is for Registered Nurses and Health Care Support Workers.
Course aim:
What’s included?
Designed For:
This course is for Registered Nurses and Health Care Support Workers. The session is designed to be an overview of basic skin care and preventative measures linked to the reduction of pressure ulcer
Course Aim:
The course provides the learner with the knowledge and practical clinical skills associated with the prevention of pressure ulcers.
What’s included?
On completion of this session each individual will have an understanding of:
· Basic anatomy and physiology of the skin
· The causes of pressure and moisture damage
· Risk factors associated with its development
· Repositioning and ’30 degree tilt’
· Equipment
· Documentation
Designed for: Care workers in domiciliary settings working either directly with adults or who are supporting/supervising those who are.
Course overview: Effective communication is central to the provision of compassionate, high-quality nursing care. The workshop encourages individuals to develop a more conscious style of communicating with patients and carers, with the aim of improving health outcomes and patient satisfaction
Learning objectives:
This Workshop is designed to give individuals an opportunity to identify important communication skills such as listening, questioning, and develop an understanding and awareness of the effect of non-verbal communication. This will include:
· Excellent communication ...What it looks like.
· Barriers to Communication
· Good Questions
· Probing Questions
· Active Listening Skills
· Speaking with Confidence
· The Communication Funnel
· Non-verbal Communication
· Your Personal Action Plan
Designed for: Registered managers, personnel staff, senior care staff responsible for handling complaints
Course aim: During this session, care providers will be supported to look at complaints not as a criticism of their services, but as an opportunity for service improvement - to enable culture change and remove the stigma that surrounds complaints by exploring complaints in an appreciative way. Care providers will be supported to update their own complaints policies, procedures and practice as part of the morning’s activities.
What’s included?
Designed for: All staff working in a Mental Health setting or coming into contact with people with mental illness and/or personality disorder
Course aim: This training is designed to support staff to better-manage difficult and hostile / challenging situations with effective communication styles that help to reduce conflict escalation and improve service-user / service-provider interactions.
What’s included?
Designed for:
Practitioners in Health & Social Care wishing to increase their effectiveness at identifying the personal needs and outcomes being referred to them and improve the effectiveness of their own referral practice and achieve the best outcomes for their service users.
Course overview:
This 2-day workshopaims to offer a clear approach to triage decisions which achieves the best possible outcomes for people asking for help from services. It provides a framework for assessing risk/impact and formulating the duty of the service or practitioner to act.
Learning objectives:
At the end of this two day course, participants will have
Designed for:
Direct Care Workers who have been designated a workplace First Aider.
Course aim:
The aim of the course is to provide students with the knowledge and skills to administer Emergency First Aid in the Workplace.
This course must be repeated every three years to remain valid.
Please note: as this is an accredited course attendees will be assessed throughout the day and all attendees need to produce a form of photo ID to the trainer, for example: Passport, Driving License, ‘Proof of Age’ card, Work Identification Card, Rail Card, Student Union Card, Foreign ID Card, EU Card or Disability Card.
What's included?
The assessment will include an active practical element, including the requirement to kneel on the floor and practice CPR on a mannequin. Delegates should discuss any concerns with their manager before applying.
The dress code for attending first aid courses is casual but comfortable, not revealing or restrictive. For this reason we ask that you dress appropriately or bring a change of clothing.
Designed for:
Care home managers and team leaders
Other health and social care staff and volunteers are welcome to attend
Course aims and objectives:
END OF LIFE CLINICAL ISSUES
Aims of the session are to
· increase understanding and recognition of when End of Life is occurring
· explore and deepen understanding of clinical signs, (breathlessness, pain and agitation)
· better understand clinical interventions to support patient and families
TALKING WITH PATIENTS AND FAMILIES AT THE END OF LIFE
Aims of the session are to
· encourage a professional conversation and sharing of good practice
· explore issues such as anger, denial and grief
· enable practitioners to better deal with difficult conversations
· revisit the ‘CARE DECISIONS LAST DAYS OF LIFE’ documentation
· explore the wider issues of decision making at the end of life
Designed for:
Staff who work with and support those with Epilepsy
Course overview:
The course will cover all aspects of Basic Epilepsy care, including causes, diagnosis, classifications, treatment options and first aid
Learning objectives:
· Definition
· Causes
· Diagnosis & seizure classifications
· Treatment - including types of anticonvulsant medications, side effects, VNS and surgery
· Lifestyle choices and self-management
· Basic first aid for self-resolving seizures
· Observations, recordings, risk assessment and information sharing
Designed for:
This course is useful for anyone working in social care who is interested in gaining an overview of FGM
Course aims and objectives:
Gain an understanding of
· FGM and why communities practice it;
· mandatory reporting requirements;
· how to initiate a conversation with victims of FGM ;
· terminology commonly used by FGM practicing communities;
· FGM and safeguarding issues;
· implications of FGM on victims;
· the UK Law and FGM protection orders;
Designed for:
Independent Sector Team Leaders, Managers, Deputies, senior staff and those managing people
Course overview:
This two-day training workshop is about equipping attendees with a range of skills to confidently carry out essential management tasks (such as initial reviews, supervision & appraisal, disciplinaries, managing grievances, absences and under-performance).
Learning objectives:
This is a participative course and participants will be asked to join in with a range of exercises and case studies. Group discussion, presentation and handouts will also be used. Attendees may be asked to consider and discuss examples, issues and dilemmas from their own experience / practice. At the end of this two-day training workshop, participants will
Designed for:
All those in social care settings working with and supporting others who may experience mental health distress and/or illness.
Learning objectives:
During the day, participants will
Aimed at:
All professionals and support workers, working with parents before and after the birth of their baby and foster parents caring for infants
To include:
Outcomes:
• To give professionals the basis to be able to pass key messages on to parents, through knowledge and new resources
• To empower all parents to have confidence, independence and self-esteem
• A reduction in risks to infant health and wellbeing
Designed for:
• Types and causes of visual impairment
• How sight loss affects you
• Tactile learning
• Communication Skills
• Practical learning
Course aim:
• Types and causes of visual impairment
• How sight loss affects you
• Tactile learning
• Communication Skills
• Practical learning
Designed for:
Multi agency training designed for practitioners working with children and young people
Course Overview:
The training will improve participants’ ability to identify problematic or harmful behaviour and respond to concerns using the All Wales Protocol on the Management of Young
People engaged in Sexually Harmful Behaviour. This course will not provide resources for direct work but will improve confidence.
Learning objectives:
· Develop an understanding of what is meant by the term sexually harmful behaviour (“SHB”)
· To distinguish developmentally healthy behaviours from those that are problematic or harmful
· Explore attitudes and beliefs around sexually harmful behaviour
· Identify how practitioners respond to sexually harmful behaviour through use of the ‘All Wales protocol’
Designed for:
Dementia Champions and Social Care staff who wish to gain knowledge and insight into the experience of a person living with dementia.
Course overview:
Participating in a Virtual Dementia Tour session will give a person with a healthy brain the experience of what dementia might be like. By understanding dementia from the person's point of view we can change practice, reduce issues and improve their lives.
Learning objectives:
The Virtual Dementia Tour deprives participants of their primary senses to simulate the frustration and anxiety those living with the condition face on a daily basis. This innovative training opportunity uses a converted bus to give people a better understanding of dementia, as well as working to improve care standards.
The experience is designed to impair vision, touch and hearing, making it very difficult to understand and interact with the environment.
The practical session will then be followed by a thorough debrief in which participants will reflect on their experience and discuss how this may be used in their work.
PLEASE NOTE: If you have or have ever had Epilepsy, Seizures, Migraines or any heart condition, or are or may be pregnant, it is advisable to discuss your application with SCWDP Training beforehand
Please find below a list of flyers specifically for adult care staff. If you wish to apply then please click Apply for a Course
Action Learning for Domiciliary Care Managers
Adult Safeguarding for Managers
Attract – Retain – Develop: A workshop for care providers
Autism Awareness
Autism (Advanced)
Autism Reality Experience
Blood Borne Viruses
Chronic Condition Management
Promotion of Continence and Management of Incontinence
Infection Prevention and Control Training
Skin Care and Pressure Damage Prevention Basic Awareness
Communication Skills social care staff
Complaints Training for Social Care Providers
Conflict Management (in relation to individuals with mental illness and personality disorder)
Continuing NHS Healthcare
Effective Referral Conversations
Emergency First Aid at Work
End of Life Care Training
Epilepsy Awareness
Female Genital Mutilation (“FGM”)
Management Skills for those new to managing people
Mental Health Awareness
Safer Sleep for Babies
Sensory Impairment Training
Sexually Harmful Behaviour
Virtual Dementia Tour
Key outcomes covered in the AL sessions
• Understand action learning theory and practice
• Experience being part of a safe and controlled action learning set
• Apply action learning to solve problems and develop critical leadership skills
Additional outcomes
AL is primarily about individuals resolving issues and problems that are pertinent to themselves and their organisation with the help of insightful non-directive questions from a group (the set).
AL will become an additional tool to group/team work techniques practised in the independent care sector in West Wales. Plus, the conventions of AL will provide a clear structure to the following leadership processes:
· Prioritising
· Resolving issues
· Collaborative working
· Decision making
· Taking action
· Reflecting on action
· Creating accountable methods of working
Designed for:
This course is designed for managers and senior staff to develop/ refresh skills and knowledge in managing suspected and actual cases of abuse within their service settings, with the emphasis on submitting a good quality referral
Course aim:
To provide managers and designated staff with the knowledge and understanding of their roles and responsibilities within Adult Safeguarding to enable them to receive, clarify and refer alerts and manage immediate risks
Why do this course?
At the end of the course you will be able to demonstrate an understanding of:
Designed for:
Managers, Deputies and staff working in a care setting with a responsibility for recruitment and staff development
Course aim and objectives
A one-day interactive, thought provoking workshop to care providers in West Wales to provide the skills and knowledge to understand and explore ways to attract, retain and develop their people. Participants will leave the workshop able to: