Child Care Learning Courses

Attract – Retain – Develop: A workshop for care providers

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:

• Understand the importance of living our brand and how this impacts on our reputation and attraction.
• Understand the concept of employee engagement and how this affects the retention and development of our people
• Feel more confident to develop the talent and skills of others
• Write an intention and plan to put the learning into action

Autism Awareness

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

Autism (Advanced)

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  

Autism Reality Experience

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. 

Blood Borne Viruses

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:

·      Identify risks and sources of infection

·      Describe how viruses are transmitted and be aware of the MYTHS

·      Describe how conditions are diagnosed

·      Have an appreciation of the treatments available, and of services for individuals

·      Be able to identify good practice in relation to prevention and management

·      Understand the importance of pre-post-test counselling

Child Trafficking Workshop

Designed for:

This half day workshop is aimed at professionals who work with children in different settings including social care, police, education, health, immigration, law enforcement, youth justice and non-statuary agencies.

Course aim:

The training will cover the definition of child trafficking, the National Referral Mechanism, indicators of child trafficking and different forms of exploitation, resources available to professionals and examples of good practice across the country. The above content will be delivered in an interactive mode using case studies, DVD and art work created by young people.

Learning Objectives:

• Demonstrate awareness of child trafficking and procedures to be followed in cases of child trafficking.
• Recognise the different forms of exploitation as listed in the government guidance and apply it to assessment of non UK Citizen children.
• Demonstrate awareness of the national picture of the different trends and patterns of child trafficking based on National Crime Agency and NSPCC statistics

Communication Skills social care staff

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

Conflict Management (in relation to individuals with mental illness and personality disorder)

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?

• The psychology of conflict and difficult service user behaviours;
• Understanding Personality Disorder and behaviours commonly associated with emotional and behavioural dysregulation – particularly the psychology of Invalidation and ‘splitting’ defences (why some service users quickly become hostile and dysregulated);
• Learning to put behaviours into a ‘disorder’ context and managing challenging interactions with increased insight and skills;
• How to improve pre-visit risk assessments incorporating the HCR-20;
•  Develop a range of evidence-based de-escalation and conflict management skills;
• Learn to take control of difficult situations and de-escalating conflict and hostile behaviours in the most effective and safe way;
• Assertiveness and maximising outcomes in your interests;
•  Improve knowledge of situational risk-factors of increased risks to improve personal safety;
• Improved knowledge of body language and micro gestures to improve risk awareness and insights to client / service-user psychology and identify emotional states

Effective Referral Conversations

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

• increased confidence in their initial conversations with people requesting a service and ability to translate requests into well-being outcomes
• increased confidence in their judgments of foreseeable harm and prioritisation
• increased clarity about the process of setting and understanding expectations
• increased confidence in their formulations around what will help and in gaining collaboration from people requesting a service, as well as other services to support collaboration and retain self-management
•  ways of providing evidence to support a continuous learning process

Emergency First Aid at Work

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?

• How to deal with a first aid emergency
• Infection Control measures – gloves and other barriers
• The Primary Survey
• The Secondary Survey
• Discuss the causes of unconsciousness
• Performing CPR on adults, children and babies
• Choking procedures for adults, children and babies
• The treatment of shock
• Bleed management and the treatment of Various wounds
• Discuss the procedures for dealing with burns
• The need for and completion of Accident Report books and RIDDOR forms
• Accredited by Highfield Awarding Body for Compliance (HABC)

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.

Epilepsy Awareness

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

Female Genital Mutilation (“FGM”)

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;

Management Skills for those new to managing people

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

• Explore key management theories
• Consider and discuss a range of potential motivators and demotivators in staff performance
• · onsider a range of areas relevant to managing people, and potential dilemmas, scenarios and problems (as raised by participants and trainer) and identify appropriate / best practice responses
• Discuss related issues such as time management; open communication; assertiveness; early and appropriate identification and resolution of conflict, etc.

Mental Health Awareness

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 

• Identify and use appropriate / up-to-date language and terminology in relation to mental health problems
•  Demonstrate a basic awareness of how people with mental health problems have been supported throughout history
•  Discuss a range of possible causes of mental health problems
• Develop awareness of common types of mental health conditions (psychosis / neurosis / paranoia / affective disorders / schizophrenia / personality disorder etc.)
• Discuss public perceptions, attitudes and media portrayals of mental health problems
• Appreciate some of the difficulties / impairments experienced by people with mental health problems
• Explore principles of best practice in supporting service-users with a mental health problems.
•  Consider how services might provide needs-led, person-centred support (Maslow, Holistic approaches, talking therapies, medication, complimentary therapies, Medical vs social model etc.)
• Source further material on mental health problems that may be helpful, including suggested authors / websites etc.

Safer Sleep for Babies

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:

• An understanding of infant death and the increased risk to babies of younger parents – teenage parents are at considerably greater risk of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (cot death)
• Updates of the latest advice in safe infant care practices
• Examples of the tools available to communicate infant care messages to parents
•  Free information pack for participants to take away from the seminar

 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

Sensory Impairment Training

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

Sexually Harmful Behaviour

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’

Child Care Courses

Please find below a list of flyers specifically for child care staff. If you wish to apply then please click here. (hyperlink to apply for a course page)

Action Learning for Domiciliary Care Managers