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Enabling and supporting people to learn and develop as they work is a key leadership skill. This five hour virtual workshop on Microsoft Teams looks at how managers can support people to learn though a variety of management and coaching interventions.

Following the workshop, attendees will be directed to the extensive library of reading and digital study materials on this subject available on Knowledge Hub. 

Help us to develop the long-term vision for the Connectivity programme that oversees our move to our new ways of working and supports us to deliver our corporate plan.

Any PCC member of staff is very welcome to participate in this 60-minute facilitated workshop on Microsoft Teams

This 5day course is based on the inter-professional curriculum framework for Back Care Advisers giving the opportunity for the delegate to reach the standards of a Key Worker (manual handling)/ Lead Trainer as recommended by National Back Exchange. 

Who should attend?

Please note to be a lead trainer relevant professional qualifications and at least 5 years working in a healthcare, educational or social care setting are required. Staff without this can still attend the course but will work under the supervision of the lead trainer. 

This half-day course provides an introduction to key facts about dementia and the essential components of person-centred care

Who should attend?
Anyone involved in the care or support of people with dementia in any setting

This course is a virtual course run via Zoom or Teams - joining instructions will be sent to via diary invite a week before the course date.

Please note, this course will have regular breaks for participants so please ensure you take yourself away from the screen. The course is aimed to be interactive

Making Every Contact Count Healthy Conversation Skills

Making Every Contact Counts - Healthy Conversation Skills (MECC HCS) is an approach that uses the millions of day-to-day interactions that organisations and individuals have with people to support them in making positive changes to their health and wellbeing, by using open discovery questions and active listening skills. MECC HCS is about enhancing the conversations we are already having with individuals. It's not about adding to already busy workloads.

The course is divided into two ½ day sessions set a week apart alongside four
e- learning modules to be completed before session two. Both sessions and elearning must be completed to gain the accredited Royal Society for Public Health certificate.

This course enables practitioners to understanding the dynamics of sibling groups with specific issues or complex histories. The course explores the impact of both placing children together and separating them. A range of theories will enable practitioners to consider short medium and long term issues for placement of siblings. Alongside this practitioners will be supported to consider the impact of trauma on children and young people and how this may be triggered in sibling relationships even long after they have been removed. Practitioners will consider the impact across the whole of a child’s development of remain or separating from siblings.

Control of substances hazardous to health (COSHH)

Who should attend?
Any employee coming into contact with hazardous substances in the workplace.

This course requires delegates to be enrolled on the ECDL programme before booking on this course and charges may apply. Please email ECDL@Portsmouthcc.gov.uk for more information.

ECDL Extra is a recognised qualification at Level 2 and is deemed to be equivalent with GCSE grades A* to C.

ECDL Extra builds on the users basic knowledge of Microsoft Office and improves their understanding of Word, Excel and PowerPoint

This is a 90-minute monthly seminar for any PCC, GBC or CCG project manager, primarily for those relatively new to project management.

It is facilitated on Microsoft Teams on a drop-in / drop-out basis, so attendees can participate for all or part of the time allocated, depending on their other commitments.

The seminars will be an opportunity for participants to ask questions, share stories relating to their practice and get coaching from the facilitator and the other participants.

Guest speaker to be confirmed

Who Should Complete it?

Experienced care staff working for PCC or the private sector wanting a refresher course in the moving and handling of people