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Rights, Risks and activities in the care of people with dementia delivered by Dementia trainer Buz Loveday

This one-day course split over two consecutive days provides guidance on ways of working to uphold the rights of people with dementia and support them to be meaningfully occupied, while managing risk to ensure maximum benefits

Delegates must attend part 1 & 2 to complete the course

Who should attend?
Anyone with an understanding of dementia and person-centred care who is 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.

This course will provide a three year qualification in Emergency First Aid at Work (EFAW) for staff who are either coming to the end of their existing EFAW qualification or for staff who do not have a EFAW qualification and require it for their job role.

PCC STAFF
Please note there is now a £20 nominal charge to book this course - please enter your services cost code when booking (not applicable for Children's or Adult's Social Care staff).

Forming Good Attachments Target Group
All carers within their probationary year induction period. All other carers who need an update on policy, practice and research.

By the end of the course, participants should be able to:

• Outline how attachments are formed

• Identify how disruptions experienced by children impact on them

• Explain how an inability to form attachments manifests itself

• Devise strategies to repair and re-establish attachments, use them, and transfer them as necessary

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

Managing the performance of a virtual or hybrid team has been one of the most difficult adjustments for our managers to make since the start of the pandemic. Drawing on the most recent research and best practice, this virtual workshop aims to provide managers with useful tools and techniques to take away and practise with their teams.

Practical course aimed at teaching correct load handling techniques to staff

This course will provide an essential introduction to the Mosaic system, covering the essential skills you will need to navigate the system and maintain client records.

This session will be held online using Microsoft Teams - a link to the online meeting will be attached to the booking confirmation email.

Any PCC manager could be called upon to conduct a workplace investigation as part of their management duties. This overview of the subject on Microsoft Teams will give managers the essential entry-level process and policy information.

This seminar is supported on Teams by a self-study digital module that explores the topic in more depth with a case study and review of essential skills.

Trauma informed model of care (TIMOC) training is aimed at social workers, personal advisors and foster carers working with children and young people who experienced trauma. The training will explain the impact of trauma on our body and how our mind processes information,help participants in the training to better understand behaviour often linked to you people who have experienced trauma. The Training will cover signs and symptoms of trauma adding assessments of young people's needs in this area. The training then goes onto explore how to meet the care needs of these young people, with practical advice for everyday care. Simple direct tools which can be used by all will also be explained. The course will also cover Fast Feet, explaining this theraputic intervention.

How should attend: Social Workers, personal advisors and foster carers working with children and young people who have experienced trauma.

***THIS TRAINING IS FOR CHILDREN'S SOCIAL CARE STAFF ONLY***

‘You lot don’t care! You’re going to take our kids away and you get a bonus for that’
‘Why aren’t you going to the neighbours down the road, they’re much worse than us!’
‘What do you know? Do you have kids of your own?’

Are these kinds of ‘heart-sink’ phrases familiar? Do you or your staff frequently find themselves on the defensive as practitioners or as managers? In an environment of diminishing resources and increasing demand on services, we need a fresh and imaginative approach.
Motivational Interviewing is a framework of intervention, brought together in the 1990s by Professor William Miller and Professor Stephen Rollnick. It is an approach designed to work with those most resistant to change or stuck in entrenched behaviours. The premise of Motivational Interviewing is that motivation is not a ‘fixed state’ that a person does or does not have. Rather, motivation ebbs and flows depending on many factors such as circumstances, mood and so forth. The skilled practitioner (or manager) will harness whatever very little motivation there might be, and help it move in the right direction. The Motivational Interviewing approach borrows in from other sources such as Carl Rogers’ person-centred counselling; Socratic thinking and Prochaska & DiClemente’s Cycle of Behaviour change.
The key principles are:
• Engagement with the client, rather than doing something to them – i.e. change cannot be forced or pushed on to someone. It has to be internal for the client to be meaningful and long term.
• Rolling with resistance (NB this is not rolling over or being passive)
• Express empathy
• Avoid conflict
• Developing discrepancy in client’s thinking
• Support self-responsibility
Clients are often stuck or ambivalent about making changes for themselves. Practitioners can easily collude with this ‘stuckness’, or out of frustration try to push people to action, which only increases resistance. Motivational Interviewing helps to make the practitioner aware of these tendencies, and give them options to work more powerfully in ways that create more possibility of change for their clients.
Our MI training course gives a highly interactive and practical experience of Motivational Interviewing, and its potential power to engage with people meaningfully, rather than do something to them. There will be opportunities for demonstration, discussion, and questions, conducted in ways that model the principles of a motivational skills approach. We will explore together how we can all nurture even the smallest steps of progress, with the emphasis on encouragement and trying to bring out the best in others as well as ourselves.