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Supporting people with dementia and their carers throughout the dementia journey delivered by Dementia Trainer Janet Lallysmith 

Delegates must attend part 1 & 2 to complete the course.

This one-day course split over two consecutive days enables delegates to understand how best to support a person with dementia and their carers from diagnosis through to end of life

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 is an online workshop with 3 sessions aimed at introducing practitioners and managers to digital professionalism and its ethical, practical, professional and legal implications for practice.

This module raises participants’ awareness and offers a nuanced understanding of professional boundaries in changing practice context. This workshop offers a number of practical and reflective tools to think about and assess one’s online identity, boundaries and behaviour. The workshop will also examine the meaning of due diligence vis-à-vis people’s human rights and privacy and the ethical balance between the two. Furthermore, the workshop will examine online evidence and questions around traceability, sourcing, reliability, validity and admissibility of evidence and its inclusion in case notes and reports.

The First Aid at Work Requalification (FAWR) is suitable only for those delgates who have an in date First Aid at Work qualification and it is approaching expiry.

Please only book on this course if your certificate is due to expire with 3-4 months of the date of this course.

If your certificate has expired and it is less than one month since your expiry date please contact the course administrator to discuss your options.

The role of the Local Back Care Link is to do manual handling risk assessment and give guidance to work colleagues so they can avoid back injury at work. To facilitate this role the LBCL will receive support from the People Handling and Back Care Advisor. This 2 day course will give knowledge and skills to undertake manual handling assessment and to competency assess staff handling people

Who Should Attend?
Staff who have been nominated into the role of Local Back Care Link by the unit manager

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 course is for anyone working in the community on their own, including Adult and Children's workforce practitioners, housing and community workers. It is run by MAYBO - leaders in conflict management training and focuses on the interpersonal skills and techniques of staff safe when working alone rather than any physical interventions

This course is targeted at experienced professionals who are working with adolescents with harmful sexual behaviours (HSB). This includes practitioners in Social Care, Youth Offending and Specialist HSB Providers.

Participants should have a basic understanding of harmful sexual behaviours, either gained through attendance at our foundation courses or through relevant practice experience. In addition, participants also need to have practice experience of complex assessments generally and ideally some experience of assessments of sexual behaviours.

The First Aid at Work (FAW) course will alow delegates to act as a qualified first aider in the work place. This course will give delegates the Level 3 First at Work qualification, accredited by Qualsafe awards.

There is no need to attend Emergency First Aid at Work (EFAW) before attending this course. If you already hold the EFAW qualification, please contact the administrator of the course before booking.

If you are already FAW qualified and need to requalify please look for the First Aid at Work Requalification course. This is a two day course open to people who are appoaching the end of their three year FAW qualification.

This course will explore how to work with LAC children process using Mosaic

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

Delegates must attend both sessions to complete the course - please add both dates into your calendar.

Safeguarding Adults – Best Practice for Safeguarding Planning and Review Meetings -For Managers, Senior ASC Practitioners/Professionals involved in chairing and participating in Safeguarding meetings 

The training is split into two sessions over consecutive days and will enable managers and senior staff to chair and/or contribute to safeguarding meetings effectively and in line with the Care Act 2014, ensuring a safe outcome for the service user consistent wherever possible with their chosen outcome(s).

Who should attend?
Senior or experienced health and social care professionals, who are required to chair and/or attend such meetings. All participants would be expected to have a firm grasp of safeguarding issues prior to attending this training