Search for Learning and Development Services and Pathways

This is a one day course including theory and practice

Who Should Attend?

New staff whose role directly or indirectly involves the handling of people should attend this course. 

Leadership in dementia Care delivered by Dementia trainer Buz Loveday

This one-day split over two consecutive days course focuses on the knowledge and skills needed to lead a staff team to provide person-centred care to people with dementia

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

Who should attend?
Anyone with an understanding of dementia and person-centred care who works in a senior role within a service that provides care or support to people with dementia.

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.

Lite Making Every Contact Count Healthy Conversation Skills

MECC Lite encourages conversations to empower others towards healthier lifestyle choices taking into account the wider social determinants that influence health and wellbeing. Everyone who comes into contact with members of the public has the opportunity to have MECC conversations.

Who is the training suitable for?

Everyone who comes into contact with members of the public as part of their role paid or voluntary has the opportunity to have MECC conversations. MECC Lite is a condensed accredited version of MECC Healthy Conversation Skills Training.

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 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.

To increase awareness, understanding and response to victims of domestic abuse.

NB: E-Learning will need to be completed prior to attending the course.

Organisations that provide services to children are required to incorporate into their recruitment and selection procedures measures that help deter, reject or identify people who might abuse children, or otherwise be unsuited to work with them. 

Making safeguarding and promotion of the welfare of children an integral part of human resources management in organisations that work with children is an essential part of creating safe environments.

Following the 2004 Bichard Inquiry Report there are legal duties on schools, FE colleges and a wide range of partner organisations to safeguard and promote the welfare of children.

For schools, Bichard specifically recommended that:

• Head teachers and school governors should receive training on how to ensure that interviews to appoint staff reflect the importance of safeguarding children
• No interview panel to appoint staff working in schools and colleges should be convened without at least one member being properly trained

Social Care Law Update Training for Social Work Practitioners and Managers:

Care Act 2014

• The importance of individual well-being
• The rights of self-funders
• What is a lawful assessment process (R(JF) v Merton [2017])
• The legality of the funding panel
• When must advocacy be provided (R(SG) v Haringey [2015])
• The “Luke Davey case”

Mental Capacity Act 2005

• The capacity assessment
• Best interests and the importance of wishes and feelings
• What happens when past & present wishes and feelings conflict?
• Best wishes and religious practices
• Private law v public law – funding decisions and best interests

Transition from Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards to Liberty Protection Safeguards

• What can be authorised by the new scheme?
• Who is the responsible body?
• The required assessments
• New professional roles
• The safeguards
• Wider reforms of the MCA
• Next steps