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Who are the sessions for?

All members are welcome to attend the briefings delivered by the directors to enhance their knowledge and understanding of each of the Directorates within Portsmouth City Council.

What will it cover?

The briefings delivered by directors will talk through the work of each Directorate including their strategic priorities and current challenges for their services.

Who are the sessions for?

All members are welcome to attend the briefings delivered by the directors to enhance their knowledge and understanding of each of the Directorates within Portsmouth City Council.

What will it cover?

The briefings delivered by directors will talk through the work of each Directorate including their strategic priorities and current challenges for their services.

Who are the sessions for?

All members are welcome to attend the briefings delivered by the directors to enhance their knowledge and understanding of each of the Directorates within Portsmouth City Council.

What will it cover?

The briefings delivered by directors will talk through the work of each Directorate including their strategic priorities and current challenges for their services.

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.

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).

THE VIRTUAL MEDICINES ROUND

This medication training online module fulfills the requirement from CQC and NICE for staff to have an annual update of the skills and knowledge required to administer medicines.

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.

***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.

This training is made up of 2 sections:

1. Prior to the work shop taking place you will be sent a training video to watch and asked to make notes on the questions presented to them, prior to the Q&A session.

2. The workshop will then take the form of a question and answer session, looking at the training you've watched and the questions you bring to the workshop.

This training is being run by CAMHS

Delegates must attend both dates to complete the course, please add both dates into your diary.

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.

Aim

To give health & social care staff (including professionals) an awareness of the concept
of self-neglect/hoarding, as included in the Safeguarding section of the Care Act 2014

Target Group
Health & social care staff in any setting

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 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.