Health, Social Care & Wellbeing Courses
Please see below for courses available.
- Social Care Training
- Mandatory Healthcare
- Safeguarding Courses
- Moving and Handling People Training
- Infection Control
- Equality & Diversity Training
- Dementia Awareness
- Epilepsy Awareness
- Autism Awareness
- Mental Capacity Act & DoLS
- Managing Challenging Behaviour
- Professional Boundaries Course
- Medication Training
- Disability Awareness
- Mental Health Training
Social Care Training
This Health and Social Care training course is designed to cover all training elements of The Care Certificate.
All topics are covered in a 2-day training programme and are aligned to all the 15 standards within the Care Certificate.
Additionally, it can also be made into a 1-day mandatory training course, if only a few training needs are identified.
This social care training can be made bespoke and rearranged to cover your bespoke current organisational training needs. It provides the knowledge care workers need to help them towards achieving The Care Certificate and to provide the best dignified care to the individuals they are supporting. This course is a perfect induction programme for staff new to care.
It can also be attended by existing care staff requiring refresher training.
Course content
Day 1:
- Understand Your Role
- Your Personal Development
- Duty of Care
- Communication
- Handling Information
- Work in a Person Centred Way
- Equality and Diversity
- Privacy and Dignity
- Awareness of Mental Health, Dementia and Learning Disability (inc. Awareness of The Mental Capacity Act)
Day 2:
- Health and Safety
- Basic Life Support (including practical)
- Moving and Assisting People Training (including basic practical)
- Infection Prevention and Control
- Fluids and Nutrition
- Safeguarding Children & Adults
Our health, social care and wellbeing courses are delivered at your venue or via live interactive video conference training. We also run open courses – please enquire for available dates.
Duration: 1-2 days depending on requirements
Cost: Please enquire for cost (all 15 standards)
Mandatory Healthcare
This Mandatory Health training course is designed with both health and care professionals in mind. The healthcare subjects covered in this training are aligned to the Skills for Health UK Core Skills Training Framework and will support healthcare and care staff to be compliant with their mandatory training requirements for the subject areas covered and to the levels covered.
Course content
Healthcare course content includes a variety of the following subjects, tailored to your specific needs:
- Health & safety training
- Resuscitation training (level 2) (including practical)
- Moving and Assisting People Training (level 1) (including practical)
- Information governance training
- Infection prevention & control training (level 2)
- Fire safety awareness training
- Conflict resolution training
- Equality and diversity training
- Safeguarding children training (level 2)
- Safeguarding adults training (level 2)
Our health, social care and wellbeing courses are delivered at your venue or via live interactive video conference training. We also run open courses – please enquire for available dates.
Duration: 1 day
Cost: Please enquire for cost
Safeguarding Courses
Safeguarding Children & Young People Level 2
This Safeguarding course is designed for those who work regularly with children and/or families. It ensures that all people who have contact with children or young people are equipped to carry out their safeguarding responsibilities correctly and competently.
Learners will gain a thorough understanding of Safeguarding Children and of the safeguarding principals and procedures.
Course content
- Key principles of legislation which protects children and young people and your role within it
- Identify relevant policies and procedures that support safeguarding and child protection
- Identify vulnerable groups
- Different types of abuse
- Recognising signs and behaviour that may indicate abuse
- The concept of Significant Harm
- Understand Prevent and other key risks
- How to report suspicions of child abuse
- How to respond to disclosures and allegations
- Recording principles
- The roles of other agencies, and the importance of sharing information when a child may be at risk
- Develop your awareness and knowledge of legal procedural frameworks
- What happens after a referral
Our health, social care and wellbeing courses are delivered at your venue or via live interactive video conference training. We also run open courses – please enquire for available dates.
Duration: 3 hours
Cost: Please enquire for cost
Safeguarding Children & Young People Level 3
This Safeguarding course is suitable for managers and team leaders who are in charge of settings in which staff work regularly with children and/or families. This course takes a more in-depth look into safeguarding and will also give you the relevant information you need to ensure that you are able to deal confidently with all matters relating to safeguarding children.
Course content
- Key principles of legislation which protects children and young people and your role within it and the role of other staff
- Identify vulnerable groups
- Risk assessment process and recording
- Different types of abuse
- Recognising signs and behaviour that may indicate abuse
- The concept of Significant Harm
- Understand Prevent and other key risks
- How to report suspicions of child abuse
- How to respond to disclosures and allegations
- Recording principles
- The roles of other agencies, and the importance of sharing information when a child may be at risk
- What happens after a referral
- Identify relevant policies and procedures that support safeguarding and child protection
- Child Protection Policy
- Framework, implementation and structure
Our health, social care and wellbeing courses are delivered at your venue or via live interactive video conference training. We also run open courses – please enquire for available dates.
Duration: 1 Day (6 hours)
Cost: Please enquire for cost
Safeguarding Adults Level 2
This Safeguarding course is designed for those who work with vulnerable adults. It ensures that all people who have contact with vulnerable adults are equipped to carry out their safeguarding responsibilities correctly and competently.
Learners will gain a thorough understanding of safeguarding adults and of the safeguarding principals and procedures.
Course content
- Key principles of legislation and your role within it
- Identify relevant policies and procedures that support the safeguarding of adults
- Identify vulnerable groups
- Different types of abuse
- Recognising signs and behaviour that may indicate abuse
- Understand Prevent and other key risks
- How to report suspicions of abuse
- How to respond to disclosures and allegations
- Recording principles
- The roles of other agencies, and the importance of sharing information when someone may be at risk
- What happens after a referral
- Develop your awareness and knowledge of legal procedural frameworks
Our health, social care and wellbeing courses are delivered at your venue or via live interactive video conference training. We also run open courses – please see link below for available dates.
Duration: 3 hours
Cost: Please enquire for cost
Moving and Handling People Training
This Moving and Handling People Training is most relevant to healthcare workers and providers. It is designed to enable staff to be confident and competent in providing correct people moving techniques so that risks are reduced to yourself and patients/residents. Train the Trainer course also available, please enquire for details.
Course content
Practical and theoretical first aid training covering:
- Manual handling responsibilities and the law
- Anatomy of the Spine and types of injuries
- Biomechanics and Ergonomics
- Safe lifting techniques
- Lifting objects
- Key elements of people moving
- Risks and controls related to people moving
- People moving risk assessments/personal plan
- People moving equipment
- People moving controversial techniques
- People moving good techniques
- Practical assessment including the use of equipment for moving people and the movement and transfer of people
Our health, social care and wellbeing courses are delivered at your venue. Max number of learners 8-12 depending on room size and facilities available.
Duration: 3 hours
Cost: Please enquire for cost
Infection Control
This Infection Control (including COVID-19 guidance) course is ideal for all workplaces where work activities could put employees at risk of passing on or contracting an infection in particular health and social care environments. This course can be adapted and delivered bespoke to your environment and industry.
Course content
The course now also includes coronavirus COVID-19 guidelines throughout:
- Impact of an outbreak
- Vulnerable people & the risk of infection
- Signs & symptoms of infection
- Causes of infection
- How infection spreads(infection cycle)
- Infection control procedures, standard and extra guidance on COVID-19, including:
- Hand hygiene and hand care
- Personal hygiene and uniforms
- Exclusion policies
- Use of protective clothing (PPE)
- Isolation and quarantine procedures
- Cleaning and disinfection
- Management of waste and sharps
- Linen procedures
- Spillage procedures (bodily fluids)
- Vaccination
- Access to reliable information and training
Our health, social care and wellbeing courses are delivered at your venue or via live interactive video conference training. We also run open courses – please enquire for available dates.
Duration: 3 hours
Cost: Please enquire for cost
Equality & Diversity Training
This Equality & Diversity training course is suitable for all staff, as everyone in the workplace has a responsibility for supporting equality and diversity. This course is a great way to ensure your employees are aware and knowledgeable with regards to Equality & Diversity in the workplace, including the Equality Act 2010.
Course content
- Introduction to Equality & Diversity and how it can affect the workplace
- Understanding what ‘Equality and Diversity’ means
- Ways in which people are unique
- Personal assumptions and attitudes
- Protected characteristics
- Understand differing types of discrimination
- Promoting Equality & Diversity
- Creating a positive and inclusive culture
Our health, social care and wellbeing courses are delivered at your venue. Max number of learners 8-12 depending on room size and facilities available.
Duration: 3 hours
Cost: Please enquire for cost
Dementia Awareness
This Dementia course has been designed as an introduction to dementia for new starters or as a refresher for existing staff to update their current knowledge. This Dementia course is ideal for employees from many different environments, in particular healthcare establishments including care homes and other care providers.
This dementia course will enable learners to understand what dementia is and how to manage and provide support to someone with dementia in a dignified and appropriate manner. This dementia training course also reflects on the effects that dementia has on families and carers and how to provide them with essential support.
Course content
- Introduction to dementia
- Different kinds of dementia
- Symptoms of dementia and diagnosis
- Communication
- How to assist people with dementia
- Supporting individuals with dementia, their families and carers
- Understanding and managing behaviour
- Empowering individuals with dementia and promoting independence
Our health, social care and wellbeing courses are delivered at your venue or via live interactive video conference training. We also run open courses – please enquire for available dates.
Duration: 3 hours
Cost: Please enquire for cost
Epilepsy Awareness
This Epilepsy training course is ideal for healthcare staff, schools and nurseries as well as many other environments where there is a training and learning need.
In this Epilepsy training course, learners will take a look at the causes and effects of epilepsy, ways to care safely for someone who is having an epileptic seizure and how to support vulnerable people with epilepsy.
Course content
- Relevant UK legislation
- An introduction to the brain
- Different epilepsy syndromes
- Causes of epilepsy
- Diagnosing epilepsy
- Treating epilepsy
- What to do when someone is having an epileptic seizure
- Managing epilepsy
- Impact of epilepsy on a person’s life
- Supporting vulnerable people with epilepsy
- Maintaining dignity and respect
Our health, social care and wellbeing courses are delivered at your venue or via live interactive video conference training. We also run open courses – please enquire for available dates.
Duration: 3 hours
Cost: Please enquire for cost
Autism Awareness
This Autism Awareness training course is designed as an introduction to autism, for new starters or as a refresher for existing staff to update their current knowledge. This autism training course is ideal for employees from many different environments, including healthcare establishments, schools and nurseries.
In this training course, learners will develop their understanding of the diverse condition of autism. The aim of this training course is to provide a better awareness of the term “autism” and “autistic spectrum disorder” (ASD) and how to support individuals with autism.
Course content
- Introduction to autism
- Causes, symptoms and diagnosis of autism
- Autistic behaviours
- Understanding and working with individuals with autism
- Managing autism through interventions
- Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) including Asperger’s syndrome
- Legal responsibilities and legislation
Our health, social care and wellbeing courses are classroom based, delivered at your venue or via live interactive video conference training. We also run open courses – please enquire for available dates.
Duration: 3 hours
Cost: Please enquire for cost
Mental Capacity Act & DoLS
This Mental Capacity course has been designed to help healthcare staff understand the Mental Capacity Act (MCA) and the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) and their implementation throughout the social care and healthcare sectors.
It is suitable for new healthcare starters or as a refresher for existing healthcare staff to update their current knowledge. This course emphasises the importance of person-centred approaches to support individuals who may lack capacity to make their own decisions and how to take appropriate action and protect the welfare and freedom of choice of individuals cared for.
This Mental Capacity Act (MCA) and the DoLS course will explain how the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) may apply to your setting and outlines what your responsibilities are.
Course content
- What the Mental Capacity Act is
- The legal responsibilities under the Mental Capacity Act 2005
- The five principles of the Mental Capacity Act and how to apply them in practice
- How to ensure individuals are supported and involved when making decisions
- How the provisions in the act keep people safe
- Assessing capacity
- Best Interest principles
- Advance decision
- Importance of good record keeping
- What Deprivation of Liberty is
- How the safeguards impact on individuals and those supporting them
- How Deprivation of Liberties assessments are carried out
Our health, social care and wellbeing courses are delivered at your venue or via live interactive video conference training. We also run open courses – please see link below for available dates.
Duration: 3 hours
Cost: Please enquire for cost
Managing Challenging Behaviour
Our Managing Challenging Behaviour course examines why people behave the way they do and the function of their behaviour. It also ensures that staff understand how to manage challenging behaviour and defuse difficult and potentially threatening situations. We can make any necessary updates to the course to make it bespoke to your environment and learning needs.
Course content
- What challenging behaviour is
- Why people behave the way they do and what the function of their behaviour is
- Recognising triggers and behaviour patterns
- Importance of good communication skills
- Positive strategies for managing challenging behaviour
- Improve our interventions during a crisis situation
Our health, social care and wellbeing courses are delivered at your venue or via live interactive video conference training. We also run open courses – please enquire for available dates.
Duration: 3 hours
Cost: Please enquire for cost
Professional Boundaries Course
Suitable for all settings including health & social care and schools. Our Professional Boundaries course helps staff to understand that there are limits that help us to develop effective relationships in the workplace. It focuses on protecting both the person receiving the service and the person and organisation providing the service.
Course content
- Recognising the importance of boundaries
- Crossing of boundaries means and be able to give examples of this
- Appropriate professional behaviour within the workplace
- Recognising what could happen if we cross boundaries with our service users
- Understanding safe ways of working including proper use of social media
- Agreed ways of working
- Confidentiality
- How to manage boundaries
- Recording and reporting
- Policy and procedures
Duration: 2-2.5 hours
Cost: Please enquire for cost
Medication Training
We can provide the following 3 Medication training courses, for more information on these courses, please get in touch.
Safe Administration of Medication Full Day
On completion of training, successful candidates should be able to:
- Legal framework and carers stance when administering medication
- Drug classification, medication names and labelling
- Routes and types of medication
- Principles of prescriptions
- Homely remedies
- Storage and disposal of medication
- Self-administration and compliance aids
- Medication contraindications, allergies, overdosing and side effects
- Monitored Dosage Systems and medication abbreviations
- Documentation and record keeping (Medications Administration Records)
- Missed doses, errors and covert administration of medication
- Recognising and reporting changes in the service user
Safe Administration of Medication Half Day
- Definitions and classification of medications
- Methods of administration
- Process of medicine management and organisation’s procedure
- Administration procedure
- Medication storage
- Medication disposal
- When things go wrong
Epilepsy and Buccal Midazolam
- Understanding seizures and epilepsy
- To develop an understanding of:
- What Buccal Midazolam is and how it works
- When Buccal Midazolam is used in epilepsy
- The emergency action plan for epilepsy
- Demonstrate and describe the correct procedure for the safe and effective administration of Buccal Midazolam
- To recognise potential difficulties
Duration: 3 hours
Cost: Please enquire for cost
Disability Awareness
This Disability Awareness course provides information and advice to ensure that services, policies and procedures comply with current legislation and to open up services to a wider range of users. Learners will leave with a general awareness of how to make services accessible and how to interact positively with people with disabilities.
Course content
- Understand your rights and responsibilities regarding current legislation
- Understand key words including disability, discrimination, inclusion, equality, diversity
- Discuss stereotyping and unconscious bias
- Identify barriers that people with disabilities face
- Understand different approaches to disability and how this can affect the service you provide
- Understand how you can make your organisation inclusive and accessible to all
- Use appropriate language and communication skills when interacting with disabled people
- Gain the confidence to interact with disabled people in all aspects of your organisation
Our health, social care and wellbeing courses are delivered at your venue or via live interactive video conference training (max number of learners 12 people). We also run open courses – please enquire for available dates.
Duration: 3 hours
Cost: Please enquire for cost
Mental Health Training
Please click here to visit our mental health training page for information on the various courses we provide.
Silvana Holt
Silvana has been delivering training for over 12 years to many organisations across various industries, specialising in Health & Safety related topics, Health & Social Care training and Employee and Leadership Development programmes.
EXCELLENT TRAINING The staff really enjoyed the training. They found it very interesting and said the trainer kept their attention throughout the day. They said it was the best First Aid training they had attended.
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All training is completed in an informal and interactive manner and support teams have provided positive feedback on the learning aims achieved, which has in turn had positive outcomes for our clients.
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Silvana is always very accommodating when it comes to fitting in a course that we require at short notice and has also travelled to meet our support workers too.
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