Welcome to the “Excellence in Care Series”

We understand that a lot of businesses find it difficult to release all staff to attend training.  For this reason we are now running open courses at our training venue in Cheltenham to give organisations and individuals the opportunity to book onto a course with minimum disruption to the working day.

Our open courses are ideal for anyone working in the healthcare sector.  You can attend the courses as an individual or a number of your staff can be booked onto the course.  There are a maximum of 15 places available.

Training made easy for you

With a lot of new regulations coming into force, it is vital now more than ever that you are able to provide appropriate training for your workforce.

Supporting you with staff recruitment & retention

It’s a fact that quality training increases recruitment and aids retention.  A vital issue in your sector where good staff seem to be becoming ever more thin on the ground.  Our bespoke training packages are designed specifically to help you.

Helping you increased productivity

Well trained staff are able to carry out their duties more efficiently.  Organisations with a well trained workforce suffer less safeguard incidents.  Well trained staff work more efficiently and have more confidence in their job role.

Improving standards of care delivery

Safe Handling and Administration of Medication Training Level 1 & 2

This is a Level 1 and Level 2 course designed for healthcare professionals, who may have to administer medication and need to either refresh their existing skills and/or wish to learn more about medication and administration.

The aim of this Safe Handling and Administration of Medication Training is to update or impart medication knowledge in accordance with your organisations policies and procedures.  The course is essential for nurses and support workers who need to safely handle and administer medication on a daily basis. We highly recommend it to you as an excellent standard for safe medication practices.

The course teaches the practical skills needed to select, administer and record medicines. Theory is provided in a comprehensive handout.

Course Content

• Regulations
• Current legislation
• Prescription drugs
• Prescriptions & labels
• Categories of medication
• Routes of administration
• Refusal of medicines
• Covert medication
• Recording and documentation 
• Accountability and responsibility
• Drug disposal
• Drug errors
• Auditing medication
• Organisation paperwork including M.A.R. sheets
• Administration of medication
• Identify the  7 ‘Rights’ of medication administration
• Describe how to use a person centred approach in the administration of medication, whilst adhering to Mental Capacity Act
• Demonstration of administering techniques

Aims:

The aim of this Safe Handling and Administration of Medication Training is to update or impart medication knowledge in accordance with your organisations policies and procedures.  The course is essential for nurses and support workers who need to safely handle and administer medication on a daily basis. We highly recommend it to you as an excellent standard for safe medication practices.

The course teaches the practical skills needed to select, administer and record medicines. Theory is provided in a comprehensive handout.

Course Assessment and Certification

The trainer will check understanding, involvement and the ability of all students throughout the duration of the course.  A certificate of attendance will be provided.

Cost:  £78.00 per person which includes refreshments.

This course is delivered by our sister company Tidal Training Direct Ltd

Emergency First Aid at Work (EFAW)

First aid is defined as the help given to a sick or injured person until full medical treatment is available. The Health and Safety (First Aid) Regulations 1981 require an employer to provide suitable first aid cover in the workplace. Equally importantly, prompt attention and treatment can define the course of recovery for the casualty.

KEY POINTS

• Ofqual regulated Level 3 qualification
• Meets HSE requirements
• 6 Guided learning hours (Over 1 day)
• Valid for 3 years
• E-Certificate and course book included
• Assessed by a multi-choice questionnaire and practical observations
• Additional topics, such as Catastrophic Bleeding can be delivered on request

Certification

Upon completion delegates will be issued with an ofqual regulated EFAW certificate which is valid for 3 years.

Cost:  £99.00 

CALL TO BOOK

Level 3 Award in Emergency First Aid at Work (RQF) 1 Day Open Course to individual members of the public and professionals in their capacity as a nominated First Aider.

Full Course Content Here

Welcome to the “Excellence in Care Series”

We understand that a lot of businesses find it difficult to release all staff to attend training.  For this reason we are now running open courses at our training venue in Cheltenham to give organisations and individuals the opportunity to book onto a course with minimum disruption to the working day.

Our open courses are ideal for anyone working in the healthcare sector.  You can attend the courses as an individual or a number of your staff can be booked onto the course.  There are a maximum of 15 places available.

Training made easy for you

With a lot of new regulations coming into force, it is vital now more than ever that you are able to provide appropriate training for your workforce.

Supporting you with staff recruitment & retention

It’s a fact that quality training increases recruitment and aids retention.  A vital issue in your sector where good staff seem to be becoming ever more thin on the ground. Our bespoke training packages are designed specifically to help you.

Helping you increased productivity

Well trained staff are able to carry out their duties more efficiently.  Organisations with a well trained workforce suffer less safeguard incidents.  Well trained staff work more efficiently and have more confidence in their job role.

Improving standards of care delivery

Moving and Handling of People Training

This Moving and Handling Training course is aimed at those staff who move or aid the movement of the service users in their care.  The training covers all aspects of correct & safe people handling including lifting aids.  Practical instruction will be included when the training is delivered on-site, allowing staff the use of the actual equipment that the they will be working with from day to day.

The course is focused on providing attendees with the knowledge to protect themselves and those in their care from injury, whilst carrying out moving & handling procedures.

Course Content

• Relevant legislation
• Risk assessment
• Potential injuries
• Anatomy of the spine
• Correct moving techniques
• Importance of good base movement
• Moving & handling aids including Hoists
• Importance of communication
• Practical use of equipment

Aims:

We will introduce and demonstrate the principles of approved Moving and Handling of People techniques and enable staff to achieve a 24 hour approach to back care.

Objectives:

We look at the causes of lower back pain and other related manual handling injuries.

We also look at human anatomy and discover how we can sometimes cause harm to ourselves during everyday work activities. Once we are able to understand this we can take care to prevent occurrences of manual handling related injuries.

Legislation and risk assessments are also covered with staff being given basic knowledge they require to undertake a simple risk assessments and understand their responsibilities in keeping themselves and the people in their care safe.

Course Assessment and Certification

The trainer will check understanding, involvement and the ability of all students throughout the duration of the course.  A certificate of attendance will be provided.

Cost:  £78.00 per person which includes refreshments.

No places available.  Our next course is running in February 2022.  Click HERE to view the course.

5 Days: 12th, 13th, 19th, 20th, 21st October 2021

Post Critical Incident Stress Debrief Facilitator training is now being delivered via live webinar as well as onsite face to face training to organisations across the United Kingdom, from NHS Trusts to Corporates to Charities. This training ensures the safeguarding and support of employees facing ongoing or extremely stressful, traumatic or critical incidents. Days 1 & 2 cover pre & intra-crisis interventions and days 3-5 cover post incident crisis interventions and debrief.

NATIONAL STRATEGIES AND INITIATIVES

Legal imperative UK: The Health and Safety at Work Act of 1974 (HASAWA) allows the government to issue regulations, guidance and Approved Codes of Practice (ACOPs) for employers. These set out detailed responsibilities for the employer in every aspect of workplace health and safety.  One area that has been neglected is the psychosocial aspect of work. There is currently a need for suitable, evidence-based training for assessing, managing & mitigating psychosocial risk.

NON-BINDING TECHNICAL STANDARDS INCLUDING CODES OF CONDUCT & PROTOCOLS RECOGNISED BY GOVERNMENT ON PSCHOSOCIAL RISKS, PREVENTION & MANAGEMENT

The UK Health & Safety Executive (HSE) introduced the Management Standards in 2004 to help organisations understand what they need to do to assess and manage the risks to employee wellbeing posed by work-related stress.

Newly published BS ISO 45003:2021 Occupational health and safety management — Psychological health and safety at work — Guidelines for managing psychosocial risks.

Critical Incident Stress Debriefing (CISD – Mitchell model) is a specific, 7-phase, small group, supportive crisis intervention process. One of the many crisis interventions included under a Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM) program. The CISD process does not constitute any form of psychotherapy and it should never be utilized as a substitute for psychotherapy. It is a supportive, crisis-focused discussion of a traumatic event (which is frequently called a “critical incident”). The Critical Incident Stress Debriefing was developed exclusively for small, homogeneous groups who have encountered a powerful traumatic event. It aims at reduction of distress, a restoration of group cohesion and a demonstration of management commitment to the psychosocial health of team members.

COURSE DESCRIPTION

Post incident stress management (PISM) comprises a range of crisis intervention services that include:

• PRE-CRISIS MANAGEMENT (stress prevention and management) both individual and at organisational level
• INTRA-CRISIS MANAGEMENT (individual crisis counselling often referred to as psychological first aid)
• POST-CRISIS MANAGEMENT (group debriefing of a homogenous group (people who have been through the same critical incident together), and post-incident referral for 1-1 counselling for those still suffering from symptoms following a critical incident.
• Acute stress is a body’s normal reaction to an abnormal event.                
• Normalisation of the traumatised person/s experience, and validation of their experiences and responses is a critical goal of this programme as well as identifying those that require referral for further assistance.                                                      
• It is important for organisations to have systems in place to deal with critical incidents and the subsequent distress and disorder in order to create a healthy work ethos and environment during and after critical incidents.

The course is intended for two purposes:

• Where a major incident has occurred at work, e.g. multiple deaths, an assault, a suicide of a patient or a colleague, hostage-taking of a patient or colleagues, murder, witnessing or being involved in terrible accidents, etc
• Where a major incident has occurred in the locality, “beyond the scope of business-as-usual operations” e.g. infectious disease outbreak, an explosion at work, a terrorist act, a power outage, a natural disaster such as a flood, airplane crash, damaged building, rising flood water

TARGET AUDIENCE

• Health care professionals (doctors, nurses, occupational therapists, first responders – paramedics, fire fighters, police, etc)
• Mental health professionals (Social workers, Psychologists, Therapists, Welfare Officers, Wellness/Wellbeing Managers, EAP personnel, etc)
• Workplace Professionals (Managers, Human Resource personnel, Occupational Health & Safety personnel, Educators, etc).
• Religious personnel (Chaplains, Pastoral counsellors, Ministers, etc.)
• Organizations who desire to promote and ensure a fundamental and standardized knowledge base among its personnel who respond to crisis and trauma,
• Any other professionals involved in the care of individuals and groups following traumatic incidents.

The course runs from 09:30 – 16:30 daily.

To learn more please click here.

This course is delivered by our sister company Tidal Training Direct Ltd

Emergency First Aid at Work (EFAW)

First aid is defined as the help given to a sick or injured person until full medical treatment is available. The Health and Safety (First Aid) Regulations 1981 require an employer to provide suitable first aid cover in the workplace. Equally importantly, prompt attention and treatment can define the course of recovery for the casualty.

KEY POINTS

• Ofqual regulated Level 3 qualification
• Meets HSE requirements
• 6 Guided learning hours (Over 1 day)
• Valid for 3 years
• E-Certificate and course book included
• Assessed by a multi-choice questionnaire and practical observations
• Additional topics, such as Catastrophic Bleeding can be delivered on request

Certification

Upon completion delegates will be issued with an ofqual regulated EFAW certificate which is valid for 3 years.

Cost:  £99.00 

CALL TO BOOK

Level 3 Award in Emergency First Aid at Work (RQF) 1 Day Open Course to individual members of the public and professionals in their capacity as a nominated First Aider.

Full Course Content Here

Welcome to the “Excellence in Care Series”

We understand that a lot of businesses find it difficult to release all staff to attend training.  For this reason we are now running open courses at our training venue in Cheltenham to give organisations and individuals the opportunity to book onto a course with minimum disruption to the working day.

Our open courses are ideal for anyone working in the healthcare sector.  You can attend the courses as an individual or a number of your staff can be booked onto the course.  There are a maximum of 15 places available.

Training made easy for you

With a lot of new regulations coming into force, it is vital now more than ever that you are able to provide appropriate training for your workforce.

Supporting you with staff recruitment & retention

It’s a fact that quality training increases recruitment and aids retention.  A vital issue in your sector where good staff seem to be becoming ever more thin on the ground.  Our bespoke training packages are designed specifically to help you.

Helping you increased productivity

Well trained staff are able to carry out their duties more efficiently.  Organisations with a well trained workforce suffer less safeguard incidents.  Well trained staff work more efficiently and have more confidence in their job role.

Improving standards of care delivery

Peg Feed Training (Enteral Feeding)

This PEG Feeding course will familiarise learners with the methods and reason of PEG Feeding (Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy). It is an essential course for any staff who come into contact regularly with service users who utilise a PEG.

PEG feeding training raises awareness and familiarises individuals whilst ensuring staff have sufficient knowledge to work safely.

Course Content

• The purpose of PEG feeding
• Conditions which may require a PEG
• Indications and contraindications of PEG
• The procedures for feeding via PEG
• Recognising, dealing with and reporting complications
• The care and maintenance of enteral feeding tubes
• Understand the procedures for feeding and administering medications via enteral tubes
• Procedures for effective mouth care
• Documentation and record keeping
• Practical session

Learning Outcomes

On completion delegates will be able to demonstrate much improved awareness of PEG feeding including the causes, needs and requirements.

Certification

A certificate will be issued upon successful completion of course and is valid for 2 years.

Cost:  £48.00 per person which includes refreshments.

Welcome to the “Excellence in Care Series”

We understand that a lot of businesses find it difficult to release all staff to attend training.  For this reason we are now running open courses at our training venue in Cheltenham to give organisations and individuals the opportunity to book onto a course with minimum disruption to the working day.

Our open courses are ideal for anyone working in the healthcare sector.  You can attend the courses as an individual or a number of your staff can be booked onto the course.  There are a maximum of 15 places available.

Training made easy for you

With a lot of new regulations coming into force, it is vital now more than ever that you are able to provide appropriate training for your workforce.

Supporting you with staff recruitment & retention

It’s a fact that quality training increases recruitment and aids retention.  A vital issue in your sector where good staff seem to be becoming ever more thin on the ground.  Our bespoke training packages are designed specifically to help you.

Helping you increased productivity

Well trained staff are able to carry out their duties more efficiently.  Organisations with a well trained workforce suffer less safeguard incidents.  Well trained staff work more efficiently and have more confidence in their job role.

Improving standards of care delivery

Medication via Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy (PEG)

This Medication via Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy (PEG) course will familiarise delegates with the methods and reasons medication is administered via PEG. It is essential that delegates have completed PEG Feeding Training prior to attending this course.  Delegates who have completed Medications Training will be more confident in applying the correct concepts in administrating medication via PEG.  A vital course for any staff who come into contact regularly with patients/clients living with a PEG. 

The Medication via PEG course provides sufficient knowledge and skills for staff to work safely. 

Course Content

• The purpose of giving medication via PEG.
• Consent to administration.
• How the medicines should be prepared and administered safely via PEG.
• Monitoring adverse signs or symptoms following administration.
• Recognising, dealing with, and reporting complications.
• Documentation and record keeping.
• Practical session.

Learning Outcomes

On completion delegates will be able to demonstrate an improved understanding of administrating medication via PEG and be able to apply these skills in practice.

Certification

Upon completion delegates will be issued with a Medication Via Peg certificate of attendance which is valid for 2 years.

Cost:  £48.00 per person which includes refreshments.

Welcome to the “Excellence in Care Series”

We understand that a lot of businesses find it difficult to release all staff to attend training.  For this reason we are now running open courses at our training venue in Cheltenham to give organisations and individuals the opportunity to book onto a course with minimum disruption to the working day.

Our open courses are ideal for anyone working in the healthcare sector.  You can attend the courses as an individual or a number of your staff can be booked onto the course.  There are a maximum of 15 places available.

Training made easy for you

With a lot of new regulations coming into force, it is vital now more than ever that you are able to provide appropriate training for your workforce.

Supporting you with staff recruitment & retention

It’s a fact that quality training increases recruitment and aids retention.  A vital issue in your sector where good staff seem to be becoming ever more thin on the ground.  Our bespoke training packages are designed specifically to help you.

Helping you increased productivity

Well trained staff are able to carry out their duties more efficiently.  Organisations with a well trained workforce suffer less safeguard incidents.  Well trained staff work more efficiently and have more confidence in their job role.

Improving standards of care delivery

Moving & Handling of People Training

This Moving and Handling Training course is aimed at those staff who move or aid the movement of the service users in their care.  The training covers all aspects of correct & safe people handling including lifting aids.  Practical instruction will be included when the training is delivered on-site, allowing staff the use of the actual equipment that the they will be working with from day to day.

The course is focused on providing attendees with the knowledge to protect themselves and those in their care from injury, whilst carrying out moving & handling procedures.

Course Content

• Relevant legislation
• Risk assessment
• Potential injuries
• Anatomy of the spine
• Correct moving techniques
• Importance of good base movement
• Moving & handling aids including Hoists
• Importance of communication
• Practical use of equipment

Aims:

We will introduce and demonstrate the principles of approved Moving and Handling of People techniques and enable staff to achieve a 24 hour approach to back care.

Objectives:

We look at the causes of lower back pain and other related manual handling injuries.

We also look at human anatomy and discover how we can sometimes cause harm to ourselves during everyday work activities. Once we are able to understand this we can take care to prevent occurrences of manual handling related injuries.

Legislation and risk assessments are also covered with staff being given basic knowledge they require to undertake a simple risk assessments and understand their responsibilities in keeping themselves and the people in their care safe.

Course Assessment and Certification

The trainer will check understanding, involvement and the ability of all students throughout the duration of the course.  A certificate of attendance will be provided.

Cost:  £78.00 per person which includes refreshments.

This course is delivered by our sister company Tidal Training Direct Ltd

Emergency First Aid at Work (EFAW)

First aid is defined as the help given to a sick or injured person until full medical treatment is available. The Health and Safety (First Aid) Regulations 1981 require an employer to provide suitable first aid cover in the workplace. Equally importantly, prompt attention and treatment can define the course of recovery for the casualty.

KEY POINTS

• Ofqual regulated Level 3 qualification
• Meets HSE requirements
• 6 Guided learning hours (Over 1 day)
• Valid for 3 years
• E-Certificate and course book included
• Assessed by a multi-choice questionnaire and practical observations
• Additional topics, such as Catastrophic Bleeding can be delivered on request

Certification

Upon completion delegates will be issued with an ofqual regulated EFAW certificate which is valid for 3 years.

Cost:  £99.00 

CALL TO BOOK

Level 3 Award in Emergency First Aid at Work (RQF) 1 Day Open Course to individual members of the public and professionals in their capacity as a nominated First Aider.

Full Course Content Here

Welcome to the “Excellence in Care Series”

We understand that a lot of businesses find it difficult to release all staff to attend training.  For this reason we are now running open courses at our training venue in Cheltenham to give organisations and individuals the opportunity to book onto a course with minimum disruption to the working day.

Our open courses are ideal for anyone working in the healthcare sector.  You can attend the courses as an individual or a number of your staff can be booked onto the course.  There are a maximum of 15 places available.

Training made easy for you

With a lot of new regulations coming into force, it is vital now more than ever that you are able to provide appropriate training for your workforce.

Supporting you with staff recruitment & retention

It’s a fact that quality training increases recruitment and aids retention.  A vital issue in your sector where good staff seem to be becoming ever more thin on the ground.  Our bespoke training packages are designed specifically to help you.

Helping you increased productivity

Well trained staff are able to carry out their duties more efficiently.  Organisations with a well trained workforce suffer less safeguard incidents.  Well trained staff work more efficiently and have more confidence in their job role.

Improving standards of care delivery

Continence Awareness Training

Continence training enables learners to deliver effective and thorough support to individuals who have continence difficulties.  The course is aimed at support workers with no experience on continence and can also be attended by nurses who may like to update their knowledge. We will help attendees understand the causes, prevention and management of continence issues.

Course Content

• Factors which may cause an individual to be incontinent.
• How incontinence may affect an individual’s wellbeing.
• Causes of urinary incontinence.
• Causes of faecal incontinence.
• Causes of faecal incontinence.
• Methods which may be used to identify incontinence problems.
• Strategies to assist individual experiencing incontinence problems.
• Effects of incontinence & what to look out for.

Certification

A certificate will be issued upon successful completion of course and is valid for 3 years.

Cost:  £48.00 per person which includes refreshments.

Welcome to the “Excellence in Care Series”

We understand that a lot of businesses find it difficult to release all staff to attend training.  For this reason we are now running open courses at our training venue in Cheltenham to give organisations and individuals the opportunity to book onto a course with minimum disruption to the working day.

Our open courses are ideal for anyone working in the healthcare sector.  You can attend the courses as an individual or a number of your staff can be booked onto the course.  There are a maximum of 15 places available.

Training made easy for you

With a lot of new regulations coming into force, it is vital now more than ever that you are able to provide appropriate training for your workforce.

Supporting you with staff recruitment & retention

It’s a fact that quality training increases recruitment and aids retention.  A vital issue in your sector where good staff seem to be becoming ever more thin on the ground.  Our bespoke training packages are designed specifically to help you.

Helping you increased productivity

Well trained staff are able to carry out their duties more efficiently.  Organisations with a well trained workforce suffer less safeguard incidents.  Well trained staff work more efficiently and have more confidence in their job role.

Improving standards of care delivery

Catheter Care Training

Good catheter care involves good hygiene, observation, infection control, monitoring well-being and prevention of issues associated with catheterisation. This Catheter Care training covers all these issues to maximise the benefits and minimise the issues of catheterisation for your patient/client group.

By the end of the course attendees will be familiar with reasons for catheterisation, the equipment required and the theory of catheter removal.

Course Content

•        Why Catheterise?
•        Male & Female anatomy and physiology
•        The advantages and risks associated with catheterisation
•        Reducing the risk of infection
•        Infection prevention and control procedures
•        Selection of catheter drainage options.
•        Catheter attachment methods
•       Maintaining a closed draining system
•        Obtaining urine specimens
•        Removal of the catheter (theory)
•        Positioning of the catheter (post procedure)

Certification

A certificate will be issued upon successful completion of course and is valid for 2 years.

Cost:  £48.00 per person which includes refreshments.

Welcome to the “Excellence in Care Series”

We understand that a lot of businesses find it difficult to release all staff to attend training.  For this reason we are now running open courses at our training venue in Cheltenham to give organisations and individuals the opportunity to book onto a course with minimum disruption to the working day.

Our open courses are ideal for anyone working in the healthcare sector.  You can attend the courses as an individual or a number of your staff can be booked onto the course.  There are a maximum of 15 places available.

Training made easy for you

With a lot of new regulations coming into force, it is vital now more than ever that you are able to provide appropriate training for your workforce.

Supporting you with staff recruitment & retention

It’s a fact that quality training increases recruitment and aids retention.  A vital issue in your sector where good staff seem to be becoming ever more thin on the ground.  Our bespoke training packages are designed specifically to help you.

Helping you increased productivity

Well trained staff are able to carry out their duties more efficiently.  Organisations with a well trained workforce suffer less safeguard incidents.  Well trained staff work more efficiently and have more confidence in their job role.

Improving standards of care delivery

Pressure Area Care and Tissue Viability Training

This Pressure Area Care Training is designed for RGN’s and support workers who may need to update their knowledge and skills on the topics of pressure area care and prevention. Pressure ulcers occur when a localised area of skin and underlying tissue becomes damaged due to continual pressure, friction, or shear.

Course Content

• What is pressure area care and tissue viability
• Pressure Ulcer Prevention
• Subject knowledge assessment
• Professional, legal & ethical issues of wound management
• Wound etiology
• Wound Categories
• Wound types
• Wound phases / healing
• Factors affecting healing
• Waterlow Pressure Area Risk Assessment Chart

The primary aim of this tool is to assist you to assess risk of a patient/client developing a pressure ulcer. We use this together with your clinical judgement.

The Waterlow consists of seven items: build/weight, height, visual assessment of the skin, sex/age, continence, mobility, and appetite, and special risk factors, divided into tissue malnutrition, neurological deficit, major surgery/trauma, and medication.

• Dressing types & selection
• Summary & course evaluation

Learning Outcomes

On completion delegates will be able to demonstrate much improved awareness of pressure ulcers including the causes, needs and requirements.

Certification

A certificate will be issued upon successful completion of course and is valid for 2 years.

People who booked this course also booked Woundcare Management Training for their nursing staff.

Cost:  £48.00 per person which includes refreshments.

Welcome to the “Excellence in Care Series”

We understand that a lot of businesses find it difficult to release all staff to attend training.  For this reason we are now running open courses at our training venue in Cheltenham to give organisations and individuals the opportunity to book onto a course with minimum disruption to the working day.

Our open courses are ideal for anyone working in the healthcare sector.  You can attend the courses as an individual or a number of your staff can be booked onto the course.  There are a maximum of 15 places available.

Training made easy for you

With a lot of new regulations coming into force, it is vital now more than ever that you are able to provide appropriate training for your workforce.

Supporting you with staff recruitment & retention

It’s a fact that quality training increases recruitment and aids retention.  A vital issue in your sector where good staff seem to be becoming ever more thin on the ground.  Our bespoke training packages are designed specifically to help you.

Helping you increased productivity

Well trained staff are able to carry out their duties more efficiently.  Organisations with a well trained workforce suffer less safeguard incidents.  Well trained staff work more efficiently and have more confidence in their job role.

Improving standards of care delivery

Woundcare Management Training

This Woundcare Management training is specifically designed for nurses involved in caring for patients and service users with chronic and acute wounds. By the end of this course each attendee will have a greater appreciation of wound types and the appropriate techniques to manage them effectively.

Course Content

• Understand the various stages of wound healing and wound management
• Identify the different cells involved in the stages of wound healing
• Different categories of wound healing
• The main principles of wound healing
• Different types of wound – chronic / acute
• The four main principles of wound management
         TIME (Tissue, Infection, Moisture, Edge)
• Selecting appropriate dressings
• Dressing types

Certification

A certificate will be issued upon successful completion of course and is valid for 2 years.

People who booked this course also booked Pressure Area Care and Tissue Viability Training for their nursing staff.

Cost:  £48.00 per person which includes refreshments.

5 Days: 17th, 18th February 2022 & 2nd, 3rd, 4th March 2022

Post Critical Incident Stress Debrief Facilitator training is now being delivered via live webinar as well as onsite face to face training to organisations across the United Kingdom, from NHS Trusts to Corporates to Charities. This training ensures the safeguarding and support of employees facing ongoing or extremely stressful, traumatic or critical incidents. Days 1 & 2 cover pre & intra-crisis interventions and days 3-5 cover post incident crisis interventions and debrief.

NATIONAL STRATEGIES AND INITIATIVES

Legal imperative UK: The Health and Safety at Work Act of 1974 (HASAWA) allows the government to issue regulations, guidance and Approved Codes of Practice (ACOPs) for employers. These set out detailed responsibilities for the employer in every aspect of workplace health and safety.  One area that has been neglected is the psychosocial aspect of work. There is currently a need for suitable, evidence-based training for assessing, managing & mitigating psychosocial risk.

NON-BINDING TECHNICAL STANDARDS INCLUDING CODES OF CONDUCT & PROTOCOLS RECOGNISED BY GOVERNMENT ON PSCHOSOCIAL RISKS, PREVENTION & MANAGEMENT

The UK Health & Safety Executive (HSE) introduced the Management Standards in 2004 to help organisations understand what they need to do to assess and manage the risks to employee wellbeing posed by work-related stress.

Newly published BS ISO 45003:2021 Occupational health and safety management — Psychological health and safety at work — Guidelines for managing psychosocial risks.

Critical Incident Stress Debriefing (CISD – Mitchell model) is a specific, 7-phase, small group, supportive crisis intervention process. One of the many crisis interventions included under a Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM) program. The CISD process does not constitute any form of psychotherapy and it should never be utilized as a substitute for psychotherapy. It is a supportive, crisis-focused discussion of a traumatic event (which is frequently called a “critical incident”). The Critical Incident Stress Debriefing was developed exclusively for small, homogeneous groups who have encountered a powerful traumatic event. It aims at reduction of distress, a restoration of group cohesion and a demonstration of management commitment to the psychosocial health of team members.

COURSE DESCRIPTION

Post incident stress management (PISM) comprises a range of crisis intervention services that include:

• PRE-CRISIS MANAGEMENT (stress prevention and management) both individual and at organisational level
• INTRA-CRISIS MANAGEMENT (individual crisis counselling often referred to as psychological first aid)
• POST-CRISIS MANAGEMENT (group debriefing of a homogenous group (people who have been through the same critical incident together), and post-incident referral for 1-1 counselling for those still suffering from symptoms following a critical incident.
• Acute stress is a body’s normal reaction to an abnormal event.                
• Normalisation of the traumatised person/s experience, and validation of their experiences and responses is a critical goal of this programme as well as identifying those that require referral for further assistance.                                                      
• It is important for organisations to have systems in place to deal with critical incidents and the subsequent distress and disorder in order to create a healthy work ethos and environment during and after critical incidents.

The course is intended for two purposes:

• Where a major incident has occurred at work, e.g. multiple deaths, an assault, a suicide of a patient or a colleague, hostage-taking of a patient or colleagues, murder, witnessing or being involved in terrible accidents, etc
• Where a major incident has occurred in the locality, “beyond the scope of business-as-usual operations” e.g. infectious disease outbreak, an explosion at work, a terrorist act, a power outage, a natural disaster such as a flood, airplane crash, damaged building, rising flood water

TARGET AUDIENCE

• Health care professionals (doctors, nurses, occupational therapists, first responders – paramedics, fire fighters, police, etc)
• Mental health professionals (Social workers, Psychologists, Therapists, Welfare Officers, Wellness/Wellbeing Managers, EAP personnel, etc)
• Workplace Professionals (Managers, Human Resource personnel, Occupational Health & Safety personnel, Educators, etc).
• Religious personnel (Chaplains, Pastoral counsellors, Ministers, etc.)
• Organizations who desire to promote and ensure a fundamental and standardized knowledge base among its personnel who respond to crisis and trauma,
• Any other professionals involved in the care of individuals and groups following traumatic incidents.

The course runs from 09:30 – 16:30 daily.

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