Awareness Sessions

Asthma Awareness

Duration: ½ day course

Staff Groups: This course is aimed at all staff and volunteers working in health and social care who may support individuals with asthma.

Course Overview: This course will explore what we mean when we say someone has asthma.

 Course Aims:

  • To enable participants to gain a greater insight into the cause and effects of asthma
  • To develop a deeper understanding of how an individual with asthma might be supported within their community

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Anaphylaxis

Duration: ½ day course

Staff Groups: This course is aimed at all staff and volunteers working in health and social care who may support individuals with Anaphylaxis.

Course Overview: This course covers the management of anaphylaxis and the use of auto-injectors for the initial treatment of anaphylaxis.

Course Aims:

  • To provide attendees with the knowledge and skills to recognise the signs and symptoms of anaphylaxis and to be able to support individuals with an auto-injector
  • To provide practice in the use of auto-injectors and basic life support should this be needed

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Autism Awareness

Duration: ½ day course

Staff Groups: This course is aimed at all staff and volunteers working in health and social care who may support individuals who are on the Autistic Spectrum.

Course Overview: This course explores Autism and the current body of thinking and knowledge about Autistic Spectrum Disorders.

Course Aims:

  • How ASD is displayed and why
  • Explore the range of abilities found within ASD
  • Provide information, practical strategies and promote a positive understanding to enable people to work more effectively with people with ASD

We also offer a distance learning workbook in this subject
We also offer virtual training via Zoom in this subject

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Cerebral Palsy Awareness

Duration: ½ day course

Staff Groups: This course is aimed at all staff and volunteers working in health and social care who may support individuals with Cerebral Palsy.

Course Overview: This course explores Cerebral Palsy. Cerebral Palsy is caused by traumatic injury to the developing brain, including parts of the brain responsible for motor control, coordination and balance. The level of disability that arises as a result of this trauma may have a significant impact on an individuals ability to grow and develop, and to maintain the activities of daily living.

Course Aims:

  • To enable participants to gain a greater insight into the cause and effects of the condition
  • To develop a deeper understanding of how an individual with Cerebral Palsy might be encouraged and supported within their community

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Continence Awareness and Promotion

Duration: ½ day course

Staff Groups: This course is aimed at all staff and volunteers working in health and social care who may support individuals with continence issues.

Course Overview: This course is developed for care staff and volunteers to raise awareness of the causes of incontinence, the use of continence aids and promotion of good practice.

Course Aims:

  • To discuss types of incontinence
  • To describe the urinary system
  • Understand stress incontinence
  • Recognise treatments for incontinence
  • Identify continence management

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Coronavirus (COVID-19) Awareness

Duration: 2 hour course

Staff Groups: This course is aimed at all staff and volunteers working in health and social care.

Course Overview: Drawing upon their existing knowledge of infection prevention and control this course will enable participants to develop an understanding of how the health and social care sector is supporting the NHS during the UK’s response to the COVID -19 pandemic and the measures that are being taken to limit the spread of the coronavirus within our community.

Course Aims:

  • Outline the aetiology and incidence of covid-19 and its impact on the health of the individual
  • Outline the special measures being taken within the sector to limit the spread of the coronavirus - including methods of reporting, testing, and infection prevention and control
  • Outline the Discharge to Assess (D2A) strategy currently being used by the NHS and the role of the Care Home in this approach.
  • Discuss in detail what is meant by social isolation, shielding, and patient/staff cohorting and describe how these measures assist in preventing the spread of the coronavirus
  • Discuss how care practises such as: handwashing, respiratory hygiene, wearing of PPE, methods of cleansing and disinfection are being used to control the spread of the coronavirus

We also offer a distance learning workbook in this subject
We also offer virtual training via Zoom in this subject

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Dementia Awareness

Duration: ½ day course

Staff Groups: This course is aimed at all staff and volunteers working in health and social care who may support indviduals with Dementia.

Course Overview: This course will explore what we mean when we say someone has dementia. What are the differences between memory losses of old age and dementia? What is it like to have dementia?  The course will challenge you to think more about how we can best care for and support people with dementia. How can we enable people to continue to use their remaining skills? What can we do if someone with dementia has to go into hospital or a care home?

Course Aims:

  • What do we mean by dementia?
  • What are the most common causes of dementia
  • The individuality of experience of dementia
  • Understanding behaviour and emotional distress
  • Cultural differences in dementia and communicating with people with dementia
  • Caring for people with dementia as both formal and informal Carer

We also offer a distance learning workbook in this subject
We also offer virtual training via Zoom in this subject

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Diabetes Awareness

Duration: ½ day course

Staff Groups: This course is aimed at all staff and volunteers working in health and social care who may support individulas with Diabetes.

Course Overview: This course explores ‘What is diabetes’ and the basic anatomy and physiology of what happens to cause diabetes.

Course Aims:

• How big the problem is

• What is diabetes

• Types of diabetes

• Common indicators of diabetes

• Treatment of diabetes

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Drug & Alcohol Awareness

Duration: Full day course

Staff Groups: This course is aimed at all staff working in health and social care who support individuals with drug and alcohol misuse issues.

Course Overview: This course is developed for care staff and volunteers to raise awareness of drug and alcohol misuse issues. To adequately inform and enable them to work effectively with service users with dependencies.

Course Aims:

  • Discuss substance misuse, and addiction
  • Examine how compulsive misuse of substances can psychologically harm the service user including legal and illegal substances
  • Further the learners understanding of both psychological and physical dependency and all other commonalities associated with addictions

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Dysphagia Awareness

Duration: ½ day course

Staff Groups: This course is aimed at all staff and volunteers working in health and social care who may support individuals with Dysphagia.

Course Overview: This course provides attendees with the knowledge required to assess and care for service users with dysphagia.

Course Aims:

  • To provide knowledge of what dysphagia is and how it is assessed
  • To provide knowledge to underpin the care of patients with dysphagia

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End of Life Care

Duration: ½ day course

Staff Groups: This course is aimed at all staff and volunteers working in health and social care.

Course Overview: Social care is about supporting people in their daily lives with the choices they make. For some people that increasingly includes preparing for their death. This is a fact that every front line social care worker knows intuitively, but they may not always have the confidence to engage with the issues it raises.  This course will explore ways to support and enhance the quality of care provided to the individual approaching end of life, their families and as their carers.

Course Aims:

  • To look at providing high quality end of life care
  • Terminology in End of Life Care
  • Awareness of a care worker’s role and response
  • Changes in conditions and dealing with signs and symptoms
  • Accessing support and multi-agency working
  • Dealing with difficult situations and communication
  • Recognising the final stages of dying

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Epilepsy Awareness

Duration: ½ day course

Staff Groups: This course is aimed at all staff and volunteers working in health and social care who may support individuals with Epilepsy.

Course Overview: To review the causes and effects and identify signs and symptoms of Epilepsy. It will also consider the risk factors and lifestyle issues associated with Epilepsy and plan effective levels of care for people.

Course Aims:

  • Participants will review their knowledge of Epilepsy and improve their practice and quality of care as a result.

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Learning Disability Awareness

Duration: ½ day course

Staff Groups: This course is aimed at all staff and volunteers working in health and social care who support individuals with a learning disability.

Course Overview: The session will provide a broad overview of learning disabilities and greater understanding of the issues surrounding these disabilities. It aims to increase the confidence of staff, with practical advice and information on best practice for communicating with individuals with learning disabilities and their Carers. The session will also cover disability legislation, barriers to inclusion within the community and why language matters.

Course Aims:

  • Explore the meaning of the term Learning Disability
  • Examine some of the causes of Learning Disability
  • Look at some of the specific physical and mental health needs of people with a Learning Disability
  • Review of current social and legal context affecting ways of working with a Learning Disability

We also offer a distance learning workbook in this subject
We also offer virtual training via Zoom in this subject

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Mental Health and Mental Illness Awareness

Duration: Full day course

Staff Groups: This course is aimed at all staff and volunteers working in health and social care who support individuals with a Mental Health issue.

Course Overview: To provide attendees with knowledge and understanding of both mental health and mental illness.

Course Aims:

• List a number of mental health disorders and their effects

• Describe ways of supporting an individual’s positive mental health

• Describe causes of mental illnesses

• Describe the basics of the Mental Health Act

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Parkinson’s Disease Awareness

Duration: ½ day course

Staff Groups: This course is aimed at all staff and volunteers working in health and social care who may support individuals living with Parkinson’s Disease.

Course Overview: This course explores Parkinson’s Disease and the current body of thinking and knowledge about Parkinson’s Disease. To enable staff to better care for peoples with Parkinson’s Disease.

Course Aims:

  • Have an increased understanding of Parkinson’s and its many symptoms
  • Be better equipped to be able to help somebody with Parkinson’s to manage their condition
  • Able to identify care plan actions for your service users with Parkinson’s
  • Understand the importance of people getting their Parkinson’s medication on time and the symptoms if medication is early or late
  • Know where to access resources and further education
  • Have the knowledge and strategies to help you better care for a service user with Parkinson’s

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Respiratory Need Use of a Nebuliser

Duration: ½ day course

Staff Groups: This course is aimed at all staff and volunteers working in health and social care.

Course Overview: This course explores the Respiratory Need Use of a Nebuliser.

Course Aims:

• Describe why medicines may need to be administered by a nebuliser

• Explain how a nebuliser works

• Identify examples of drugs that are commonly administered by nebulised solution

• Describe how to prepare a nebuliser for use

• Practical, where clients nebuliser is available

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Self Harm & Suicide

Duration: ½ day course

Staff Groups: This course is aimed at all staff and volunteers working in health and social care.

Course Overview: This course looks at the potential causes and indicators of ‘Self Harm’ and will explore the requirements of the Care Act 2014 and MCA 2005 in relation to self harm.

Course Aims:

  • Know what are self harm behaviours
  • How does self injuries behaviour start
  • What causes self harm
  • Communicating how common is self harm? Non- verbal people
  • Poor executive functioning
  • Stimuli Balance
  • Understand severe and persistent self harm
  • Stages of development
  • Protection planning

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Self Neglect

Duration: ½ day course

Staff Groups: This course is aimed at all staff and volunteers working in health and social care.

Course Overview: This course looks at the potential causes and indicators of ‘Self Neglect’ and will explore the requirements of the Care Act 2014 and MCA 2005 in relation to self neglect.

Course Aims:

  • An overview of self neglect
  • The interface between self harm and safeguarding adults
  • How best to respond to self neglect as outlined in the Care Act 2014 and the MCA Act 2005 and other safeguarding procedures
  • How to embed good practice with examples of case studies

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Sepsis Awareness

Duration: ½ day course

Staff Groups: This course is aimed at all staff and volunteers working in health and social care who may support individuals with Sepsis.

Course Overview: This course provides the knowledge required to increase awareness of sepsis and in turn increase vigilance of sepsis in health and social care settings.

Course Aims:

  • To discuss the signs, symptoms and indicators for sepsis
  • To discuss those at risk and how risk can be minimised
  • Through the use of case studies, identify actions which should be taken in a variety of settings should sepsis be suspected

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Stroke Awareness

Duration: ½ day course

Staff Groups: This course is aimed at all staff and volunteers working in health and social care who may support individuals who have had a Stroke.

Course Overview: This course provides both underpinning knowledge of stroke, causes and symptoms and also practical techniques to deliver person centred support for someone who has experienced a stroke.

Course Aims:

  • Stroke overview, myths and facts
  • To discuss the types and forms of stroke
  • To discuss signs, symptoms and effects of stroke
  • How to recognise a stoke
  • How to support someone who has experienced a stroke
  • How to achieve person centred stroke care

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Understanding Acquired Brain Injuries

Duration: Full day course

Staff Groups: This course is aimed at all staff and volunteers working in health and social care who may support individuals with acquired brain injuries.

Course Overview: This course provides both underpinning knowledge of acquired brain injuries, causes and symptoms, and practical techniques to deliver person centred support for someone who has experienced a brain injury.

Course Aims:

  • Ensure learners understand Acquired Brain Injury (ABI) can affect any aspect of someone's functioning
  • Mechanisms, classifications and causes of brain injury
  • To give learners a solid foundation knowledge of brain injury and its effects
  • Examine normal anatomy and physiology of the brain in a simple, clear, easy to understand way
  • Demonstrate understanding of possible consequences of ABI
  • Discuss structures of damaged/ injured brain'

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Understanding Eating Disorders

Duration: ½ day course

Staff Groups: This course is aimed at all staff and volunteers working in health and social care who may support individuals with eating disorders.

Course Overview: This course will focus on understanding and supporting some of the 700,000 people in the UK affected by different types of eating disorders.

Course Aims:

  • What are eating disorders
  • Examine and explain the most common eating disorders.
  • When does an eating disorders become a mental health issue
  • Substance abuse and eating disorders
  • Explain the possible effects of eating disorders
  • Warning signs and what to look out for
  • Discuss treatments currently available

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Wheelchair Training

Duration: ½ day course

Staff Groups: This course is aimed at all staff and volunteers working in health and social care who may support individuals with operating a wheelchair.

Course Overview: This course will explore wheelchair safety.

Course Aims:

  • To ensure staff are safe operating a wheelchair
  • To increase the skill and confidence levels of care/support staff
  • To ensure that service users are less vulnerable through safe practices

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