The Joint Training Team have sent through details of spaces on their September courses. Contact details and application form at the bottom of the page.
- 12th Sept 2013 Professional Boundaries – 09:30 – 1:00
- 12-13th Sept 2013 Counselling Skills for the Caring Professions 2 day course 09:30 – 4:30 both days
- 16th Sept 2013 Bereavement – 09:30 – 4:00
- 18-19 Sept 2013 Attachment Theory and Concepts 2 day course 09:30 – 4:30 both days
- 19 Sept 2013 Dysphagia Awareness: 9.30am – 1:00
- 19 Sept 2013 Personality Disorder 1:30 – 4:30
- 25 Sept 2013 Domestic Abuse Awareness – 09:30 – 4:30
- 26 Sept 2013 Asperger’s Syndrome Awareness 09:30 – 4:00
- 10-11 Oct 2013 Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST) 2 day course
Professional Boundaries in Social Care & Health Settings
Aims: To develop an understanding of what professional boundaries are and how to put them into practice when supporting service users and patients.
Objectives: To enable you to:-
- Define what professional boundaries are
- Explain why it is important to have professional boundaries
- Identify related policy and guidance
- Analyse current practice and consider ways of developing and improving your performance
Facilitator: Karen Littleford, Shropshire Partners in Care
Target: Workers in Health, Housing and Care Settings with direct contact with Service Users/Patients
Cost band: A. £20 B. (Shrop) £25 B. (T&W) £30 C. £60
| Professional Boundaries | ||
| Date | Time | Location |
| 12 Sep 2013 | 09:30-13:00 | Shrewsbury – Training & Dev Centre |
Counselling Skills for the Caring Professions
Aims to: To examine and practise the skills needed to use counselling as an addition to an established caring profession
Objectives
- To examine the three stage model of counselling
- To practise counselling skills needed at each stage
- To consider own self-awareness, assumptions and prejudices
- To recognise the importance of support and supervision
Facilitator: Sheila Cowie, Counselling and Training Services
Target: Care co-ordinators, registered workers and workers in the independent, voluntary or housing sectors who work therapeutically with service users
Cost band: A. £80 B. (Shrop) £90 B. (T&W) £110 C. £200
| Counselling Skills for the Caring Professions (2 days) | ||
| Date | Time | Location |
| 12 & 13 Sep 2013 | 09:30-16:30 both days | Shrewsbury – Barnabas Centre |
Bereavement Workshop
Aims to: Provide a basic theoretical framework to the grief process and consider key factors in supporting the bereaved person and the needs of the family carer
Objectives: By the end of the workshop you will be able to:
- Explain the implications of grief and loss and recognise the attachment issues connected with loss
- Recognise your own responses to death and bereavement
- Describe the process of mourning and the different responses to grief
- Demonstrate listening and helping skills and have an understanding of the factors which can complicate the grieving process
- Recognise and acknowledge the need for your own supervision and support
Facilitator: Sheila Cowie, Counselling and Training Services Target: All frontline workers in Health, Housing and Social Care settings
♦ N.B. You are advised not to attend if you have experienced a personal bereavement in the last 12 months
Cost band: A. £40 B. (Shrop) £45 B. (T&W) £55 C. £100
| Bereavement Workshop | ||
| Date | Time | Location |
| 16 Sep 2013 | 09:30-16:00 | Shrewsbury – Wildlife Trust |
Attachment (2 days)
Aims to:
- Introduce the basic concepts of attachment theory and gain understanding of secure & insecure attachment patterns
- Examine the ways in which early attachments can be the principal indicators of the subsequent relationships we make throughout life both at work and in our personal lives
- Understand how adult relationships are formed and maintained and explore the ways in which early experience might sabotage those relationships
By the end of the course learners will have:-
- Been introduced to Bowlby’s Attachment Theory and attachment behaviour
- Examined Erikson’s 8 stages of Psychosocial Development and life stages.
- Understood the concept of the Secure Base and the systems around it
- Learned and practised skills which they can then use in their place of work
Facilitator: Shiela Cowie, Counselling and Training Services
Target: Healthcare Professionals, Social Workers, Social Care Professionals, Counsellors and Youth Workers from Statutory, Independent and Voluntary Sector Health & Social Care
Cost band: A. £80 B. (Shrop) £90 B. (T&W) £110 C. £200
| Attachment (2 days) | ||
| Date | Time | Location |
| 18 & 19 Sept 13 | 09:30-16:30 | Shrewsbury – Wildlife Trust |
Dysphagia Awareness
Aims: To improve responses to the needs of individuals with swallowing difficulties
Objectives:-
- To recognise the signs of Dysphagia and understand the factors that may affect eating, drinking, swallowing and posture
- To provide an understanding of respiration, aspiration, reflux, choking, texture modification and high risk foods
- To know the role of carers supporting people with Dysphagia in relation to care plans
- To know how to make a referral to Speech and Language Therapy
Facilitator: Katie May, Speech and Language Therapy, SSSFT
Target: Direct care staff and managers working with adults with learning disabilities, and older people.
Cost band: A. £20 B. £25 C. £60
| Dysphagia Awareness | ||
| Date | Time | Location |
| 19 Sep 2013 | 09:30–13:00 | Shrewsbury – Wildlife Trust |
Personality Disorder
Aims to:
Enable you to understand what is meant by the term ‘Personality Disorder’ and to identify ways in which you can work with those who are diagnosed with Personality Disorder
Objectives: By the end of the session you will be able to:-
- Describe the definitions and clusters used in the diagnosis of Personality Disorder
- Understand the service users’ perspective
- Use approaches and models that can be of help
Facilitator: Josie Brett-Summors or Pauline Curran, Staff Development Officers MH, Joint Training
Target: Mental Health Services staff, Voluntary & Independent Sectors who provide services to Mental Health Service Users, Mental Health Service Users and Family Carers
Cost band: A. £20 B. (Shrop) £25 B. (T&W) £30 C. £60
| Personality Disorder | ||
| Date | Time | Location |
| 19 Sep 2013 | 13:30-16:30 | Shrewsbury – Barnabas Centre |
Domestic Abuse Awareness
Aims to: Raise awareness of the issues involved in respect of domestic abuse and appropriate responses.
Objectives: To provide you with:-
- A definition as to what “Domestic Abuse” is
- Statistics
- An understanding of attitudes towards Domestic Abuse
- Ways of identifying abuse indicators
- An understanding of why women don’t leave
- An awareness of support agencies, their roles and how to access them
Facilitators: Jo Berry – Community Safety, Pauline Curran, Josie Brett-Summors, Elizabeth Evans – Joint Training
Target: Workers within Shropshire in Health, Police, Housing, Independent, Voluntary and Social Care Settings particularly those in joint teams or regularly working with other agencies
Cost band: A. £0* B. (Shrop) £0* B. (T&W) £55 C. £100
*This training is funded by Safer Shropshire Partnership for Shropshire based establishments
| Domestic Abuse Awareness | ||
| Date | Time | Location |
| 25 Sep 2013 | 09:30-16:30 | Shrewsbury – Barnabas Centre |
Asperger’s Syndrome
Aims to: Explore some of the main conditions of Asperger’s syndrome (and high functioning autism) and their effects
Objectives:
- To give insight into life with Asperger’s syndrome or high functioning autism
- To offer simple, practical strategies to use when communicating or working with people with these conditions
Facilitators: Sara Heath ACE, Cert Ed, MEd. Lead Trainer in Asperger’s Awareness, Eric Heath, Lived Experience Trainer, Autonomy Support Group, Darren Forster, Lived Experience Trainer, Autonomy Support Group
Target: Mental Health staff and agencies (including housing) who work with people with Asperger’s syndrome or high functioning autism
Cost band: A. £40 B. (Shrop) £45 B. (T&W) £55 C. £100
| Asperger’s Syndrome | ||
| Date | Time | Location |
| 26 Sep 2013 | 09:30-16:00 | Shrewsbury – Wildlife Trust |
Mental Health – Suicide Intervention
2 days
Aims: ASIST – Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training. This course offers in depth practical training to front line workers, community volunteers and family carers to enable them to recognise someone who is suicidal and give them the skills and confidence to intervene.
This course may not be suitable for someone who has been recently bereaved by suicide or who is currently feeling suicidal.
Objectives:
- Recognise calls for help
- Reach out and offer support
- Assess the risk of suicide
- Apply a suicide intervention model
- Link people with community resources
Facilitators: Experienced ASIST trainer from Positive Choices MIND Cymru.
Target: ASIST is suitable for anyone whether they work in specialist services, in frontline services or are concerned community members
Cost band: A. £80 B. (Shrop) £90 B. (T&W) £110 C. £200
Free of charge to (Shropshire only, sorry not T&W)) unpaid volunteers, service users and family carers & Shropshire Council Assessment and Eligibility workers
| Suicide Intervention 2 days | ||
| Date | Time | Location |
| 10&11 Oct 2013 | 09:00-16:30 Day 109:30-16:30 Day 2 | Shrewsbury – Barnabas Centre |
Contact:
Joint Training Team/Social Care & Health Training
Learning, Employment and Training Service
Shropshire Council
Bourne House, Radbrook, Shrewsbury, SY3 9BL
01743 254731
For more information please see link below to the Joint Training webpage:
www.shropshire.gov.uk/jointtraining
Download Application Form Here: application-form-joint-training