We provide a range of training courses and workshops. Please contact us if you would like a copy of our 2018 Training Calendar.
Basic Counselling Skills
An interactive course aimed at acquiring an understanding and awareness of the benefits of using basic counselling skills to improve communication.
Duration: 1 day
Carers Awareness Training
Aimed at GPs, care staff, social workers and other professionals this course considers the impact of caring on family members.
Too often Family Carers get overlooked and are not involved in the care plan of the person they care for. This can result in Carers reaching crisis point, or a care package beaking down with the Carer unable to continue providing care.
This course will enable professionals to address family care needs when delivering a service to the cared for, offering holistic support.
Duration: 1 day
Dementia Care and Carers
This course explores the different types of dementia and how it affects the person. Carers learn how to better cope with difficult situations and how to care for a person with dementia who has lost cognitive communications skills. Carers also explore end of life care and support networks available to them.
Duration: 1 day
Mental Health Awareness Training
This course aims to provide an awareness of what determines Mental Health Distress and an understanding of how the mental health system within our local community is set up. It also explores the experience of living with mental illness.
Duration: 1 day
Stress and Anger Management
This training course helps to identify the psychological symptoms of stress and how to develop strategies that enable us to better cope with stress.
Duration: 1 day
Lifting and Handling
Many Carers have long term problems with their backs through inappropriate lifting of their cared for. This training demonstrates how to lift a person accurately taking the strain from the back and how to lift frail people without hurting them.
Duration: 1 day
Preparing for the Future
This training explores:
Living wills
Lasting power of attorney
Advanced directives
Wishes of the person and their family
Caring at end of life
Support networks for families
Duration: 1 day
First Aid
This offers Carers the chance to deal with common first aid, signs to look out for if a person is suffering a Stroke, Heart attack or epilepsy and how to deal with choking and deliver life saving resuscitation.
Duration: 1 day