Trauma Awareness and Recovery - Online

Venue
Microsoft TEAMS, Virtual training
venue
Event Tutors
Course Tutor
tutors
Admin Contact
. Public Health Training (publichealthtraining@southglos.gov.uk)
Target Audience
CAH Staff / Managers working within Public Health / Social Care Staff / Staff Working in ICS / Staff working within Public Health
target audience
Event Types
Online Course, Course (daytime)
Course categories
Adult Social Care / Change / Children and Young People / Covid-19 Support / Leadership and Management / Public Health & Wellbeing
Adult Social Care subcategories
Adult Mental Health / Autism / Community Care Inform Adults / General Adult Social Care / Learning Difficulties / Older People / Safeguarding Adult
Change subcategories
Managing Change / Personal Resilience / Support Organisational Change
Children and Young People subcategories
Children's Social Care / Early Years / Mental Health / Safeguarding Children / Sexual Health and Relationships / Single Assessment Framework (Early Help)
Covid-19 Support subcategories
Frontline Workers / Legislation Changes / Managing Under Covid-19 / Online Wellbeing Courses / Supporting Others' Wellbeing / Wellbeing coaching / Wellbeing and mental health webinars / Working remotely webinars
Leadership and Management subcategories
Managing People / Managing Services / New To Management / Qualifications and Accredited Courses / Recruitment and Selection
Public Health & Wellbeing subcategories
Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) / Adult Obesity / Ageing Well / Breakthrough Mentoring / Childhood Obesity / Childhood Poverty / Children and Young People's Mental Health / Drugs and Alcohol / Early Years and School Health / Emergency Planning / Food / Getting Active / Health Protection / Mental Health and Emotional Wellbeing / NHS Health Check / Relationships and Sexual Health / Smokefree
Event description
This is an online course, if you prefer face to face training we have a session on 31st January 2024 please book onto that date.

Our trauma-informed partner Dignifi will be delivering this training.The People Dept is under-going a radical and long-lasting transformation to become trauma informed and responsive to both the people who work for us, and those in South Glos who are served by us.

The morning session on Trauma Awareness course will cover:
  • Different types of trauma and how they impact on emotional regulation and ability to manage stress.
  • How to develop awareness of trauma and its impacts upon a person’s perceptions, thinking and behaviour.
  • Trauma and the body Fight, Flight and Freeze responses and how to manage activations.
  • Trauma and links to addiction.

In the afternoon session the course will explore strategies for Trauma Recovery including;
  • Supporting staff to understand their own engagement style and reflect on how to adapt to a trauma responsive approach.
  • Feel equipped to assess and intervene if someone is displaying symptoms of trauma.
  • Are equipped to manage difficult situations using trauma responsive strategies.
  • Are supported to manage the issues they face at work and balance this with their own self-care needs

The content of the training covers trauma and adversity and can be triggering. If you think this content might trigger you ahead of the day, please let us know at Trauma-informed@southglos.gov.uk and/or talk to your Line Manager. Delegates will not be expected to share personal experiences as part of this training.

Delegates are encouraged to clear the decks as much as they can for the evening after the training and to have a named person who they can call on should they need to talk anything through that may come up on the day.
Learning outcomes
Together, these two sessions of training will ensure that participants:
1. Are better able to understand how trauma and adversity affect people
2. Understand the need to provide services that are attuned to people’s experiences
3. Can reflect on how to adapt to a trauma responsive approach to helping people
4. Appreciate the need to look after their own and their colleagues’ well-being

Privacy Notice:
Information that you supply will be confidential and anonymised, and will only be used as part of this exercise. Your personal information will not be published or passed onto any other organisation. Personal information collected as part of this exercise will be kept for ten years to help us improve services before being securely destroyed.

Our privacy notice, which explains how we will process your personal information, how long we will retain it and your rights as a data subject, is available at a https://beta.southglos.gov.uk/privacy-notice
Start Date
Thursday 5 October 2023
End Date
Thursday 5 October 2023
Closing Date
Wednesday 4 October 2023
Times
09:30 - 16:00
Maximum Places
50 
Cost
£0.00 
Number of Sessions
1
Certificate expiry
No
Pass/Fail event
No