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Resilience is a skill that you can learn and build on. This webinar looks at how you can build your physical, emotional, mental and social resilience to help you deal with the challenges you are facing such as social isolation, anxiety and variations in motivation. It will help you consider the small things you do every day that can have a huge impact and give you tools and techniques that will help you in work and home, as well as share with others.

THIS TRAINING SESSION WILL BE DELIVERED VIA ZOOM - YOU WILL RECEIVE YOUR ZOOM INVITE SHORTLY BEFORE TRAINING.

IF YOU ARE A SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE EMPLOYEE YOU WILL NEED TO CONTACT OUR IT DEPARTMENT TO REQUEST YOUR ZOOM LICENSE.

PLEASE FIND THE JOINING INSTRUCTIONS AND PRE-COURSE WORK ATTACHED TO THIS EVENT. YOU MUST COMPLETE THIS BEFORE ATTENDING.

Please note: By booking onto this course, you are consenting to your contact details being passed onto the trainer. This is so they can send the Zoom invitation to you.

This 2 hour webinar is delivered on behalf of the South Gloucestershire Children's Partnership.

Participants should be only those who have already completed an Advanced-level of Child Protection training within statutory or setting-related timescales, and who now need to maintain this level of training.

Also, it will be necessary for participants to have completed distance learning provided, prior to the webinar.

Participants will be expected to have a good working knowledge of safeguarding with experience of statutory and local child protection responsibilities and procedures.


Effective child protection depends not only on reliable and accepted procedures for all staff involved with children, but also on their skills, knowledge and judgment and the ability to work together co-operatively.

Staff with lead roles in child protection require specialised training in order to carry out their work with abused children and families.

The learning outcomes for this training are designed to ensure that all participants receive updates in the latest child protection legislation, statutory guidance, local policies, procedures and professional requirements.


The learning outcomes for this training are designed to ensure that all participants receive updates in the latest child protection legislation, statutory guidance, local policies, procedures and professional requirements.

These workshops are for South Glos Council Integrated Childrens Services staff only, i.e. who come into contact with young people and families. This includes managers who have responsibility for supervision, policy and decision-making.
The aim is to build good practice across children and young people's services, both challenging and supporting front line practitioners to be clear about what good practice looks like. There will be a focus on examples of good practice and support to staff to self evaluate their own practice against these examples. The aim is for everyone to share and learn from the things that went well, not so well, and what people would do differently to improve things.

THIS TRAINING SESSION WILL BE DELIVERED VIA CISCO WEBEX - YOU WILL RECEIVE A MEETING INVITE SHORTLY BEFORE THE TRAINING COURSE.

This one-day, remotely-delivered, training course provides excellent foundation knowledge and awareness of how to manage contracts with external providers successfully in order to extract better value-for-money and deliver the desired commercial outcomes. Competence in this area is equally about how to manage intelligently, knowing when to consult with professional colleagues especially when undertaking complex processes such as contractual change, recognising the key drivers that will improve supplier performance and understanding the role and importance of robust contract governance.

The course is ideal for individuals who have accountability for managing third party service providers within the council (including budget holders, contract managers, relationship managers, service delivery managers and procurement practitioners), as well as those that are relatively new to the procurement function.

Please note there is £100 charge for all delegates to attend this course (invoiced to North Somerset and B&NES delegates, and recharged to departments for South Glos delegates).

As of 1st August, we are making changes to our first aid training in line with further guidance and awarding body advice. This will be the following:

All participants attending any of our First Aid training courses will be required to bring a 3 ply face mask, fabric masks / scarves will not be acceptable

This mask will be mandatory to wear for all practical elements of the training, but is optional for the theory portion of the course



This is a one day course for participants to develop the skills necessary to provide emergency first aid to someone who has an accident or suddenly becomes ill at work. Participants will be trained and assessed during the course in order to receive a certificate. Please note - you will be required to complete 3 practical assessments and a multiple choice test. You need to bring Photo ID eg passport, driving licence. If these are not available please bring your Work ID with photo If you require assistance with reading/writing please let the use know prior to the start of the course.

In light of the new restrictions which came into place yesterday, Grace and I have been thinking of new ways to support you and your teenager. We realise this is an uncertain time for you all and can cause anxiety, stresses and isolation from social interactions which can affect everyone’s mental health. To help reduce these pressures we thought it would be nice to offer a new way to socialize with others by offering an open space via Microsoft teams, to interact with others who are birth children in the fostering family. We would like to offer an hour drop-in session to chat and chill with other teenagers who are birth children aged 13-18 years old. The drop-in sessions would allow them to interact and talk openly about anything they would like, with the support of myself and Grace and others in a similar position. We will run the session twice a month to start with but if there is a need to increase the sessions, we are happy to provide this. We will continue these sessions until we have a further update regarding the national lockdown restrictions.

Online training has arrived!

Get excited... Level 1 online Makaton training has arrived from the South Glos Early Years Team! We are living through some of the most challenging times our country has known, creating levels of anxiety and uncertainty not experienced for over 70 years. As all of us who work in the sector know, this is even more acutely felt by those with a learning disability or communication need. This is a learning curve for all of us.

Cost –
£69
+ £5.95 delivery cost of manual
(For staff teams we may be able to arrange collections or delivery of manuals if in the South Glos area)

Your workshop manual will be posted to you prior to the workshop start and you will be sent a link to join this event online.
This training will be delivered online so you will need access to a PC with webcam, laptop or tablet to take part. Places are limited so you will need to book asap.

Participants must complete Level 1 before they can attend Level 2 or level 3, be aged 16 or over and be resident in the UK at the time of training. Dates may be subject to change dependant on course sign up.
earlyyears@southglos.gov.uk to book or for more information

PLEASE FIND ATTACHED YOUR HANDOUTS AND ZOOM INVITE - PLEASE KEEP SAFE.


PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS TRAINING SESSION WILL BE DELIVERED BY ZOOM.

IF YOU ARE A SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE EMPLOYEE YOU WILL NEED TO CONTACT OUR IT DEPARTMENT TO REQUEST YOU ZOOM LICENSE.


Please note you have to do this training programme in order.
South Gloucestershire Council has launched a new interactive training programme that gives Health and Social Care Workers the skills, knowledge, confidence and practice to apply and comply with the Mental Capacity Act 2005. The programme is made up of interactive learning workshops. The new skills and knowledge gained from the workshops are then applied in the workplace and you will send us evidence. You'll be given feedback as you acheive the required good practice and compliance standard of the Mental Capacity Act 2005. The programme is designed for Care Provider managers, Social Worker and Occupational Therapy staff and managers, nurses and all other professionals working in health and social care. You can select from a series of modules as relevant to your job which are listed below.

How the programme works -
You attend a module workshop
You then submit evidence of what you have learned in the workplace (usually within six weeks)
You receive feedback which may be shared with your employer.

Once you have achieved the required standard for compliance and good practice in line with the MCA code of practice you will be awarded a certificate for that module.

Continuing Professional Development
This programme can be used by Social Workers as a basis for Accredited Learning under the South Gloucestershire Council/ University of the West of England Integrated Professional Development Programme

The standard charge for this course is £40. Please refer to our Course Charges on the Home page for information on discounts and exemptions.

THIS TRAINING SESSION IS NOW BEING DELIVERED VIRTUALLY USING ZOOM.

South Glos Council employees must request a Zoom Licence from ICT by logging a support ticket (Intranet Home Page, under ICT)

THIS WILL NOW BE DELIVERED IN TWO PARTS - PART A 13TH JANUARY 2021 AND PART B 20TH JANUARY 2021.

YOU WILL NEED TO ATTEND A RAISING SAFEGUARDING CONCERNS COURSE BEFORE ATTENDING THIS TRAINING. Managers of agencies that provide services for adults at risk must ensure they lead a "safe service", with competent staff and an organisational culture that safeguards adults. This 1-day workshop will help delegates to understand and be accountable for the key factors in managing and preventing organisational abuse in the services they lead and/or review. For full-day courses – The standard charge for this course is £80 per day. Please refer to our Course Charges on the Home page for information on discounts and exemptions.X

This training will look at what we mean by safer caring and how to promote safe practices for those caring for children in their homes.