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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 invitation to you.
ESSENTIAL pre-course reading/tasks are attached.
Please join the meeting prior to the 9.30 start, so you have time to check that the technology is working.
The session will explore the crucial role that carers play as a key partner of Adult Social Care.
“The vast majority of care in the UK is provided by family and friends, who make up the UK’s carer population. Social services and the NHS rely on carers’ willingness and ability to provide care and without it they would collapse.” (Facts about Carers. Carers UK. August 2019)
We will look at key data about carers, including in relation to some of the challenges that are commonly faced. You will also benefit from the opportunity to reflect on your own experiences, personal and professional, of caring and carers, and to learn from the lived experiences of carers including a guest speaker from South Gloucestershire. The Carers’ Support Centre will share their expertise in relation to working with and supporting carers over many years. Alongside colleagues, you will explore how to apply 3Cs, strengths-based approaches and legal literacy in your engagement with carers in line with South Gloucestershire Council ‘Carer Practitioner Guidance’. A key theme throughout the day will be recognising the positive impact that you, as a practitioner, can have in promoting the rights and wellbeing of carers and as a result, the wellbeing of adult(s) they care for.
COST: £103.50
Session | Session Date | Session Time | Session Venue | Map |
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1 | 17 July 2024 | 09:30 - 16:30 | Webinar: Microsoft Teams | Map |
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This Disability and Neurodiversity Awareness training will explore and demystify many of the topics and questions around this important subject.
We’ll look at topics including definitions, language, the Equality Act and reasonable adjustments, and have an in-depth look at ADHD and autism.
The training will be delivered in a conversational style, with questions and discussion encouraged, and we promise there will be no homework!
Session | Session Date | Session Time | Session Venue | Map |
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1 | 17 July 2024 | 10:00 - 13:00 | Microsoft TEAMS | Map |
This event will be a question and answer session led by Petros Careswell, the recently appointed Service Manager for Corporate Parenting (Children in Care and Care Leavers). Petros will be joined by two of his managers Callum Bagley from Children in Care and Jenny Down from our Care Leavers Team.
Petros will talk about his plans for the service moving forward, including trying to improve his teams practice in assessing, planning and supporting those children who return home to parents as well as the importance of good quality transitions for our children who reach adulthood.
Petros, Callum and Jenny will then be eager to hear from you, where things are working well but also where there is room for improvements.
Session | Session Date | Session Time | Session Venue | Map |
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1 | 17 July 2024 | 10:00 - 12:00 | Pomphrey Hill Community Sports Pavillion | Map |
IF YOU ARE A SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE EMPLOYEE YOU WILL NEED TO CONTACT OUR IT DEPARTMENT TO REQUEST YOU ZOOM LICENSE. YOU WILL NEED TO FILL OUT THIS FORM IF YOU HAVE NOT ALREADY OBTAINED A ZOOM LICENCE.
Please check that you can access Zoom prior to the event. Licences can take up to an hour after being requested, zoom can be accessed via the web browser if you have not been able to request your license in time.
If you work with Children please book onto the Children's Services version of this course
Please note you have to do this training programme in order.
SGC staff only:
Additional learning resources here: Mental Capacity and Deprivation of Liberty (Sway resource)
Request to shadow a MCA assessment here: Peer Shadowing Network Yammer Group
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.
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.
The standard charge for this course is £49. Please refer to our Course Charges on the Home page for information on discounts and exemptions.
Session | Session Date | Session Time | Session Venue | Map |
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1 | 17 July 2024 | 09:30 - 12:30 | Webinar: Zoom | Map |
This will be delivered via Zoom and hosted by Phil Harris (Training Exchange). You will be sent a Zoom invite nearer the time.
SOUTH GLOS COUNCIL STAFF - To access training being delivered by Zoom please complete this form. Once the form is filled out access should automatically be granted within an hour of completion. ZOOM Access Form
Motivational interviewing is a leading approach to increase motivation and commitment to change. It was first developed in the alcohol field, but as they had identified that there was no specific addiction psychology, it has been developed in a wide range of areas including social work, offending, mental health and homelessness fields. It has proven particularly effective with stuck or entrenched clients from a wide range of backgrounds. This course maps the key factors that elicit change and demonstrates how Motivational Interviewing works alongside these forces. Drawing on both person centred and directive techniques, it offers practical skills to assist the workers to helps clients articulate and recognise the need for change. As such, it is an effective primer to increase engagement with clients who have not yet achieved a sufficient level of commitment and move them into action without confrontation.
Who is the Course For?: Motivational Interviewing is useful for a wide range of social issues. Its primary focus is on igniting motivation to change, and so it is helpful when clients are stuck in problems and not advancing in change. It is a useful skill in all change and recovery based services such as mental health, substance misuse, offending, social work, domestic violence, supported housing, young people’s services, family work and more besides.
Method of Delivery: The training programme comes with an extensive booklet for each participant. The training course is highly interactive, even during presentations. It uses a wide variety of learning approaches including presentations, pairs and small group work exercises and self-assessment. The course is also supported with free e-learning and further resources to re-cap, review and refresh learning.
Session | Session Date | Session Time | Session Venue | Map |
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1 | 17 July 2024 | 09:30 - 16:00 | Webinar: Zoom | Map |
At the end of this 2-day course participants will be ParentAssess trained – this is the equivalent of being PAMS
trained and you will be able to complete specialist assessments for Family Proceedings.
Although ParentAssess was designed for parents with a learning disability, it has flexible application and can be used
for all parenting assessments including pre-births, parents with mental health issues and parents who have Autism.
The aim of the course is to:
•Introduce a new framework
•Develop an understanding of the issues relating to parents with a LD
• Learn about the problems facing these parents
•Develop skills in using the ParentAssess tools
•Develop skills in observation
Session | Session Date | Session Time | Session Venue | Map |
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1 | 17 July 2024 | 09:30 - 16:30 | Kingswood Civic Centre | Map |
2 | 18 July 2024 | 09:30 - 16:30 | Kingswood Civic Centre | Map |