Search for Learning and Development Services and Pathways

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.

This training is specifically for practitioners in South Glos Council's adult social care division, i.e. Social Workers, Occupational Therapists, Social Work Assistants, Occupational Therapy Assistants, Senior Practitioners etc.

Strength based approaches are not new in Adult Social Care. You will be familiar with this term and will be able to identify aspects of it in your current practice. Our starting point will be recognising the practice strengths and professional curiosity you already apply in South Gloucestershire in your work with adults and carers and enabling you to share ideas and tools with your colleagues. A strength-based approach is as much about how professionals think and feel about their role, and the individuals they work with, as it is about using new and/or different tools. It requires finding ways to share both power and responsibility with people to promote wellbeing. During the session you will have the chance to explore what this means for you and your colleagues in the challenging climate within which you are working.

Aim: To enable delegates to gain a consistent set of underpinning knowledge and to further develop skills and confidence in applying a strength-based approach in practice

This course is for practitioners new to the role of SENDCO or wanting to further develop their knowledge and skills in the role.

This is a 6-part course with gap tasks in between designed to support you to develop the skills and knowledge for the role including topics on,
• Your role and responsibilities
• Identifying needs
• Following the graduated approach (Assess, Plan, Do, Review)
• Additional Assessment Tools
• Working with parents
• Targets and outcomes
• Practical strategies
• Autism Education Trust- Making Sense of Autism


Dates: Thursday 3 November 2022
AND Thursday 10 November 2022
AND Thursday 17 November 2022
AND Thursday 24 November 2022
AND Thursday 1 December 2022
AND Thursday 8 December 202
Time: 1.30pm – 4.00pm
Venue: This training will be delivered virtually via Microsoft Teams