Search for Learning and Development Services and Pathways

This course provides essential underpinning knowledge and skills practice to enable staff to develop their competence in engaging with service users who are often thought of as hard to reach. This is initial core training before attending the three module Direct Assessment and Intervention Skills training. 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

Overview of the new MyView Dashboard.  This session will look at employee and manager functionality, including delegations, long term sickness and leavers notifications.

Overview of the new MyView Dashboard.  This session will look at employee and manager functionality, including delegations, long term sickness and leavers notifications.

Overview of the new MyView Dashboard.  This session will look at employee and manager functionality, including delegations, long term sickness and leavers notifications.

This training is aimed at council staff working to support adult social care services in South Gloucestershire - particularly staff working in customer services, brokerage, business support, housing services and commissioning teams.
Strength based approaches are not new in Adult Social Care. The aim of this 3-hour workshop is to enable delegates to gain a consistent set of underpinning knowledge and to consider ways to apply a strength-based approach in their own role, as well as being aware of how the approach is being used more widely by social care practitioners in operational teams.
You may already be familiar with the term and be able to identify aspects of it in you and your team's current practice. We will share ideas and experiences, and during the session you will have the chance to explore what it means for you and your colleagues.

This training is aimed at council staff working to support adult social care services in South Gloucestershire - particularly staff working in customer services, brokerage, business support, housing services and commissioning teams.
Strength based approaches are not new in Adult Social Care. The aim of this 3-hour workshop is to enable delegates to gain a consistent set of underpinning knowledge and to consider ways to apply a strength-based approach in their own role, as well as being aware of how the approach is being used more widely by social care practitioners in operational teams.
You may already be familiar with the term and be able to identify aspects of it in you and your team's current practice. We will share ideas and experiences, and during the session you will have the chance to explore what it means for you and your colleagues.

Working with Parents and CSE This is a one day course for practitioners who are working with parents and families affected by CSE. This course aims to look at practical approaches, tools and resources to use with families and explores effective ways to support parents when their child is being, or is at risk of being, sexually exploited.

This one day course looks at how to make sure that equality and diversity is at the heart of everything we do. It covers how to deal with day-to-day issues as well as what you can do to promote equality of opportunity in a planned way. Standard charge for this course is £70. There is a £10 charge for council employees to attend this course.

This is an introductory course in signing using the Signalong Adults with Learning Difficulties core vocabulary. This is an informal course open to people with no previous experience of signing and those who know/have learnt some Makaton. This course is open to anyone working with, or supporting adults with Learning Difficulties in the South Glos area. It is also open to families. 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

Managers are responsible for the management of individual and team performance. This one day training course will explain the Council's Personal Development and Performance Review process. The workshop focuses on practising the skills to carry out effective meetings, understanding objective setting and making the PDPR process meaningful for all staff. Workforce Development.