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1 | 17 September 2024 | 09:30 - 16:00 | Webinar: Microsoft Teams | Map |
To improve professional confidence of social care practitioners in Managing Challenging Conversations & Conflict Training to assist in successfully employing professional curiosity in a social care context.
Charges apply for non-South Glos Council staff
Cost: £103.50
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1 | 17 September 2024 | 09:30 - 16:30 | Kingswood Civic Centre | Map |
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, and any further resources, to you.
Please join the meeting prior to the 9.30 start, so you have time to check that the technology is working.
This workshop is for South Gloucestershire Council Adult Care practitioners ONLY.
The session will explore the importance of legally literacy and defensible decision-making in effective practice. Included will be a focus on:
• defining and developing an understanding of what is meant by both terms, from both a theoretical perspective and from your experience/practice
• ways to continue to develop your knowledge of the legal framework and how to ensure that it underpins your practice
• professional accountability and the importance of accurate analysis, free from bias, to inform your professional opinions and defensible decisions
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1 | 18 September 2024 | 09:30 - 16:30 | Webinar: Microsoft Teams | Map |
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1 | 18 September 2024 | 13:30 - 16:30 | Kingswood Civic Centre | Map |
This course is specifically for social work practitioners responsible for assessing the needs of autistic adults and completing Care Act Assessments.
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you must have completed the National mandatory Oliver McGowan Autism and Learning Disaiblity e-learning - click here to register
(South Glos Council Staff - when entering place of work, type in South Gloucestershire Council and select the one with Org Code: 911
Delivered by colleagues from Avon & Wiltshire Partnership, with a high level of expertise in supporting adults with autism, it will include a focus on:
Issues in assessment:
Opportunity to reflect on previous assessments with autistic adults
Consider how someone with autism might be eligible (unmet) needs in each outcome area of Care Act 2014
Why some ‘able’ adults get overlooked for support
Why a good assessment is essential for autistic adults – mental health co-morbidities- anxiety/low mood/suicidal risks
Reasons why assessment may be difficult eg apparent lack of engagement, communication of needs
Impact on families and carers,
How to work with parents
Autism and other social care law. Autism Act, Mental Capacity Act, Mental Health Act and Equality Act
Assessment:
Preparing for assessment, gathering information, time requirement
Using principles of safety, clarity, precision, empathy, and low arousal
How to structure visits, assessments and reviews for autistic adults
How to build rapport and develop trust
How to alter the way you communicate
Assessing sensory needs within context of the Care Act
Service provision:
Working with care providers and setting up placements for autistic adults
What does a good service look like?
Critically evaluating providers including specialist provision
Low level long term support methods
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1 | 26 September 2024 | 09:30 - 12:30 | Webinar: Microsoft Teams | Map |
Click here to join the meeting
Meeting ID: 326 347 601 105
Passcode: myZumG
This workshop aims to go through why we have ASYE, what your role is as an assessor and to effectively support them. Once you are booked on please email Georgina.burgess@southglos.go.uk, so the pre-workshop handouts can be sent to you.
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1 | 02 October 2024 | 09:00 - 10:30 | Webinar: Microsoft Teams | Map |
Time management for Newly Qualified Social Worker’s – online Teams meeting with PowerPoint, videos and discussions.
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1 | 02 October 2024 | 11:00 - 12:30 | Webinar: Microsoft Teams | Map |
This is a half-day workshop specifically designed for practitioners in the council's adult social care division.
It aims to give an overview of
• court room etiquette and processes.
• recording techniques for the recording of essential evidence
• key court forms , providing a guide to completion of the Court of Protection forms to increase worker skills and confidence in writing court documents.
Delivered by Penny Cumine and Maria Sweetman
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1 | 02 October 2024 | 09:30 - 13:00 | Kingswood Civic Centre | Map |
Exploitation happens when someone has power and control over another person. They take advantage of another person’s vulnerability to make money, improve their status or gain control. In order to gain control and power they will groom the victim. The way they do this is by befriending them. This could be by buying them gifts or by giving them money, alcohol or drugs. They could also make them feel special and give them a group to belong to. Perpetrators will target a person’s vulnerability, whether they are children or adults, and will try to isolate the victim to make them depend on the perpetrator.
Adult Exploitation is an extremely important issue for anyone working with vulnerable adults. Exploitation can effect a wide range of people in very many different ways. It is an issue that needs to be understood by professionals so they know who might be more vulnerable to being exploited, what to look out for when they are working with vulnerable people and what to do if they are concerned that someone they are working with may be a victim of exploitation.
It can sometimes be really hard for a victim to know and understand that they are a victim of exploitation, as the perpetrator could be regarded as a friend. It can be very hard for the victim to disclose that they are being abused as they are being controlled by the perpetrator and they rely on them for help and support. If professionals are aware of the warning signs and risk indicators then they may be able to see the signs before the victim is aware of what may be happening. It is important to flag up early signs of exploitation so that a multi-agency approach can be put into place. This would include police who could then try and spot any criminal offences being carried out by the perpetrator and the possibility of any emerging patterns such as organised crime and exploitation rings.
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1 | 03 October 2024 | 09:30 - 16:00 | Kingswood Civic Centre | Map |
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.
Please join the meeting prior to the 9.30 start, so you have time to check that the technology is working.
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.
The session will explore how strength-based practice fits with professional values, the legal framework and the role of Adult Social Care in 2023. We will look at the theoretical basis for strengths-based approaches, current and past. Delegates will share examples of their current practice as well as exploring the use and benefits of strengths-based questions/interventions in assessment, care & support planning, review and adult safeguarding conversations with adults and carers to focus on wellbeing, outcomes and creative solutions to meet need.
Session 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
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1 | 03 October 2024 | 09:30 - 16:30 | Webinar: Microsoft Teams | Map |