List of training courses

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Understanding Recovery Mental Capacity Act Managing Deliberate Self Harm Service-users Earned Depression Anxiety management Anger management Psychosis Borderline Personality Disorder Therapeutic risk-taking Stress & Vulnerability Restraint for routine tasks Understanding the duty of care and the right to liberty in residential care settings part 1 Understanding the duty of care and the right to liberty in residential care settings part 2 Understanding the duty of care and the right to liberty in residential care settings part 3 Understanding the duty of care and the right to liberty in residential care settings part 4 Competent care or 'too posh to wash'?

List of training courses The secrets of non verbal communication Mental Capacity Act 2005 training Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) training Risk appreciation in health and social care Responding to violence and aggression Responding to challenging behaviour Protection of Vulnerable Adults (POVA/SOVA) Adult Support in Scotland (a new legal framework) Introduction to Person Centred Planning Maintaining professional boundaries Getting people to talk Goal setting and problem-solving Working with withdrawn people Residential care training offer

Introduction to mental health and disorder Personality Disorder Relapse prevention in mental disorder Deliberate Self Harm Introduction to substance misuse in social care Working with withdrawn service-users Introduction to psychosis (including schizophrenia) Understanding anxiety Understanding obsessions, compulsions and phobias Understanding depression The experience and assessment of voice-hearing Working with delusions

Effective communication for managers Effective time management Helping staff to understand the duty of care

"What if I train my staff and then they leave?"
"What if I don't train my staff and then they stay?"

AMJ Socialcare Training And Consultancy Ltd. offers training on a wide variety of topics for workers at all levels from unregistered support workers and care assistants to qualified nurses, doctors, social workers and others. Training is tailored specifically to the needs of the organisation taking into account the different levels of training and responsibility of participants.

Overall the aim is to provide accessible training in a way that is both enjoyable and inclusive.

If the course you're looking for isn't listed just ask. We regularly devise courses from scratch for both large and small organisations. What's more - we don't charge the earth to do so.

AMJ recommends that you train only those

workers who you would like to do well

Social Care

Introduction to the Mental Capacity Act (2005)
including the new 'Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards' (DoLS)
Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) for hospitals and residential care homes
Support planning
Effective risk management
Therapeutic risk-taking
Lone working
Communicating with service-users
Adult Support & Protection (Scotland) Act 2007
Introduction to person-centred planning
Protection of Vulnerable Adults (POVA/SOVA)
Professional boundaries
Record-keeping
Working with substance-users
Risk assessing potential service-users
Early intervention
Challenging behaviour (including hostility and aggression)
Getting people to talk
Non-verbal communication
Goal setting and problem-solving
Stress in the workplace

Mental Health

Introduction to mental disorder
Deliberate self-harm
Introduction to schizophrenia and psychosis
Understanding anxiety
Understanding Obsessive-compulsive disorder
Understanding depression
Understanding Bi-polar Affective disorder (Manic depression)
Dealing with withdrawn people
Collaborative practice in mental health
The experience and assessment of voice-hearing
Working with delusions (including 'guided discovery' in psychosis)
Empowering service-users
Dual diagnosis (mental disorder and substance dependence)
Relapse profiling in mental disorder

For Managers

Effective communication for managers
Effective staff supervision in social care
Effective time-management

Training will be delivered to your exact specifications at the venue of your choosing anywhere within mainland Britain. Training outside mainland Britain can also be delivered at negotiable rates. Please Email stuartsorensen@msn.com for further details.

News

Making things simple

29-01-2010

Many care providers are uncertain about the new Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards and the implications for their service. In particular they're unsure how to stay legal.

Residential care training offer

05-01-2010

This offer will be available until March 31st 2010

The last few years have brought sweeping changes to the way that care providers are regulated and new increased expectations have changed the duty of care for everyone involved in the care industry. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the residential care sector where increased demands and a brand new legal framework seems to create more and more ways for staff to get it wrong.

Philip Laing sentenced today

26-11-2009

A little while ago we commented on the case of Philip Laing, the Sheffield student who urinated on a war memorial after a session of heavy drinking.

Should Philip Laing go to prison?

05-11-2009

Philip Laing is 19 years old. Like many 19 year old students he sometimes drinks too much – a lot too much. Like many drunken teenagers he sometimes acts inappropriately when he’s ‘in his cups’. One night last October, following a night of drinking with his fellow sfgudents a very drunk Mr. Laing urinated on a war memorial in Sheffield's city centre.