Residential care training offer

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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Planning Maintaining professional boundaries Getting people to talk Goal setting and problem-solving Working with withdrawn people Residential care training offer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Relapse prevention in mental disorder Deliberate Self Harm Introduction to substance misuse in social care Working with withdrawn service-users Introduction to psychosis (including schizophrenia) Understanding anxiety Understanding obsessions, compulsions and phobias Understanding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

Residential care training offer

Exciting new offer for elderly residential care providers from AMJ

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.

AMJ prefers to help you to get it right but we also know how difficult it is to allow for good quality training from the budgets you have to work with. That’s why AMJ has introduced a new package to make the training that CQC inspectors are looking for fit the funding you receive from care commissioners.

£100 discount on single day training courses

Throughout 2009 AMJ was offering training at a day rate of £550+VAT. Unfortunately this meant that many care providers were unable to afford the full range of courses they needed to take. So we’ve made some changes…

The standard day rate has fallen to £450+VAT
Buy one training course and get a second at half price
Buy two training courses and get a third absolutely free
We are also offering half day seminars for up to 20 people for the reduced price of £250+VAT

Choose from the following ‘must have’ courses.

Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults and the new Independent Safeguarding Authority for managers
Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults for residential care workers
Dementia awareness for care workers
National Dementia Strategy for residential care home managers
The Mental Capacity Act for residential care managers
The Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) for residential care home managers
The Mental Capacity Act and the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) for residential care workers

Call AMJ on 07872 102626 to take advantage of this remarkable offer.

The training costs:

£450+VAT for a full day or

£300+VAT for a half day.

Buy one – get one (cheapest) half price (booked together)

Buy two – get third (cheapest) free (booked together)

Choose from:

Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults and the new Independent Safeguarding Authority for managers

Following on from the Bichard report and the Safeguarding of Vulnerable Groups Act 2006 the system for safeguarding has changed dramatically. The three old lists (POVA, POCA and List 99) have been replaced by a simpler, more streamlined system with a childrens’ list and an adults’ list. There is also a new body adminsitrative body, the Independent Safeguarding Authority, a new registration scheme for workers and new criminal offences for employers.

Are you up to speed with the new framework?

Available as a full day course (16 max) or a half day seminar (20 max).

Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults for residential care workers

Less in depth than the managers’ version this course deals with the basic legal requirements before focussing on the definitions of abuse, the role of the alerter, a brief overview of what happens when abuse is suspected and the need to take abuse seriously. The basic message is for workers to know what is reportable, to report what they see to their managers and to ensure that they don’t get in the way of subsequent investigation processes.

Available as a full day course (16 max) or a half day seminar (20 max).

Dementia awareness for care workers

What is dementia anyway?

Physical, psychological and behavioural effects and stages put into an everyday context so you don’t need a medical degree to understand it.

What can we do?

Principles, tips and strategies for working with people who suffer from dementias.

Available as a full day training course (max 16)

The National Dementia Strategy for residential managers

The National Dementia Strategy contains 17 recommendations that the government is asking from all relevant care providers. Essentially they are grouped around three key themes:

Raising awareness
Early diagnosis and support
Living well with dementia

The strategy has implications for residential care providers, the commissioning of services is tied into achieving the strategies aims including recommendations around training, accountability and general care provision. Do you know what you need to do?

Available as a full day course (max 16) or a half day seminar (max 20)

The Mental Capacity Act for residential care managers

By now everyone has heard of the Mental Capacity Act and the effect it has had on decisions for people with dementias or other problems making decisions. However most training courses are too general and it’s difficult to get the information that you really need for residential services from a generic course.

This course takes the confusion and the mystery out of the MCA by relating it to real residential care situations in a jargon-free way. If you have found the new legislation confusing this is the course for you.

Available as a full day training course (max 16)

The Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) for residential care home managers

On April 1^st 2009 the new Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards came into effect. The safeguards are only relevant to hospitals and care homes where the impact of these safeguards is already being felt.

Based upon principles of UK and European Law the Safeguards give you a way to deprive someone of their liberty (keep a confused resident inside or give them medications etc) without using the Mental Health Act or having to go to court.

The old ‘best interests’ judgements are no longer enough. Neither is the family’s instruction to stop a resident leaving. Managers who fail to use the DoLS process to deprive a person of their liberty could face up to 5 years in prison as a result.

This course outlines the process that managers must follow, the reasoning behind each stage and the legal pitfalls to be avoided.

Available as a full day training course (max 16)

The Mental Capacity Act and the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) for residential care workers

Care workers ‘on the shop floor’ need to understand the new legislation in less detail than their managers do. However they do need to understand their new responsibilities and the way that the Mental Capacity Act fits in with their wider duty of care.

This course builds upon the five statutory principles of the Mental Capacity Act to construct an easy to follow summary that care workers can easily remember and comply with at work. Using everyday examples we relate each learning point to instantly recognisable situations to ensure understanding.

Then we describe the responsibilities for residential care workers under the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards and outline what to bring to their managers for further consideration or application to the Local Authority for DoLS authorisation.

Available as a full day course (max 16) or a half day seminar (max 20)

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

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.