Local training opportunities
Make the most of the opportunities for your staff to attend training across the county to support their continuous development and save you money.
If you have a training opportunity (free or with a cost) you want to advertise here, contact Hannah Blower.
Current opportunities include:
Adult Care Induction
Provider: Kemble TrainingDate: March: 4th - 8th March / 18th - 22nd March // April: 8th - 12th April / 29th - 3rd // May: 13th – 17th May // June: 3rd – 7th June / 17th - 21st June // July: 8th – 12th July / 22nd - 26th July // August: 5th – 9th August / 19th – 23rd August
Cost: £280
Content: Aligned to the Care Certificate standards this 5 day training programme covers all mandatory training for new employees. Employers can claim back WDF (Workforce Development Fund) to support the cost of completing this training. The course content includes:
- The Care Certificate
- First Aid
- Moving and Handling of People
- Medication
- Personal Care
- Dementia Awareness
Booking: For more information and booking visit https://www.kembletraining.com/5-day-caretraining
Safeguarding
Provider: Kemble TrainingDate: Tuesday 5th March 09:30 to 13:30
Cost: £60
Content: Aimed at learners who are either new to the role or would need a full refresh of Training.
Booking:For more information and booking visit https://www.kembletraining.com/safeguarding
First Aid Induction
Provider: Kemble TrainingDate: 13:30 to 17:30 - March: 5th, 29th / April: 9th, 30th / May: 14th / June: 4th, 18th / July: 9th, 23rd / August: 6th, 20th
Cost: £60
Content: Aimed at existing or new care staff to update skills and knowledge including CPR.
Booking: For more information and booking visit https://www.kembletraining.com/first-aid
Moving and Handling Induction
Provider: Kemble TrainingDate: 09:00 to 13:00 - March: 5th, 19th / April: 9th, 30th / May: 14th / June: 4th, 18th / July: 9th, 23rd July / August: 6th, 20th
Cost: £60
Content: Aimed at learners who are either new to the role or would need a full refresh of Training.
Booking: For more information and booking visit https://www.kembletraining.com/moving-and-handling-of-people
Palliative & End of Life Care and Organ Diseases 2 (Heart Disease)
Provider: St Michael’s HospiceDate: Wednesday 6th March 09.30 - 12.30
Cost: £40 including refreshments
Content: We will consider issues relevant to Palliation of organ disease (heart disease). We will have the opportunity to examine the impact of such diagnosis and the impact of transitions of care for both professionals and patient/family.
Booking: Contact education@smhospicehereford.org
Medication Induction
Provider: Kemble TrainingDate: 09:00 to 13:00 - March: 7th, 21st / April: 11th / May: 2nd, 16th / June: 6th, 20th / July: 11th, 25th / August: 8th, 22nd
Cost: £60
Content: Aimed at learners who are either new to the role or would need a full refresh of Training.
Booking: For more information and booking visit https://www.kembletraining.com/medication
Dementia Level 2 Award
Provider: Kemble TrainingDate: March: 8th, 22nd / April: 12th / May: 3rd, 17th / June: 7th, 21st/ July: 12th, 26th / August: 9th, 23rd
Content:Aimed at new and existing care staff to give them an understanding of what Dementia is and to support them with further knowledge so they can support end users. This accredited course lasts for one day with a work book completed in the following week in their own time. The work book is then marked, quality assured and then accredited with our awarding body City and Guilds.
Booking: For more information and booking visit https://www.kembletraining.com/dementia
Fire Safety Level 1
Provider: Kemble TrainingDate: 9am 11th March
Content: Aimed at existing or new staff to update skills and knowledge.
Booking: For more information and booking visit https://www.kembletraining.com/fire-safety
Medication Induction
Provider: Kemble TrainingDate: 12th March – 10am & 1:30pm, 9th May – 1:30pm, 11th June – 10am & 1:30pm, 16th June – 10am & 1:30pm, 13th August – 10am & 1:30pm.
Cost: £40
Content: 3 hour refresher course aimed at existing care staff as an annual refresher to update skills and knowledge.
Booking: For more information and booking visit https://www.kembletraining.com/moving-and-handling-of-people
Palliative & End of Life Care in Dementia
Provider: St Michael’s HospiceDate: Wednesday 13th March 09.30 - 16.30
Cost: £65 including refreshments
Content: Dementia is a major health care issue locally, with an ageing population. This event covers an opportunity to review the palliative care needs in a group of people for whom assessment and communication present us with significant challenges. It includes:
- Dementia – What do we mean?
- Aims of Care & Transitionary Processes
- Individual Assessment in Cognitive Impairment
- Managing Symptoms
- Maintaining Personhood
- Supporting Families
Booking: Contact education@smhospicehereford.org
Medication Refresher
Provider: Kemble TrainingDate: 10 am - 14th March, 18th April, 9th May, 18th July, 15th August
Cost: £40
Content: Aimed at existing care staff as an annual refresher to update skills and knowledge.
Booking: For more information and booking visit https://www.kembletraining.com/medication
Illness & Self Concepts
Provider: St Michael’s HospiceDate: Wednesday 20th March 09.30 - 12.30
Cost: £40 including refreshments
Content: We will look at speci¬fic aspects which may be pertinent to many individuals and families - whatever the life threatening illness may be. It includes:
- Self perception
- Illness behaviour
- Self care and transitions
- Living with chronicity
Booking: Contact education@smhospicehereford.org
MCA Dols for Managers
Provider: Kemble TrainingDate: Tuesday 23rd March 9am (full day)
Cost: £40 including refreshments
Content: Aimed at Care Managers, Supervisors and Team leaders to refresh/update their knowledge.
Booking: For more information and to book visit https://www.kembletraining.com/mca-dols
Emergency First Aid at Work Level 3
Provider: Kemble CareDate: Friday 26th March 9am
Cost: £40 including refreshments
Content: Aimed at existing or new staff to update skills and knowledge. The objective of this qualification is to support learners in becoming emergency first aiders in the workplace. The content of the qualification meets the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) requirements for training emergency first-aiders in those organisations that have identified that staff need to be trained to this level within their first-aid needs assessment.
The qualification covers knowledge such as the roles and responsibilities of the first aider and how to assess an incident. The qualification also covers first aid skills in cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and use of an automated external defibrillator (AED), providing first aid to a casualty who is choking and dealing with external bleeding and hypovolaemic shock.
In line with guidance provided by the HSE, the qualification supports/approves work place emergency first aiders for a period of 3 years, after which point learners will need to retake the course.
Booking: For more information and booking visit https://www.kembletraining.com/first-aid
Ethical and Personal Impact Issues and Palliation in Rheumatological Diseases
Provider: St Michael’s HospiceDate: Wednesday 27th March 10.00 - 13.00
Cost: £40 including refreshments
Content: This morning we are going to explore some of the psychological and ethical aspects of Long Term Conditions. We will also focus specially on Palliative care and Rheumatology.
Booking: Contact education@smhospicehereford.org
Supporting the Needs of Family Members In the Context of Non-malignant Life Threatening Illness
Provider: St Michael’s HospiceDate: Wednesday 3rd April 09.30 - 12.30
Cost: £40 including refreshments
Content: This day provides an opportunity to consider the needs of children and young people both as family members and as patients.
- Breaking bad news to children and young people - Whose role?
- Supporting children and young people when a family member is very ill
- Paediatric life threatening & life-limiting illness
- Supporting families when a child or young person
- Bereavement – children and young people
Booking: Contact education@smhospicehereford.org
Palliation in Neurological Disease
Provider: St Michael’s HospiceDate: Wednesday 17th April 09.30 - 16.30
Cost: £65 including refreshments
Content: Neurological disease presents us with a raft of practical, clinical and ethical problems. The aim of this event is to consider how, when and where palliative care begins and ¬fits in with other supportive care elements.
- Ethical Considerations of Treatment
- Parkinson’s Disease
- Multiple Sclerosis
- Motor Neurone Disease
- Other Neurological Conditions
Booking: Contact education@smhospicehereford.org
Communication, Grief and Loss
Provider: St Michael’s HospiceDate: Wednesday 1st May 09.30 - 16.30
Cost: £65 including refreshments
Content: The focus of this day will be facing loss and death. How we offer supportive care to individuals and families, and how this work impacts upon us as professional carers.
- Multiple Losses
- Anticipatory Grief
- Theories and Models of Grief and Loss
- Bereavement Support – What, When, Where & Who?
- Who Cares for the Carers?
- Facing Death and Finding Hope
- Stress and Coping
Booking: Contact education@smhospicehereford.org
MCA Dols Refresher
Provider: Kemble TrainingDate: 26th April and 29th July (9 to 12)
Cost: £40
Content: Aimed at existing care staff as an annual refresher to update skills and knowledge.
Booking: For more information and to book, visit: https://www.kembletraining.com/mca-dols
Safeguarding Refresher
Provider: Kemble TrainingDate: 29th April and 29th July (1:30pm to 4:30pm)
Cost: £40
Content: Aimed at existing care staff as an annual refresher to update skills and knowledge.
Booking: For more information and to book, visit: https://www.kembletraining.com/safeguarding
Health and Safety Level 2
Provider: Kemble TrainingDate: Tuesday 28th May 9am (full day)
Cost: £40
Content: Aimed at existing or new staff to update skills and knowledge. This qualification is designed to provide learners with knowledge of the basic health and safety practices essential in the workplace. The qualification provides learners with an understanding of the responsibilities and employers and employees, the benefits of good health and safety, steps to a risk assessment, common causes of and how to reduce accidents, near misses and ill-health, typical hazards and controls in the workplace, emergency procedures and the importance of recording accidents, near misses and ill-health occurrences.
Booking: For more information and booking, visit: https://www.kembletraining.com/health-and-safety
First Aid Refresher
Provider: Kemble TrainingDate: 29th May and 28th August at 10am
Cost: £40
Content: Aimed at existing or new care staff to update skills and knowledge
Booking: For more information and booking, visit: https://www.kembletraining.com/first-aid
St Michael’s Hospice Training Programme
Relevant upcoming training has been advertised on this page but a whole programme of events run throughout the year, for more information, take a look at St Michael’s Hospice Education Programme 2018 here.Training games to support staff training available to loan
Training games are available for providers to loan to support staff training sessions. They are great for helping make sessions interactive and fun. Subjects covered include:• Stop the Pressure
• Care Certificate
• Removing Barriers
• Nutrition
• Infection Control
• Dysphagia
• Medication
• Hydration
• Communication
• Sepsis
• Stroke
• Harm free/pressure care
Email: Bron Williams or call: 01432 383116 for more details.The Employees' Support in Skills project (ESS) (funded by the European Social Fund)
When: Funding available until March 2019Organiser: Riverside Training
The subject: The ESS supports SMEs (small and medium sized enterprises) within the Marches to upskill employees aged 16 and over to develop their knowledge, skills and career prospects.
This is achieved by delivering fully funded local training that meets the requirements identified by the Marches Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) and includes the health and social care sector.
Riverside are working with Hoople Training and Education and Kemble Training to offer fully funded training opportunities. Please click on the following links for further information and contact details:
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