Course schedule

This 2 day course will train you as a Mental Health First Aider. It will give you an understanding of mental health issues, skills to spot triggers and signs of mental distress and how to step in and support others and also signpost to further help.

This course is for Shropshire Council staff working in Adult Social Care Teams only.  It replaces the MAPA Personal Safety at Work course offered previously, includes disengagement skills and is tailored specifically for staff who do not provide direct care.

Training to improve knowledge of medication administration in care settings.

Training to introduce and increase understanding of safeguarding adults.

Training to introduce and increase understanding of safeguarding and protecting children.

Leadership and management training on the essential principles of presentation skills and their use for managers and team leaders.

Introduction to parental conflict and reducing parental conflict, understanding why it is essential to tackle relationship dysfunction and making a difference to family life.

This course is recommended for staff working in health and social care who need to prevent and/or intervene in crisis situations and whose Training Needs Analysis has established that they require disengagement skills only (no holding).

This course is recommended for staff working in health and social care who need to prevent and/or intervene in crisis situations and whose Training Needs Analysis has established that they require disengagement and holding skills.

Overview of the Care Act 2014, context and background. Discussion and learning around framework, wellbeing and duties.

Leadership and management training to increase knowledge of time management.

Increase understanding of coercive control and how to adopt a trauma informed approach.