This is a two or three day Safeholding in Elderly Care course that explores the six stages of managing aggression and challenging behaviour. This includes understanding the causes of and reducing challenging behaviours with a focus on triggers and stressors related to elderly care settings (inc. Dementia) , de-escalating aggressive behaviour, physical and non-physical defensive strategies, guiding techniques and control & safer-holding techniques. Due to the vulnerability of elderly clients, we focus on low contact techniques that can help protect the care worker but also the client from harm.
What you'll learn.
Two day course
This course explores the causes of challenging behaviour within the required setting and pro-active strategies for reducing behaviours, de-escalation strategies for managing a situation once it has escalated, dynamic risk assessment principles to help staff recognise the appropriate course of action and then the law regarding physical intervention.
It then teaches staff physical techniques including disengagement, defence techniques, basic guiding and safeholding techniques for varying risk levels and situations.
Three day course
The content covered follows the same outline as the 2 day course but each day is focused on the separate course modules. Day 1 is managing challenging behaviour and de-escalation, day two explores the law relating to physical intervention and teaches staff disengagement and safe-holding techniques and day three explores scenarios and situations and gives staff more time to practice and absorb the techniques taught.
These techniques are currently being taught to various personnel working within the NHS, residential & nursing homes, schools, foster care and other organisations
Practical skills will be taught within the context of the dynamic risk assessment and the focus of the techniques taught will vary on the organisational needs (e.g primary school setting will be different to adult mental health).
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Who is Safeholding in Elderly Care for?
The physical intervention techniques taught on the course have been independently medically risk assessed by the Institute Of Conflict Management and incorporates techniques that are taught within the guide lines of :-
NHS Protect
BILD (British Institute of Learning Disabilities)
Department of Education
Department of Health
and meet:
Standards of other commercially driven training systems that teach control & restraint and physical intervention techniques
Skills for Health
Skills for Care.
What are the learning outcomes?
- List the possible causes of challenging behaviour
- Demonstrate de-escalation principles in the event of aggression
- Define the term ‘reasonable force’ and apply its principles
- Understand the law relating to Self Defence and Physical Intervention
- Perform a dynamic risk assessment
- Identify the importance of recording and debriefing
- Demonstrate effective defensive physical techniques (including- wrist, hair, throat and clothing grabs, punches, kicks, third party assistance and escorting/guiding techniques)
- Demonstrate effective 1 – 3 person restraint techniques in standing, walking and sitting positions (can include bed)
- Practice and reflect the importance of ‘Letting Go’ safely
- Practice effective escalation and de-escalation of techniques
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