Challenging Behaviour Training for adult and child settings including Schools & Education, Foster Care, Children’s Homes, Elderly Care, Social Care & Mental Health settings.
Healthcare Overview:
Prepare your team to meet the ever-growing challenges within healthcare by keeping them up to date with their training. Able training offers a wide range of mandatory and optional training courses for healthcare professionals, including care nurses, counsellors, therapists, social workers and health practitioners.
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Able Target System, Positive Behavioural Support
Module 3: Positive Handling & Restraint
For medium risk settings Module 3 provides training in restrictive and non-restrictive physical intervention skills including; positive handling, guiding/shepherding techniques, restraint or clinical holding. For those experience hazardous behaviours that poses physical risk to staff or service users, where non-restrictive breakaway skills may not always be adequate to manage the risk and restrictive physical skills or manual restraint may be required.
Health & Safety
Oral Health Care
This 3 hour course will give staff additional skills to support those they work with in their oral care.
Mental Health, Understanding People's Needs
Supportive Observations within Mental Health
The overall aim of supportive observations is to prevent potentially suicidal, violent or vulnerable patients from harming themselves or others, manage risk or therapeutic activity.
First Aid, First Aid Mental Health, Mental Health, Understanding People's Needs
First Aid for Mental Health Level 3
An in-depth, accredited course in First Aid for Mental Health, covering recognition, treatment and support of a variety of conditions including PTSD, Depression, Substance Abuse, and Personality Disorders.
First Aid, First Aid Mental Health, Mental Health, Understanding People's Needs
First Aid for Mental Health Level 2
A single day, accredited course in First Aid for Mental Health, covering recognition, awareness and support for a variety of conditions including PTSD, Depression, Substance Abuse, and Personality Disorders.
Managing Challenging Behaviour, Understanding People's Needs
Understanding Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder
Our Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder course gives learners an overview of what FASD is and helps them recognise the signs and symptoms of the disorder. The course outlines tools and strategies for the support, care and education of someone affected with FASD and how it may affect them across their lifespan.
Safeguarding, Understanding People's Needs
Mental Capacity Act and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards
This course is aimed at those working with individuals to whom the Mental Capacity Act 2005 may apply and explores key concepts around the MCA and the new LPS system.
Safeguarding
Safeguarding Adults
This course covers the physical and emotional aspects of safeguarding adults.
Conflict Management, Managing Challenging Behaviour, Positive Behavioural Support
Challenging Behaviour in Adult Care
This course explores the causes and strategies for identifying and managing challenging behaviours in adults to create win-win outcomes.
Health & Safety
COSHH Awareness
This course gives learners the knowledge and skills to recognise the risks associated with hazardous substances and how to control them.
Understanding People's Needs
Dementia Awareness
This course enables attendees to better understand dementia and to build relationships with and offer practical support to those with dementia.
Personal Development
Equality & Diversity
This course raises awareness of Equality & Diversity in the workplace, encourages candidates to reflect on their values, attitudes and opinions and explores how prejudices develop.
Health & Safety
Infection Control Awareness
This course provides candidates with the basic knowledge and understanding of infection control and meets the requirements of the Induction Standard 4.6 “Infection Control”.
Managing Challenging Behaviour, Personal Safety, Physical Intervention
Breakaway & Restraint Training
This course explores the six stages of managing aggression and challenging behaviour including physical and non-physical defence strategies and will be tailored to your workplace setting.
Moving & Handling
Moving People Safely: Refresher
This course is an ideal refresher course for those working in areas where the assistance and movement of people is a prerequisite part of their role.
Moving & Handling
Moving & Handling Loads
This course provides an effective means of ensuring that employees are aware of their responsibilities and have understood the principles of the safe moving and lifting of loads.
Able Target System, Positive Behavioural Support
Module 1: Positive Behavioural Support (PBS) & De-escalation
For low risk settings. Module 1 covers Positive Behavioural Support & De-escalation training for those that experience behaviour of concern but there is little or physical risk to staff or service users. It is also suitable for those who want to better support individuals to prevent behaviours from escalating.
Able Target System, Positive Behavioural Support
Module 5: Mechanical Restraint
For high risk settings that require mechanical restraint Module 5 provides training for those who have the need to use personal safety devices or mechanical restraints e.g soft cuffs.
Able Target System, Positive Behavioural Support
Module 4: Advanced Safe Holding
For medium to high risk settings, Module 4 provides advanced physical skills training to manage high risk situations where the level of risk poses a significant physical risk to staff or service users, and restrictive physical skills or manual restraint are required regularly. The level of risk posed may require the need for higher level techniques including floor or safety pod holds, seclusion, or rapid tranquillisation.
Able Target System, Positive Behavioural Support
Module 2: Personal Safety & Breakaway
For low to medium risk settings Module 2 provides personal safety strategies, non-restrictive physical skills including responsive interventions to manage big emotions and breakaway training for those who experience hazardous behaviour that poses a physical risk to staff or service user. Staff need training in personal safety, breakaway or separation techniques but should not be required to use manual restraint. (this is the maximum level for lone workers)
Mental Health, Understanding People's Needs
Understanding Mental Health & Mental Illness
An in-house training course designed to increase understanding, decrease stigma and promote and provide support for those affected by mental illness.
Moving & Handling, Train the Trainer
Moving With Safety (Including People) Train the Trainer
This two-day train the trainer course is designed to train those staff that are looking to teach Moving and Handling training in house to their staff team.
Moving & Handling
Moving People Safely
A 6 hour Moving and Handling of People course, ideal for those working in areas where the assistance and movement of people is a prerequisite part of their role.
Health & Safety, Moving & Handling
Prevention of Falls
This half day training course examines the factors that increase the likelihood of slips and falls, and explores preventative and precautionary steps to reduce the risk.
Health & Safety, Moving & Handling
Personal & Pressure Care
This 3 hour course teaches delegates about the role and responsibility of personal care, and how to recognise, manage and prevent pressure sores.
Food Safety, Health & Safety
Health & Nutrition
A 3 hour awareness course focused on the understanding of diet, nutrition and fluids, and exploring good practice methods of promoting health and good practice within the health and social care setting.
Health & Safety, Safeguarding
Record and Report Writing
This course supports staff to write and maintain appropriate and accurate records within social or health care job roles.
Understanding People's Needs
PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder)
This course explores the causes, symptoms, treatments and impact that PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) can have on people and individuals.
Food Safety, Health & Safety
Nutrition and Fluids
A 3 hour awareness course focused on the understanding of diet, nutrition and fluids, and exploring good practice methods of promoting health and good practice within the health, home or social care setting.
First Aid
Epilepsy Awareness
An awareness course delivered over a half or full day, useful for anyone with an interest or a need to better understand, support, or treat someone with epilepsy.
Personal Development, Understanding People's Needs
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
This course explores the key principles of CBT and teaches delegates about its use and methods of application.
Mental Health, Understanding People's Needs
Autism Awareness
This course helps delegates to understand autism and Asperger’s syndrome and how to help support individuals with these conditions. It explores challenging behaviour within autism and autism behaviour management strategies.
Understanding People's Needs
Dignity in Care
This course explores the drivers of dignity in care, relevant legislation, the National Dignity in Care Challenge and how dignity in care should be applied to practical issues.
Health & Safety, Positive Behavioural Support, Understanding People's Needs
Substance Misuse
The course is suitable for all carers, social workers and staff who require up to date information on drugs and alcohol issues. It explores the law and good practice guidelines as well as options for support and advice.
First Aid
CPR & AED (Defibrillator) Training
This course is recommended for first aiders in the workplace environment who have access to a defibrillator.
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