Challenging Behaviour Training for adult and child settings including Schools & Education, Foster Care, Children’s Homes, Elderly Care, Social Care & Mental Health settings.
Schools & Education Overview:
Courses include Health & Safety Training such as Fire Awareness and Fire Warden training, as well as key courses in Food Safety and Hygiene, First Aid, Safeguarding Children and personal development courses such as Equality & Diversity. Able Training also delivers training for managing aggression and managing challenging behaviour that meets standards outlined by Ofsted and follows the latest guidelines outlined by the DofE 2013 Use of reasonable force in schools.
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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.
First Aid
Level 3 Paediatric First Aid
Attendees will learn the roles and responsibilities of the paediatric first aider, and will be equipped with the necessary skills to administer safe and effective treatment when dealing with a range of paediatric first aid situations.
Understanding People's Needs
Therapeutic Parenting
Our Therapeutic Parenting Course is aimed at Parents and Supporting Professionals that want to learn the core principles of Therapeutic Parenting.
Understanding People's Needs
Pathological Demand Avoidance (PDA)
Learn support structures and effective strategies to aid young children and adolescents with the Pathological demand avoidance (PDA).
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.
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
Prevent Training & Anti-radicalisation Awareness
This 4 hour training session is a proactive step to demonstrating the commitment of a workplace towards their Prevent duty.
Understanding People's Needs
Managing Allegations
This course explores the challenges associated with allegations and complaints against those that care for children and clearly outlines the processes and procedures that should be taken.
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.
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 & 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.
Safeguarding
Online & Internet Safety
This course helps individuals working with children to be up-to-speed with the on-line threats faced by looked after children.
Personal Development, Understanding People's Needs
Basic Counselling Skills Course
This course explores the key skills used in counselling that are also invaluable to any person in a helping relationship.
Understanding People's Needs
Understanding Self Harm
This course explores what self-harm is, who does it and how to recognise potential signs.
Positive Behavioural Support, Understanding People's Needs
Attachment Awareness
An introductory training course that outlines a basic understanding of what attachment is, and how it may impact on the relationships and behaviour of children within a care setting environment.
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.
Safeguarding
Managing Safeguarding Children
An advanced, in-depth course on child safeguarding, aimed at learners who have prior safeguarding knowledge or experience.
Safeguarding
Designated Safeguarding Lead
An advanced, 6 hour course designed for those who have some previous knowledge and experience in safeguarding.
First Aid, Health & Safety, Managing Challenging Behaviour, Understanding People's Needs
Ligature Awareness & Protocol
This half day course is designed to give staff skills and confidence to reduce, assess, manage and treat incidents of ligature.
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.
Conflict Management, Managing Challenging Behaviour
Challenging Behaviour in Schools
This course for staff in schools and child care settings explores the ability to resolve conflict through interpersonal skills rather than force.
Conflict Management, Managing Challenging Behaviour
Challenging Behaviour in Child Care
This course explores the causes and strategies for identifying and managing challenging behaviours in children to create win-win outcomes.
Able Target System, Managing Aggression, Physical Intervention, PMVA & MVA
PMVA Prevention and Management of Violence and Aggression
This course explores the six stages of managing aggression and challenging behaviour including physical and non-physical defence strategies suitable to the NHS. Includes advanced physical intervention skills.
Understanding People's Needs
Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE) Awareness Training
This half-day or one-day course equips parents, carers and teachers to identify and act on the signs of child sexual exploitation.
First Aid
Emergency First Aid at Work for Schools
Covering all Emergency First Aid at Work areas plus asthma and anaphylaxis, this course enables the delegate to act as a first-aider within their school.
First Aid
Emergency Paediatric First Aid Level 3
Theoretical and practical training in First Aid techniques specific to infants aged 0 to 1, and children aged from 1 year old to the onset of puberty.
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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