Royal Devon University NHS Foundation Trust Education for Care Providers
Free education sessions available to care settings and providers in North, Mid, East Devon and Exeter. Education packages link with current legislation and guidelines and are reviewed continually by the educators. Our education packages strive to be inclusive, interactive, and accessible for all.
Education is provided with sessions offered to complement the existing training already provided by the care setting or provider, and adapted to meet the needs of those attending. Alike to safeguarding support, education is part of every clinician’s role.
The team are made up of; Nurses, Occupational Therapists, Assistant Practitioner and a Secretary based across Eastern and Northern Community Services with a focus of education and supporting safeguarding processes.
Royal Devon Speech and Language Team & Referral UPDATE
The Royal Devon speech and language therapy service (Eastern) are changing the way we manage our referrals slightly. This is in response to an increased demand on our service and subsequently increased waiting times in recent years which is meaning that some people are waiting much longer than we would want to be helped.
Please continue to refer to us in the usual way. If the difficulties described are relatively straightforward, we will ask you to complete our ‘Eating and Drinking Good Practice Guidelines’ as a first step in supporting your resident with eating and drinking. Please take some time to work through this guideline (we suggest 7-10 days) as it may be that these suggestions are sufficient in supporting your resident to eat and drink more comfortably and easily. These completed guidelines can also be added to your resident’s care plan to demonstrate liaison with the speech and language therapy service.
If after completing it you still feel that a referral is required, please return the completed ‘ Eating and Drinking Good Practice Guidelines’, detailing the changes that you have trialled with your resident with the outcome of these, together with a new referral form. This is helpful in supporting our prioritisation process. Thank you for your support with this!
Speech and Language Team: 01392 402489 and rduh.Therapyservices@nhs.net
Falls Prevention and Awareness
We are offering free education on Falls Prevention & Awareness for Care Homes and providers. This education will include: –
- How to identify a resident at risk of falling
- What actions should be taken to reduce their risk of falling
- If someone fell, which service is appropriate?
- Signposting to services & useful resources
- Safe floor retrieval
- We will also include a Falls Resource Pack for your setting.
To book face to face education please complete the digital booking form
Pressure Ulcer Prevention
Presentation discussing Pressure Ulcer Prevention covering the following topics.
- Structure Function – Skin
- What is a Pressure Ulcer?
- What are Moisture Lesions?
- Prevention of Pressure Ulcers and Moisture Lesions
- Documentation / Reporting
Book here to attend Pressure Ulcer Prevention training
Restore2
- RESTORE2 stands for: Recognise Early Soft-signs, Take Observations, Respond, Escalate. Training to ALL Care Providers in North, Exeter, Mid and East Devon. The training will be offered either virtually, via MS Teams, or face to face Contact rduh.CommunityEducationAssuranceTeam@nhs.net for more information. Interested in the training? Fill in the Pre Training Assessment.
- RESTORE2 mini – For care professionals designed to support them recognise soft signs and escalate concerns of a deteriorating patient using SBARD. Eastern Care Services Team offer sessions either virtually, via MS Teams, or face to face. Contact rduh.CommunityEducationAssuranceTeam@nhs.net for more information. Interested in the training? Fill in the Pre Training Assessment.
Sepsis Awareness
Presentation covering the following learning objectives and is linked with the RESTORE2 education
- What Sepsis Is?
- To describe what happens in the body when sepsis is progressing
- To be aware of the signs and symptoms of sepsis and know what to do if you suspect it
Book here to attend online education
Book here for face-to-face education
Nutrition
Intake of good nutrition is a fundamental part of everyday life but can often be challenging. The impact of poor nutrition has far reaching effects on quality of life and overall health.
The education is aimed at care staff to give practical guidance on how to support clients maintain optimum dietary intake. It covers recognising signs and symptoms, prevention of and improvement of malnutrition and includes recognising problems with swallowing, referral to speech and language therapy and the IDDSI framework
Book here for face-to-face education
Hydration
Intake of good hydration is a fundamental part of everyday life but can often be challenging. The impact of poor hydration has far reaching effects on quality of life and overall health.
The education is aimed at care staff to give practical guidance on how to support clients maintain optimum fluid intake. It covers recognising signs and symptoms, prevention of and improvement of malnutrition and includes recognising problems with swallowing, referral to speech and language therapy and the IDDSI framework
Book here for face-to-face education
Infection Prevention and Control
The Community Infection Management Service, based in Exeter, is offering free Infection Prevention sessions for care homes, supported living and domiciliary providers.
Aimed as a supplement to your annual update training, the sessions include content on the following:
- The chain of infection
- The implementation of standard precautions
- Information about notable infections
- Winter readiness
- Outbreak scenarios
You can book onto this training, which is offered once a month through this link.
Antimicrobial Stewardship and You
The Community Infection Management Service, based in Exeter, is offering free sessions exploring antimicrobial stewardship and the care of people known to have infection due to an antibiotic resistant organism or who have had once in the past.
Aimed as an introductory session to the topic, the session includes content on the following:
- Why it is vital that antibiotics are preserved for the future
- Members of the public and professional roles in antibiotic stewardship
- Care of people known to carry antibiotic resistant infections, such as MRSA and C.difficile
- How we can limit the impact of antibiotic resistant organisms through our practice
- How well collected specimens support antibiotic use
You can book onto this training, which is offered approximately every two months, through this link.
Unfortunately, for the time being, we are unable to offer face to face delivery for this session.
Outbreak workshops
The Community Infection Management Service based in Eastern Devon is pleased to be able to offer its care home settings workshops lasting about 75 minutes focusing on the practical management of outbreaks.
Groups of up to 6 staff are invited to choose one of the following outbreak scenarios which are then worked through in a dynamic, home specific way.
- Norovirus
- Influenza/COVID-19
- Scabies
- Group A Streptococcus
If you are interested in this type of training, please contact the Eastern CIMS team and you will be contacted about booking a date in due course. rduh.infectioncontrol-eastern@nhs.net
Other Education Available
Posture Care- Including Seating and Repositioning
Independent Living Centre offer education sessions on this topic. Please email ilc-exeter@devon.gov.uk
Some of the topics covered in this session are:
- What is Posture and why it is important
- What are the Risks
- What can we do to prevent body shape changes?
Continence Management
- This covers practical and equipment solutions to support continence. Independent Living Centre offer education sessions on this topic. Please email ilc-exeter@devon.gov.uk
Dementia Care
- Alzheimer’s Society, a range of information services, resources and specialist training for health and social care professionals working with people who have dementia.
eLearning
Devon County Council have partnered with Flourish previously called Grey Matter Learning to provide part funded social care courses for all providers in the Devon catchment area, this is 2/3 funded. The platform allows users access to over 130 social care eLearning courses, all in one place! To sign up for an account, please contact the team. Select contact us and fill in the required details and add that you would like an account under the Devon County Council funding. A member of the team will then be in touch with you to set up an account.
Oral Health
The oral health improvement team are offering Free training! They provide training to care workers responsible for the oral health of both children and adults. Training takes 1-2½ hours (bespoke to suit your needs) Tooth brushing demos provided, CPD certificates are issued upon completion, contact the team to find out more information and book your training session. Tel: 01392 05705 or email rduh.ohesds@nhs.net
Oral Health Improvement cover in this session:
- Why oral health is important
- Toothbrushing
- Identifying tooth decay and gum disease
- The signs and symptoms of gum disease
- Tooth decay and oral cancer
- Diet
- End of life and oral care
- Oral care plans
- CQC requirements and accessing dental care.
Quality Assurance and Improvement Team
The Quality Assurance and Improvement Team at Devon County Council offers a free support service which includes:
- Helping you to identify the reason(s) for any non-compliance following a CQC Inspection and supporting you to develop an action plan to enable you to return to compliance
- Helping to identify where systems and processes are not effective and where improvements can be made
- Providing you with supportive resources, advice, guidance and information on improving quality in all aspects of your service provision
- Supporting you to develop and implement an effective quality assurance programme that will provide long term benefits in maintaining the quality of your service
- Prioritised referrals to leadership and management development training