Mindfulness courses
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Free mindfulness courses are now available to help improve health and wellbeing and reduce stress. You’ll learn ways to bring mindfulness and awareness into your daily life, both within work and at home, through regular meditation and gentle movement. The sessions are run as weekly or monthly courses by the Devon Wellbeing Hub and the University of Exeter. Monthly skills class starts on Tuesday 19 October, 6.00pm – 8.00pm and runs until 24 March 2022. Weekly course starts on Wednesday...
North Devon Care Homes Team offers virtual training sessions
1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
The free sessions are open to all services in North Devon only and they run from November to the end of January. The timings vary so please check available time slots. There is a wide range of topics covered: CAUTI, constipation, diabetes part 1 and 2, end of life, nutrition and hydration, pneumonia, flu and COVID-19 awareness, pressure damage, UTIs, Restore2 and sepsis. To book a sessions please visit the North Devon Healthcare website. If you have any queries please...
Mental Health Provider Training
9:30 am - 4:30 pm
The Devon Partnership NHS Trust and Devon County Council are organising a supervision course, which will take place on Monday 29 and Tuesday 30 November. It’s a two full day course and to gain the certificate you will need to fully participate in both days. The course will cover: what is supervision, roles and responsibilities of supervision, models of supervision, tasks of supervision, barriers to supervision, benefits of good supervision listening skills, transference and countertransference, ego states, challenging conversations, issues...
Free individual employer training
12:00 am
Living Options offers free online training for individual employers or those who think about employing a personal assistant (PA), to fully grasp their role and responsibilities. The sessions will clarify your legal obligations and your PAs statutory employment rights such as notice, statutory sick pay and maternity rights, what you can do and where you should turn when things go wrong. This training session is delivered by Mark Bates, provider of Employer Liability insurance and experts in the field of...
Free personal assistant and unpaid carer training - Moving and Handling and Food Safety
12:00 am
Bespoke training (virtual and practical) is being offered by Exeter College in partnership with Devon CCG and Devon Carers. The workshops will enhance your knowledge and skills within your role and provide you with the appropriate tools to confidently and safely care for and support others within your role. The expectation is for individuals to attend the whole course. Please only book onto the session if you have not had any moving and handling training within the last 12 months....