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...
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....
FREE Practice leadership training: train the trainer
12:00 am
Plymouth City Council is asking for expressions of interest from community based providers (supported living / residential services who support people with learning disabilities) in Plymouth and Devon to put forward team or practice leaders for a new pilot programme of training that will start in January 2021 and it will take place over four separate days over four months. This is a train the trainer qualification which is delivered by Positive Behavioural Support UK (PBSUK). PBSUK has experienced behaviour...
Housing with Support provider forum
10:00 am
The Housing with Support forum meets fortnightly on Wednesdays from 10am until 11am. It‘s a chance for organisations who provide supported living, enabling, extra care, shared lives and the homeless support services that are commissioned by DCC, to get together to discuss or raise any strategic or process issues rather than individual service users issues. The main aim is to unblock any blocks we encounter when working across this market, escalate issues appropriately and basically join up our work better....
Short NHS training courses for care home and domiciliary care providers - Restore 2 Full
1:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Pop Up courses These short informative sessions have been designed and are delivered by nurses and nurse specialists to support the daily care for your clients i.e pressure ulcer prevention, catheter care, oral care, nutrition and hydration. Restore 2 has been established as a means of early detection of a resident whose condition may be deteriorating. 1) Restore 2 mini which looks at ‘soft signs’ such as increased breathlessness, a change in usual eating or drinking habits and takes just...
Discover the Adult Social Care Workforce Data set (ASCWDS)
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Join us on Wednesday 8 December from 2.00p to 3.00pm as we take a tour of the ASCWDS, how it works and its benefits to providers.