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...
Mental health training programme
9:30 am - 4:30 pm
Two day supervision course for social care providers The course will provide the opportunity for individuals to develop their own individual style of practicing as a supervisor. It is aimed at staff working within the helping professions of mental health and learning disability. The course will provide the opportunity to consider many of the challenges that emerge in practice within current supervision practice. To gain the certificate you will need to fully participate in both days. The course aims to...
Free Leadership Development Workshop: Digital Business & New Technologies
1:30 pm - 4:30 pm
In this session you will learn how technology can be used to underpin service delivery and the ways it can improve communication and productivity throughout the organisation. You will develop an awareness of the range of assistive technologies available and ways to improve digital accessibility for clients and staff. Book on this workshop today!
Latest staff testing changes and webinar invitation
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
As mentioned in yesterday’s PEN Newsletter, as the country moves from Plan B with the removal of restrictions, there are changes to the testing guidance for all adult social care providers. From Wednesday 16 February there will be an enhanced testing regime of pre-shift LFDs for all staff on each of the days they are working, and the removal of the weekly asymptomatic PCR testing for staff. There will be no change in PCR testing for staff symptomatic testing, or...