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...
Institute of Health and Social Care Management: Wellbeing Festival
All Day
The Institute of Health and Social Care Management invite you to attend their Wellbeing Festival 7th-13th February 2022. This event is free and open to members and non-members, and features sessions designed for managers and leaders. Register for the whole week of activities with one registration. You will receive all the links you need to join each of the sessions taking place across the week: IHSCM Workforce Wellbeing Festival 7th-11th Feb 2022 Tickets, Mon 7 Feb 2022 at 08:00 |...
Race Equality Week
12:00 am
It’s Race Equality Week this week (from Monday 7 to Sunday 13 February). The week is an annual, nationwide movement of individuals and organisations which aims to address barriers to race equality in the workplace and act as a catalyst for ongoing change. We are committed to becoming an anti-racist organisation and Race Equality Week provides a good opportunity to remind colleagues about our Anti-Racism Commitment, which was endorsed by Leadership Group in October 2021. Find out more on Inside...
Wellbeing Festival from Monday 7 to Sunday 13 February
12:00 am
The Institute of Health and Social Care Management invites you to attend their Wellbeing Festival from Monday 7 to Sunday 13 February. This event is free and open to members and non-members, and features sessions designed for managers and leaders. This festival is an opportunity to explore skills, best practice solutions, and resources for individual and team wellbeing. Register for the sessions.
Free individual employer training
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
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...
Six free training courses for PA’s now available - Employer Training
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Living Options runs free training for personal assistants. The courses are both on and offline, funded by the Skills for Care, and are free to attend for personal assistants in Devon, Torbay and Plymouth area. The courses run January to March 2022. To find out more about each course and book your place please follow this link or select from the bullet point list below. You can sign up for as many of the courses as you like. Disability Awareness...
National Apprenticeship Week - "Build the Future" (Healthcare Science)
11:00 am - 1:00 pm
Come and join our celebration of apprenticeships in health and care across the South West! Celebrate success, be inspired, look to the future, share and learn from best practice Meet fantastic apprentices and employers Find out more about apprenticeships and apprenticeship pathways Explore the benefits apprenticeships bring to apprentices, employers and patients Register here to attend as many of the different sessions as you wish. A key part of each event will be hearing from you and your apprentices. If...
Short NHS training courses for care home and domiciliary care providers - Restore 2 Mini
1:30 pm - 2:30 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...
National Apprenticeship Week - "Build the Future" (Advanced Practice)
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Come and join our celebration of apprenticeships in health and care across the South West! Celebrate success, be inspired, look to the future, share and learn from best practice Meet fantastic apprentices and employers Find out more about apprenticeships and apprenticeship pathways Explore the benefits apprenticeships bring to apprentices, employers and patients Register here to attend as many of the different sessions as you wish. A key part of each event will be hearing from you and your apprentices. If...