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...
Free personal assistant, domiciliary care and unpaid carers training
12:00 am
Exeter College is proud to deliver workshops that 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 workshops will be delivered via a blended approach of face-to-face and virtual workshops. On successful completion, you will achieve the following: • Caring Careers Certificate • Level 2 Food Safety Award Qualification - City and Guilds • Introduction to Manual handling of people...
Free Personal Assistants & Unpaid Carers Training
All Day
Free Training offer with Exeter College through The Health and Social Care Skills Accelerator Programme – Part ESF Funded Funded Personal Assistants, Unpaid Carers and Domiciliary Care Training Delivery: Virtual and face-to-face. Duration: 9 hours over 4 weeks (including workshop dates) Start Dates (please choose one): Tuesday 1st March Tuesday 3rd May Workshop Dates (please choose one): Thursday 31st March 9am - 12pm Thursday 26th May 9am - 12pm What will you learn? Exeter College is proud to deliver an...
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...
Free Leadership Development Workshop: Performance Management Strategies
1:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Develop your understanding of performance management and learn about best practice tools to manage performance throughout your workforce lifecycle. Explore typical areas of staff underperformance and learn how to uncover the key issues. Understand how your own style and behaviour impacts on your staff and develop plans to create solid performance management plans. Book on this free workshop today.
Team leader and leadership workshops
1:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Aimed at new team leaders or staff who are soon to take on more responsibility and make that transition into managing others. Developing person-centred practice for positive outcomes: 15 March, 1.30pm - 4.30pm Managing yourself and your wellbeing: 8 March, 1.30pm - 4.30pm Book on the leadership development workshops ideal for managers and those in positions of authority who would like to focus on their own leadership and management skills. Performance Management Strategies: 1 March,1.30pm - 4.30pm Organisational Culture and...