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 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...
Digital basics and using social media to boost recruitment
All Day
Skills for Care is offering three workshops on different areas of digital basics and social media to improve digital skills and help social care employers boost recruitment. The sessions will be run with colleagues from Barclays. Book your place here. The three different workshops are: Using Facebook, WhatsApp and Twitter to boost recruitment Introduction to Instagram and LinkedIn Getting to grips with digital basics You can attend whichever sessions you choose, and there is no obligation to attend all three. Please...
NCF managers conference, supported by Skills for Care
All Day
NCF managers conference, supported by Skills for Care Monday 14 and Tuesday 15 March 2022 The National Care Forum (NCF) managers conference, supported by Skills for Care, is open to managers from all care settings across the country, both NCF members and non-members. The conference aims to provide support to managers as their services move from crisis to recovery and help them to support their teams to build resilience for the years ahead. It will be a great opportunity for...
Nutrition and Hydration week: Monday 14 - Sunday 20 March
12:00 am
Nutrition and Hydration week is an annual event. Its purpose is to bring people together to create energy, focus and fun in order to highlight and educate people on the value of food and drink in maintaining health and wellbeing in health and social care. Organisations from around the world and from all areas of health and social care take part, and new organisations are welcome to join in the fun.
Free Team Leader Education Workshop: Developing person-centred practice for positive outcomes
1:30 pm - 4:30 pm
We know and understand the importance of person-centred care and practice but what further aspects can we focus on to ensure we deliver this all-important level care? Within this session we shall be drilling down into exactly what person- centred care means, not only for the clients and their families but also for the providers of that care. We shall be looking into the accessibility of information, the legislative aspects of diversity, equality, inclusion, and human rights within the care...
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...