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...
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.
Devon Communities Together wants to hear from voluntary organisations
10:00 am - 1:00 pm
We are inviting voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) organisations and community groups in Devon to complete a short questionnaire and find out more / have your say at FREE online health inequalities sessions. • Friday 25 February, 10.00am - 1.00pm • Tuesday 8 March, 2.00pm - 5.00pm • Wednesday 16 March, 10.00am - 1.00pm To book your place go to Eventbright. Alternatively you can fill in this five minute survey.
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 training - addressing Health Inequalities
12:45 pm - 4:30 pm
NHS Devon LeDeR team invite you to attend the addressing health inequalities event being held at Buckfast Abbey on Wednesday 16 March, 12.45pm - 4.30pm. There will be exciting guest speakers and presentations covering topics identified by LeDeR as needing service improvement with a focus on improving care and experience for people living with a learning disability, autism, or both. Book now using the following link. A free lunch will be included. The afternoon will cover three topics – Constipation,...
Free Leadership Development Workshop: Organisational Culture & Change Management
1:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Gain awareness of the importance of culture in the organisation and the impact that change has on staff. Learn about models of change that will help you to develop programmes of change to build resilient teams. Find out how to best support both experienced and inexperienced staff through change and ways to gain highly performing teams. 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...