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.
Social Care Day of Remembrance and Reflection
All Day
The COVID-19 pandemic has been difficult for everyone, and particularly those working to protect Devon’s most vulnerable residents. As the second anniversary of the first lockdown approaches, the Social Care Day of Remembrance and Reflection on Thursday 17 March gives us the opportunity to honour the vital work the social care sector has done to keep people safe and well, and to remember the people working in social care who we have sadly lost during pandemic. People in Devon are encouraged to...
Grey Matter Learning eLearning Demo
10:00 am - 11:00 am
Join the demo session on 17/03/2022 @ 10am Devon County Council has funded eLearning platform for one year for all social care providers. To find out more and see how the platform works, join us at the demo. Follow the link to book your place. Click on the event and fill in the contact us form and ask for an invite to the demo session.
Hope Programme for people living with long COVID
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Places are available on the digital HOPE programme for people living with Long Covid starting on Thursday 17 March at 12noon. Course duration: 8 weeks. It takes about one hour to complete each weekly session, which you can complete at any time which is convenient to you. The free course enables patients to meet other people and try different tools to help them manage and cope better. More information is available on the flyer. Book your place on one of...