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...
Glove Awareness Week 2022
12:00 am
Glove Awareness Week 2022 will take place between 2 - 6 May and this year the focus is on how reducing unnecessary glove use can help make health care more sustainable. Unsurprisingly, the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has led to a huge increase in the number of gloves being used. In the last year alone, 5.5 billion gloves were used in the NHS and social care in England. When used correctly, gloves are a vital piece of PPE equipment, however there...
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...
Managers Employee Assistant Programme Awareness Session
9:30 am - 10:00 am
We would like to invite you to an awareness session all about the Employee Assistant Programme CiC. All adult social care providers in Devon can now access the employee assistant programme. Free and confidential information, support and counselling service - available 24 hours 7 days a week 365 days a year. We are running 30-minute sessions from May to July so please share with colleagues and your team. 4th May - Managers EAP Awareness Session, 9:30 am to 10:00 am and...
Housing with Support provider forum
10:00 am - 11:00 am
The Housing with Support forum meets fortnightly on Wednesdays from 10.00am until 11.00am. It‘s a chance for organisations who provide supported living, enabling, extra care, shared lives and the homeless support services that are commissioned by DCC, to get together to discuss or raise any strategic or process issues rather than individual service users issues. The main aim is to unblock any blocks we encounter when working across this market, escalate issues appropriately and basically join up our work better....
Makaton Taster session
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
This two hour face to face session will help you to develop basic skills in Makaton. It is suitable for parents, carers or those interested in learning a new skill. It is at Petrocs North Devon Campus. Please email HSSAP@petroc.ac.uk to book a space.
Managers Employee Assistant Programme Awareness Session
3:00 pm - 3:30 pm
We would like to invite you to an awareness session all about the Employee Assistant Programme CiC. All adult social care providers in Devon can now access the employee assistant programme. Free and confidential information, support and counselling service - available 24 hours 7 days a week 365 days a year. We are running 30-minute sessions from May to July so please share with colleagues and your team. 4th May - Managers EAP Awareness Session, 9:30 am to 10:00 am and...