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Improving communication, improving lives
Improving communication, improving lives: how professionals should talk to the people they support
In this webinar, Alexis Quinn, autistic woman and author; Dr Jeremy Tudway, Clinical Director for Dimensions, and Max Green, Ambassador for the National Autistic Society, talk about how communication is key to providing good care to people with a learning disability and/or autism. It looks at how professionals communicate with the people they are supporting, what they do and don’t say, and how they say it.
Speakers: Alexis Quinn, Dr Jeremy Tudway and Max Green
Recorded: 10 February 2022
Price: Free
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A webinar from Pavilion Health and Social Care
This webinar will promote an understanding of people’s belief systems rather than a mechanistic approach to mental health services and proves the increasing importance of spirituality in health and social care.
Speakers: Sarajane Aris, Dr Hilary Garraway, Hannah Gilbert & Zenobia Nadirshaw
Recorded: 17th February 2022
Did you miss the event? You can still sign-up and watch the replay!
Related material
Mental Health, Spirituality and Wellbeing:
A Handbook for Health and Social Care Professionals, Service Users and Carers
Handbook
A ground-breaking handbook exploring the nature of spirituality and its relevance to the mental health and well-being of people coming into contact with health, social care, education and allied support services. Particularly relevant in these covid-19 times, it incorporates the perspectives and experience of over 35 leading academics and practitioners in the field.
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Training the trainers
A course for use in educational, community and secure settings to assist in
successful transition from childhood to adulthood
NEW
Online training course
This engaging Training the Trainers course is designed to equip health, education and social care staff with the confidence, skill and enthusiasm to run sessions on developing personal and social skills (PSS) with young people and adults with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND). It is designed to support the use of the following published resource, although will be of benefit to those who are designing or using other resources to deliver PSS:
Developing Personal and Social Skills for Young People and Adults with SEND. A course for use in educational, community and secure settings to assist in successful transition from childhood to adulthood by Sue Sutton
Sue Sutton, who developed the PSS course, takes you step-by-step through preparing and running effective and enjoyable sessions.
Inspiration
Access
Is available 24/7 through “My Account” once registered
Learn
In the time that best suits you!
Track progress
Print out and revisit course work any time
Achieve
Certificate of completion
About the course
A short Training the Trainers course that can be used by individuals, pairs or small groups to develop skills and confidence in running personal and social skills programmes with young people and adults with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) in a wide range of settings.
The course is divided into 5 themed sessions that can be explored during one full day, or in smaller time slots:
- Preparation
- Respect and rules
- Assertiveness and independence
- Feelings and relationships
- Making plans
Anyone planning to run PSS courses with adults and young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND). Typically, this would include:
- teachers, experienced teaching assistants and support assistants in schools and colleges especially those with experience of SEND
- staff who work with adults and young people with learning (intellectual) disabilities, autism, mental health issues or emotional and behavioural difficulties
- staff who are concerned with transition from child to adult services
- psychology trainees and occupational therapists
- probation officers and those working with offenders in mental health units or young offender units and prisons
- experienced staff working in day centres and community placements.
Ideally, a course leader and co-leader would work through the Training the Trainers course together to maximise the effectiveness of their delivery of PSS training.
Sue Sutton has 50 years’ experience in the field of learning disabilities (intellectual disability) and mental health. She is a qualified and experienced teacher with specialist qualifications in special educational needs and disabilities (SEND). She has worked with children, young people and adults within the educational and health sectors. Sue also trained as a voluntary alcohol counsellor and completed 2 years of Transactional Analysis Psychotherapy training. For 21 years she managed an education department in an NHS medium secure unit, devising and delivering programmes for men with a learning disability sectioned under the Mental Health Act. Her particular strengths lay in delivering personal and social skills within a secure setting. Using her educational and therapeutic experience she devised a comprehensive PSE course which was so successful that she was asked to run workshops at conferences and training events for health, criminal justice and educational staff. This encouraged Sue to qualify as a trainer of teachers in the post 16 sector of SEND. Her experience with young people and adults with SEND has convinced her of the need for more help and guidance in the difficult task of transitioning to adulthood. Wanting to pass on her own knowledge and experience she has published the pack Developing personal and social skills for young people and adults with SEND (Pavilion Publishing & Media, 2020). Other publications include “Living fulfilled lives – empowering people with learning disabilities” (Sarah Grace Publishing, 2018), as well as conference papers and blogs.
Throughout the course, there are opportunities for the learner to reflect on their learning experiences and to log these online or offline. These can be reviewed and edited at any time.
If a trainer or assessor is involved, they can be given appropriate access to view completed participant’s coursework that is stored within the group.
Group discounts for 3 or more participants are available.
Please enquire and provide us with further details.
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Developing Personal and Social Skills course pack
This course pack is based on and used for working with clients directly and was the inspiration for the online course. This course pack is a great addition to the above online course and can be ordered directly from Pavilion Publishing.
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A strengths-based approach integrating body, mind and spirit within the wider context
- Strengths-based – exploring a person’s purpose and potential as well as their problems. Helping people to reconnect with their goals, values, sense of purpose and meaning in their life. Developing a person not just solving a problem.
- Integrating body, mind and spirit – Whole-person approach which explores spirituality and more focus on physicality of a person. Recognising a client’s spirituality as a resource for recovery and recognising an interconnectivity beyond the self.
- Contextual– seeing a person in their context of environmental, cultural, spiritual and social influences so that psychological difficulties are not seen as only due to internal factors such as unhelpful thoughts.
Of benefit to: Mental health professionals, psychotherapists and CBT practitioners in the full range of mental health services. Those with knowledge of CBT and groupwork in non-clinical settings including faith leaders, chaplains and those working in homelessness, drug and alcohol, recovery colleges and other services.
Dr Hilary Garraway
Dr Hilary Garraway is an experienced consultant clinical psychologist and BABCP accredited CBT therapist, supervisor and trainer. She has over thirty years of therapy experience in various settings and is currently working full time as an adult psychology lead in Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health Trust. Before that she worked in Early Intervention in Psychosis teams as well as having a successful private practice. Hilary has trained in person-centred art therapy, ecotherapy and therapeutic creative writing. Hilary also trained as an adult education teacher and is an honorary lecturer at University College London, University of Hertfordshire and King’s College London. Hilary is a trustee of the Whole Person Health Trust which seeks to promote a more holistic approach to medical care. She is trained as a spiritual director and has an interest in contemplative spirituality and is the former chair of the National Spirituality and Mental Health Forum and former British Psychological Society spirituality lead.
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Free to be Me
Holistic Cognitive Behaviour Therapy
This course manual provides the guidance and resources needed to run an Holistic Cognitive Behaviour Therapy ‘Free to be Me’ course with individuals or groups, including clinical and non-clinical populations.
Free to be Me
Companion book
Holistic CBT is explained as a new strengths-based, solution-focused and creative model, exploring people’s identity and potential within their individual context, and recognising a body-mind-spirit link.
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Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Journal Interactive Talk
In this session, Dr Nic Hooper and Dr Olivia Donnelly will introduce you to their Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) Journal. They will describe the personal journeys that led them to ACT as well as a brief description of the ACT model and how it helps individuals flourish, whatever their circumstances. They will walk you through the structure of their journal and how you can use it to make lasting change towards what matters. And finally, there will be time for questions.
Recorded: Wednesday 31st March 2021
Presenters
Dr Nic Hooper
Dr Nic Hooper is an expert in clinical psychology and a Senior Lecturer at the University of the West of England in Bristol. He has authored many scientific articles, book chapters and books including The Research Journey of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and The Unbreakable Student. Nic is a co-director of Connect (which is an organisation that offers a psychological wellbeing curriculum for primary school children) and also co-wrote both the popular annual ACT Diary and the newly created 12-week ACT Journal.
Dr Olivia Donnelly
Dr Olivia Donnelly is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist. Olivia is passionate about using ACT to help people with physical conditions to live as well as possible, as well as providing supervision and training to health professionals. Her role within the NHS is increasingly focused on ways to support the wellbeing of colleagues as they provide skilled and compassionate care. She has a particular interest in practical, values-based approaches to promoting wellbeing within individuals, teams, and across organisations, based on the foundation that ‘resilience is between us, not just within us’.
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Online training course
An essential training and development course for frontline health and social care staff to become effective leaders through a simple but powerful framework.
This course will develop your skills on how best to increase the positive influence that frontline staff can have on their teams and work environment and quality of care. Well-known trainer and author of this course, Paul Whitby, provides you with the path to good care leadership.
Available now
“The training is very engaging with good use of exercises/ activities.
Course includes handouts and case studies which provides opportunities for learners
to gain greater understanding of the subject and increase knowledge retention.”
Assessor, CPD Certification Service
Group discounts for 3 or more participants are available. Please enquire and provide us with further details.
Timing
Five sessions, each takes about 3 hours
Good frontline leadership is vital to improving morale and care quality in health and social care teams. This is never more important than at a time when services are so stretched and having to adapt quickly to changes in procedures and practice. Good leadership promotes effective response and guards against poor care, neglect and abuse that may occur within inpatient and residential health and social care settings. Most leadership training approaches stress having good clinical skills but pay little heed to how best to increase the positive influence that frontline staff can have on their teams and work environment. This essential training and development course addresses that need through a straightforward and powerful leadership framework.
The simplicity and effectiveness of the approach comes from careful analysis of poor care and ways to prevent it happening, and a distillation of the theories of good care leadership, based on psychology, psychotherapy and nursing studies. Its flexibility means that it can be used for group training or for individual leadership development.
The content of Good Care Leadership covers aspects of the following SfC modules:
- Leadership Qualities Framework: Demonstrating personal qualities; Working
- with others; Managing services (Managing people and managing performance);
- Improving services (Encouraging improvement, facilitating transformation)
- Managing People: Building resilience; Code of Conduct; Developing your staff;
- People performance; Supervision
- Transforming Care: Set the right culture and values; Workforce development
- Leadership Starts With Me – entire unit
1. Respect for frontline care staff
The whole course is based on the notion that the people best placed to improve care in hospitals, homes and other service settings are already working in them. These are the people with the knowledge, skills and values who have the potential to really make things happen. Their hard work and dedication are rarely recognised. Also, they have great potential for development if only they are given the right environment to flourish.
2. Attending to solutions and strengths
is far more helpful than focussing on weaknesses and mistakes. Frontline care professionals are always trying their best and much of the time they are doing well. Criticising them for being less than perfect is likely to lead to demoralisation and resentment. Instead, on this course we look at people’s strengths and what they are doing right. Paying attention to what works and doing more of it is a very practical approach.
3. Culture matters at least as much as personality
Whilst ‘character’ is important in caring it is also essential that all professionals are surrounded by an environment, a ‘culture’, that nurtures their good practice and makes it natural for them to perform at their best. Fortunately, part of the situation is directly under the influence of frontline staff, especially the leader. This is the emotional and psychological culture of the workplace. All staff in a care home, on a ward or other service setting contribute to their workplace culture and can help make it more positive and supportive. Whilst it is usual for the more senior staff to have the most influence it is clear that junior staff can also be important influencers too.
See “Course content” for the complete syllabus.
CPD accredited, the course will enable frontline leaders in all service settings to:
- demonstrate increased self-confidence and competence in the exercise of leadership
- promote the articulation and practice of caring values
- use authority and power in an appropriate and effective way
- motivate others in their team.
This is a course about developing ‘soft’ skills, so it does not contain a lot of content to be learned and tested. While there are review quizzes to assess your knowledge gains in Sessions 3 and 4*, most of the course activities are reflective, providing an opportunity for you to explore your self, your strengths and your practice as an actual or potential leader. You may wish to ‘buddy’ up with a colleague to share and discuss the outcomes of these reflections, or bring them into the supervision process through discussion with your line manager. If you are undertaking this course as a team, you could build in team sharing and discussion at the end of each session.
The main opportunity to put
your online learning into practice is through Session 5: Project – Putting It Into Practice. Here you will be able to take your learning and create a leadership project in a real world setting. You will need to build in an opportunity to ‘report back’ on your project and the way you do this will vary, depending on whether you are working as an individual or as part of a team undertaking the course.
Upon completion of this course, you will also receive a downloadable CPD certificate
This course will be of benefit to any frontline health or care professional who has a leadership or supervisory role over other staff members.
In nursing and residential care homes, supported living and other supported settings for people with learning disabilities, autistic people, older people, those with mental health needs or disabilities, this would include:
- Nursing and care home managers
- Shift leaders
- Nurses
- Senior care workers
- Senior support staff and team leaders.
In hospitals, clinics and other healthcare settings this would include:
- Modern matrons
- Ward managers
- Staff nurses
- Doctors
- Other clinical and allied professionals
- Social workers
- Clinical and health psychologists
Links to other qualifications and standards
Skills for Care
The Care Certificate and Levels 3 & 4 Diplomas in Care contain units with the theme of Personal Development and Values.
The Level 5 Diploma in Leadership and Management in Adult Care units in the areas of DILMAC 1A & B, Leadership and Management, DILMAC 4A Relationships and partnership working, DILMAC 5C Continuous improvement, DILMAC 6A & B Professional development, supervision and performance management, DILMAC 9A Managing self.
The content of Good Care Leadership covers aspects of the following SfC modules:
- Leadership Qualities Framework: Demonstrating personal qualities; Working with others; Managing services (Managing people and managing performance); Improving services (Encouraging improvement, facilitating transformation)
- Managing People: Building resilience; Code of Conduct; Developing your staff; People performance; Supervision
- Transforming Care: Set the right culture and values; Workforce development
- Leadership Starts With Me – entire unit
The NHS Knowledge and Skills Framework dimensions
- Personal and people development
- Service Improvement
- Quality
The NHS Leadership Academy dimensions
- Inspiring shared purpose
- Leading with care
- Sharing the vision
- Engaging the team
- Holding to account
- Influencing for results
Registered Nurse revalidation
Good Care Leadership is particularly suited to the compulsory nursing revalidation process for all qualified nurses. As well as being a form of CPD, as a reflective development process it is an excellent basis for the requirements for written reflective accounts and the requirement to have had reflective discussions. The course is relevant to the NMC Code, Section 25 Leadership. The Values exercises directly relate to The NMC Code of ethical practice.
The course comprises video presentations by the author followed by exercises and quizzes that can be carried out individually or as teams both online and offline.
An end-of-course project prompts learners to put leadership knowledge and skills into practice in a real-world setting.
Each of the five sessions takes between 2.5–3 hours, so the total time required for the course is approximately two days, plus time involved in executing a work-based project planned in Session 5. There is also a need for a follow-up session for reporting on the projects; this will need to be arranged according to local needs and according to whether the course is being undertaken by an individual, a team or an organisation.
Trainers and assessors are able to access the students’ work within their accounts and add comments. This includes completed and uploaded handout exercise sheets, quizzes and end-of-session reflections.
This online learning is applicable to organisational and team development in a wide range of settings, for example:
- Managers of a learning disability service could use the course with senior carers to develop their leadership potential in transforming existing provision.
- Managers or senior carers in a care home for older people could use it to develop their staff in order to boost morale and improve quality of care.
- An NHS Trust Training Department could use it to bring staff from many wards together for a large training exercise to ensure that leadership skills are widely cultivated throughout the Trust.
About the author
Paul Whitby, was formerly a psychiatric nurse and is now a clinical psychologist. He contributes to the Bath University Clinical Psychology course and the Aneurin Bevan NHS Trust management development course. He started his career as a psychiatric nurse and for a while was a Charge Nurse at the Bethlem Royal Hospital before completing his Clinical Psychology training.
Throughout his clinical psychology career, Paul has worked on wards alongside the nursing staff. He believes that his experiences have given him a unique insight into the problem of variability in the quality of care offered in different care homes and wards, why some places succeed and other do not.
Paul has been involved in training at various levels for many clinical disciplines in the NHS. He is also a trustee of a local dementia charity. He edits the Faculty of the Psychology of Older People Bulletin (a British Psychological Society periodical).
Course access
Is available 24/7 through “My Account” once registered
Group access
Group licensing available
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