One and Two Day Courses
Please see below for an 'at a glance' guide to the range of one and two days courses that are available to commission.
Dementia Care: Induction Skills
Introduction to Dementia
Course Aim: This course aims to provide participants with the basic knowledge and skills to provide person-centred care to people living with dementia. Participants will be encouraged to outline the key features of dementia, the most common types and to relate what they have learnt to the lived experience of people living with dementia.
Positive Communication Skills
Course Aim: This course aims to enable participants to consider the different ways in which people living with dementia communicate and the importance of positive interaction. Participants will be encouraged to explore ways to communicate with people living with dementia which recognise their communication abilities and needs.
The Person Centred Approach
Course Aim: This course aims to explore the principles of person centred care and encourages participants to consider approaches that enable people living with dementia to experience well being. Participants will be encouraged to consider ways in which identifying and responding to the abilities and needs of the person with dementia might influence the way the person experiences their dementia.
Dementia Care: Core Person Centred Skills
Bereavement and Loss in the Care Setting
Course Aim: This course aims to explore our responses to loss and identify ways in which loss, stress and change may affect staff, people living with dementia, relatives and friends.
Customer Care
Course Aim: This course aims to provide an overview of the key principles of Customer Care and how these can be used when providing services to people living with dementia and their carers.
Dementia: Advanced Skills
Course Aim: This course aims to refresh those who have already undertaken the 'Introduction to Dementia' course or who influence care practice with more in-depth knowledge of dementia and explore key concepts relating to the care and support of people living with dementia
Medication: A Spoonful of Sugar
Course Aim: To provide an overview of managing medication, health and well-being in dementia care. This course will also provide information about diet and nutrition and explore the potential benefits of gentle exercise and complementary and alternative therapies.
Meeting the needs of Lesbians and Gay Men
Courses Aim: To provide an overview of the changes in the lives of older lesbians and gay men over the last fifty years and how this may influence their care and support needs.
Older People, Personal Relationships and Sexuality
Course Aim: This course aims to explore our own and socio-cultural attitudes towards sexuality and dementia. The course develops an holistic approach to older adult sexuality, its expression and resolution within the limitations of environment and disease. Special attention is given to understanding and resolving, behaviours that might be difficult to interpret and needs that might be complex to address.
Person Centred Skills
Course Aim: This course aims to provide an overview and practise the skills of delivering person centred care. The course will consider personal enhancers, detractors and the concepts of well-being and ill-being.
Positively Managing Risk
Course Aim: To give learners an overview of risk in older people's care, how this may balance with rights and consider strategies for risk management.
Recording and Care Planning Skills
Course Aim: This course aims to recognise the importance of good practice in record keeping and care planning and to relate this to how to maintain records in the work place and to meet the persons needs in a person centred way.
Reducing the Risk of Falls
Course Aim: This course aims to give an overview of why falls may occur and provide strategies to reduce the risk of falls for people living with dementia.
Rights, Choice and Risk
Course Aim: This course aims to increase understanding of the legislation and guidance relevant to people living with dementia, within the context of care principles such as rights, enablement and choice. The course will consider the relevance of risk to the lives of people living with dementia, risk assessment and management in dementia care
Safeguarding People Living with Dementia
Course Aim: To explain and refresh knowledge of signs of abuse and why, as well as risk factors for abuse of people with dementia. It will explore the relationship between specific types of dementia and abuse, both towards the person with dementia and by them. The course also focusses on communicating with the person about Safeguarding, especially around disclosure and confidentiality and where denial is a feature. It will provide an opportunity for participants to share experiences and solutions.
Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults
Course Aim: To give an overview of the abuse of vulnerable adults, including the different forms that abuse can take. To refresh staff awareness of local and organisational policy. To give a background to the NVQ's by introducing the underpinning knowledge for HSC335.
Valuing Diversity: Working with people living with dementia from Different Cultures
Course Aim: This course aims to raise cross-cultural awareness and understanding of strategies for providing services to these clients. This course will give information about successful strategies for ensuring access for all groups of people living with dementia, as well as raising awareness of some common barriers in service provision.
Working and Responding Appropriately when Dementia Progresses
Course Aim: This course aims to explore the particular needs of those people living with dementia whose condition has progressed and where verbal communication can be particularly difficult. The course aims to promote responsive techniques that will enhance effective practice within the workplace in this complex and challenging area of care and support.
Dementia Care: Positive Interactions
Behaviour That Challenges
Course Aim: This course aims to consider the changes in behaviour that may happen as a result of dementia, the factors that may contribute to behaviour that ‘challenges' and how all staff working with people living with dementia can develop strategies for avoiding and/or managing difficult situations
Dementia Specialist Communication Skills
Course Aim: The course aims to focus on how best to work alongside all key partners in order to communicate effectively with people living with dementia, their cares and with each other.
Counselling Skills
Course Aim: This course aims to provide an introduction to counselling skills that may be used while working with people living with dementia and their family carers and is aimed at those who provide emotional support to people living with dementia and their carers.
Fancy Footwork - Dancing Around the Truth
Course Aim: This course aims to provide a dignified and humane framework for responding to people living with dementia who appear to be occupying another reality.
Moving Words and Telling Stories - Creative Communicating with People living with dementia
Course Aim: This course aims to provide a practical and inspiring training day for all staff working with people living with dementia who wish to develop their confidence in expressing themselves through words and non-verbal approaches and to enable each individual with dementia to find their own way of finding a voice and feeling appreciated
Dementia Care: Meaningful Activity
Activity Groups with People living with dementia
Course Aim: To provide staff with an understanding of the principles and best practice in activity work with people with dementia. The course will introduce the Pool Activity Level (PAL) instrument (Pool, 2007) and how it can be used to review care planning.
Spicing Up Life for People living with dementia
Course Aim: To promote the principles of best practice in activity work with older people, particularly those who have dementia.
Valuing Memories and Life History
Course Aim: To provide an introduction to reminiscence and life history work with older people (including people with dementia) and explore ideas for helping individuals to share their memories.
Developing Positive Relationships with Relatives and Carers
Course Aim: Togive learners an opportunity to consider the experiences of family members looking after a person with dementia, in particular the losses and stresses involved when a relative moves into residential.
Developing Services: Consulting and Involving People living with dementia and their Carers
Course Aim: To explore the principles of service-user involvement in the planning, delivery and evaluation of services and introduce tools and techniques that can be used to engage people with dementia and their carers.
Providing Counselling Support to Family Carers
Course Aim: To provide an introduction to counselling skills that may be used while working with people with dementia and their family carers.
Providing Telephone Support to Family Carers
Course Aim: To identify and practice the skills of using the telephone as an effective medium for offering advice, information and support. This course will be of particular interest to volunteers and paid workers who may offer support to family carers on the telephone as part of their work
The Big Step - Transitions into Care
Course Aim: To explore the emotional and practical impact of a move to a care home for an older person and their family carer. The course will also explore the particular issues relating to moving into specialist dementia care.
Dementia Care: Areas of Special of Interest
Alcohol and the Older Person
Course Aim: To give an overview of the causes, diagnosis and treatment of alcohol problems in older people. Time will be spent looking at common dilemmas in caring for this group.
Dementia: Best Practice for Social Workers and Care Managers
Course Aim: To offer social workers/care managers an update on current perspectives in dementia care and an opportunity to enhance their skills in strengths based assessments. The day will explore the complexities of balancing rights and risks for a person living at home and the importance of good preparation and support for the individual and their relatives in the transition to a care home.
Dementia: Nursing Perspectives
Course Aim: To explore practice in current dementia care, focusing on a care planning approach. This course is aimed at nurses, primarily RGN's, working in nursing and residential care. It will help meet PREP requirements.
Depression in Later Life
Course Aim: To give an overview of depression in later life, its signs and symptoms and how this may affect the well-being of an individual and recognise how the condition contrasts with dementia.
Diet and Nutrition
Course Aim: To provide information relating to malnutrition, the basic principles of nutrition and safe food handling. To give learners the opportunity to consider planning a healthy diet for older people.
End of Life Care
Course Aim: To help the care team respond to the ongoing experience of loss faced by people with dementia, their families and themselves to create a therapeutic environment throughout the progression of the illness and at the end of life.
Learning Disabilities and Dementia
Course Aim: To increase the confidence and skills for those working with clients with a dual diagnosis of learning disability and dementia.
Managing Continence
Course Aim: To explore issues relating to managing continence within the context of the dementia care environment and how it may impact upon staff.
Mental Health in Later Life
Course Aim: To ensure that learners are acquainted with the main clinical disorders associated with old age; examine the features that distinguish dementia from other disorders; look at the impact of mentail illness on the individual, their family and carers and examine the role of social attitudes in relation to mental illness in later life.
Substance Misuse and Older People
Course Aim: To give an overview of the various aspects of working with people with alcohol and drug problems and dementia. Diagnosis and strategies will be discussed as well as common dilemmas in caring for this group.
Undertaking Assessments Using a Person-Centred Approach
Course Aim: To raise awareness of the person centred approach to ensure needs are properly address when assessing the needs of older people and people with dementia.
Working with Assistive Technology
Course Aim: To provide an introduction to Assistive Technology and consider the ethics and pther aspects of its uses within the dementia care setting.
Working with Clients with HIV-related Dementia
Course Aim: To provide a basic introduction to HIV-related dementia and issues affecting the care setting (including confidentiality).
Working with Younger People living with dementia
Course Aim: To give an overview of different types of dementia that affect people under the age of 65. To develop understanding and skills in responding to the particular issues and needs of younger people with dementia their families.
Dementia Care: Managers and Leaders
The following titles reinforce the importance or effective leadership, management and team work in order to provide effective services to people living with dementia and their family carers.
Avoiding Stress and Burnout
Course Aim: This course aims to explore the causes of stress and its impact, and a range of coping strategies for stress management, to reduce the effect of stress on the health of staff and organisations they work in.
Leadership and Supervision
Course Aim: This course aims to enable participants to understand the difference between management and leadership and to provide guidance on carrying out supervision sessions, including setting and reviewing objectives. This course is aimed at anyone who needs to lead a team of people. The course will also provide guidance on investigation of incidents and recording information in an appropriate format
Management, Leadership and Teambuilding
Course Aim: This course aims to enable learners to understand the difference between management and leadership, encourage good practice and enable them to build strong teams and working relationships. This course is aimed at anyone who needs to lead a team.
Meeting Challenges for Better Caring
Course Aim: This course aims to focus on the person centred approach to care, emphasising that the needs of the client and staff member must be recognised and met. It helps all staff working with people living with dementia to identify, establish and maintain professional boundaries and gives practice in the essential skills of communication, behaviour, negotiation, assertion and stress management.
Promoting Well Being and Independence
Course Aim: This course aims to consider the concepts of well-being, choice and independence and how these can be promoted within services for people living with dementia. This course will of particular interest to those wishing to understand what underpins the personalisation agenda.
Supervision and Coaching Skills for Managers
Course Aim: This course aims to provide managers working in dementia care with an overview of supervision skills. The course will demonstrate how to set boundaries and encourage good practice, it also explored ways to use these meetings as an opportunity to develop an individual and motivate them to do well in the workplace. The course will be of particular interest to those who are new to line managing staff.
Time Management and Getting the most out of Meetings
Course Aim: This course aims to discuss the best way to manage your time effectively and gives advice and guidance on handling time constraints and managing workloads. The second half of the course will discuss the best way to prepare for and run a meetings and gives advice and guidance on handling difficult people during the meeting. A great course for newly appointed team leaders and managers who have not had to run meetings in the past
Working Effectively as Part of a Team
Course Aim: This course aims to help workers appreciate and experience the benefits of working in effective teams and to encourage them to develop good working relationships outside their own immediate team as well as within it. By the end of the session participants will understand their responsibility to contribute to the effectiveness of teamwork in their organisation.
For further information on any of the above courses, please contact Dementia UK Training on 020 7874 7222 or email us.