Training
Footsteps in Care
Footsteps In Care are committed to ensure that all staff receive comprehensive and continuous nationwide training, we develop the necessary skills needed to meet CQC regulation requirements and safeguard the vulnerable members of our society. Prime Time Recruitment in partnership with Footsteps in Care are proud to have been accredited with the nationally recognised Investors In People Award.
- We offer yearly refreshers that enhance continuous personal development
- Training safeguards carers and the individual you support
- It gives the opportunity to share experiences and instill best practice
- Training gives the opportunity to network with colleagues
The Footsteps in Care Team also offer specialist courses in Dementia, Learning Disabilities, Autism, Epilepsy, Safe Administration of Medication and Safeguarding of Vulnerable Adults (SoVA).
All courses are designed to meet the learning outcomes set by the Skills for Care and course materials can be used as evidence towards QCF level 2. Footsteps In Care offer a bespoke e-learning package for Common Induction Standards including review of learning, covering
- Role of the health and social care worker
- Personal development
- Communicate effectively
- Equality and inclusion
- Principles for implementing duty of care
- Principles of safeguarding in health and social care
- Person-centred support
- Health and safety in an adult social care setting
and an in-house Social Care mandatory training programme:
- Manual Handling
- Infection Control and Food Hygiene
- Basic First Aid Awareness
- Health & Safety (inc. Fire Safety)
as well as all of this we have specialists covering our Home Care/Live In staff training needs:
- palliative care death dyeing and bereavement
- challenging behaviour (MAPPA) control and restraint
- first aid and c p r for adults and children
- dementia and Alzheimer's awareness
- epilepsy awareness
- diabetes awareness
- Parkinson's disease awareness
- m s disease awareness
- stroke patient care
- medication awareness
- stoma awareness and care
- peg training , pump monitoring
- p w s disease
- continence care -care off the catheter
- documentation training, fluid charts ,daily log sheets
Team Teach - Working with teaching assistants for children with LD
To promote the least intrusive positive handling strategy and a continuum of gradual and graded techniques, with an emphasis and preference for the use of verbal, non-verbal de-escalation strategies being used and exhausted before positive handling strategies are utilised.
To enable services develop acceptable and authorised responses to disruptive, disturbing, angry and aggressive behaviours in a manner that maintains positive relationships and provides safety for all, by training in Team-Teach.
To reduce the amount of serious incidents involving physical controls in all settings and to emphasise the importance of exhausting behaviour management strategies in the first instance.
To increase the awareness of staff concerning the importance of recording and reporting, monitoring and evaluating, all incidents involving positive handling.
To provide a process of repair and reflection for both staff and children.
Core Course Objectives
Following successful completion of a Team-Teach Practitioners Course participant will:
- Be able to state the basic values, rationale and principles of the Team-Teach Approach.
- Have knowledge and understanding of relevant legal standards and expectations related to use of force.
- Have knowledge and understanding of the reporting, recording, monitoring and evaluating requirements of incidents involving physical controls and reasonable force.
- Have knowledge and understanding of aggression and conflict, being able to recognise typical signs and causes.
- Have knowledge and understanding of the importance of using de-escalation strategies where possible. Is aware of the concept of the conflict spiral, levels of behaviour and the need for an appropriate staff response in order to maximise the opportunity to calm the incident through non- verbal and verbal strategies where possible.
- Have knowledge and understanding of a whole setting holistic approach to behaviour management, including the importance of self awareness and self-control whilst managing challenging behaviour.
- Be able to conduct a follow up process with the service users and is aware of the importance of a support and supervision, repair and reflection process for both staff and individuals involved following a serious incident involving positive handling strategies.
- Is able to use positive and protective personal safety skills in order to minimise risk to all involved.
- Perform a range of positive handling strategies, gradual and graded, involved in holding, guiding and escorting safety, from least intrusive to more restrictive holds.
- Use positive handling strategies that provide for a range of appropriate de-escalation's options including; keeping standing, from standing into chairs, from standing to the floor, into a knees position where possible. Staff to perform a physical technique specific to smaller children (Standing, chairs and ground sitting options).
- Awareness of the need to avoid taking down to the floor in a supine or prone position, other than in the most exceptional circumstances, for staff to know how to make safe in such a position.
- Responding to situations where standing fights between service users may happen.
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