Basic Awareness
Basic Awareness
This level of course is designed to meet the needs of workers who are inexperienced or new to their work with children and young people. The courses provide a comprehensive introduction to the subjects required at Level 3.
Behaviour Management
This course has been developed to give staff an understanding about the residential task and the role of a residential worker in successful interventions. The course explores these issues through the use of group discussion, role play and case examples.
Child Development
This course is designed to impart a basic foundation in ‘normal’ child development through the use of a series of theoretical workshops interspersed with group exercises that draw on personal experiences and specific case histories. This course is designed to impart a basic foundation in ‘normal’ child development through the use of a series of theoretical workshops interspersed with group exercises that draw on personal experiences and specific case histories. As the course progresses we will begin to look at ‘developmental delay’ and introduces candidates to a brief overview on ‘attachment theory’.
Food Safety Level 2
This course is designed to provide candidates who are involved with the preparation of food with the necessary skills and knowledge required by the National Minimum Standards. The course follows the syllabus provided by awarding bodies (CIEH,RSPH,RIPH or REHIS) and uses a wide range of material including Quizzes, Video clips, and other interactive media. At the end of the course, candidates have to undertake and pass an exam comprising of a number of multi-choice questions in order to receive a certificate.
Handling and Administration of Medication
Care workers who are responsible for the looking after and the giving of medicines to other people, must follow policies and procedures and good practice to ensure safety. This course provides professional guidance, theory and practice for those handling and administering medicines.
Health and Safety at Work
This course is designed to impart a basic introduction to Health & Safety at Work through the use of a series of theoretical workshops interspersed with group exercises. The course introduces learners to the regulation, legislation and expectations placed on all staff under the umbrella of Health & Safety.
Legal Framework - Residential Child Care
This course is designed to provide participants with an outline of the relevant legislation that covers working in residential child care, including the 1989 Children Act, the National Minimum Standards (Children’s Homes) and Every Child Matters. It also looks briefly at Criminal law in relation to Young people, at Children’s Rights and Discrimination Legislation.
Recording Skills
Recording skills are less about writing ability, and far more about being able to observe and listen, to take in information, process it and interpret it, while still being clear about how much individual perception affects the end result. This course is designed to explore issues about the ‘Why, What and How’s’ of recording. The course uses a range of generic materials to illustrate the subject, interspersed with a number of practical exercises and discussion groups.
Residential Child Care Skills
This course is designed as a basic day to explore and develop the task of the residential worker and includes a look at equality and diversity, communication, the residential task including the statement of purpose and an introduction to the concept of needs and needs assessment
Safeguarding Children and Young People (Level3)
This course is designed to provide a basic awareness of child protection including signs and symptoms, likely behaviours, do’s and don’ts and recording processes to equip learners with the knowledge to be able to safeguard children and young people
Working with Challenging Behaviour
The understanding of how to work effectively with children and young people who have challenging behaviour is vital if we are to succeed at ‘Safeguarding Children and Protecting Workers’. This course looks at how to manage behaviour and introduces both established and new workers to the basic concepts of safeguarding children and the young people we work with whilst protecting practitioners workers from the risk of injury and potential allegation.