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Developing Consultancy Skills in Dementia Care (C17)

5 Day workshop held in 2 parts - accredited by the University of Surrey

Do you…

• Advise the health and social care sector on dementia care practice and development?
• Want to develop your consultancy skills in dementia care?
• Want to develop from being a dementia care trainer to project management and knowing how to evidence improvements in care settings?

David Sheard and Peter Priednieks will jointly facilitate this new workshop drawing on and sharing all of their consultancy expertise over the last 14 years and on how to action material published in the 'Feelings Matter Most' series by Alzheimer's Society.

The workshop will be appropriate for people who have already completed a Dementia Care Training Skills course and are seeking to become coaches, mentors or consultants. Participants should have also undertaken a Diploma Level course in person centred dementia care or equivalent and/or a Leadership course in Dementia Care at university level and/or have substantial Senior Practitioner/General Management experience in dementia care.

It will involve participants designing and developing their own consultancy project to deliver over a six-month period, returning to Part Two of the course with an overview of their project through a formal presentation. Dementia Care Matters will offer mentoring support through this six month period.

The course also involves a 2000 word assignment submitted before Part Two of the course which will be required to meet assignment criteria agreed by Dementia Care Matters and their university partner.

The key aim of the five-day workshop will be:

• To present and facilitate with participants an overview of dementia care consultancy skills, focusing on skills involved in leading on culture change in dementia care settings.

The objectives will be:

• To share learning on dementia care consultancy needs in the health and social care sector
• To enable participants to effectively 'diagnose', design and deliver through consultancy, support and advice a focus on improving the lived experience of people with a dementia
• To centre participants on key projects in dementia care which consultants need to lead on within the care sector.
• To give participants an opportunity to practice the skills in steering a senior management team on their strategic direction in person centred dementia care.
• To transfer learning from the workshop directly into a work based consultancy project and to share this learning with other workshop participants.
• To assess, evaluate and give feedback to participants on their competency and development needs in becoming a dementia care consultant.

Applicants for this workshop will need to provide prior evidence that they meet the course criteria and are at an appropriate level of development to meet the course requirements. Dementia Care Matters reserve the right to suggest potential applicants engage in further learning before gaining entry onto this workshop.

Course Fee £1950.00 + VAT includes:

• 5 day course attendance
• Course Materials
• Mentoring of Project over 6 month period
• Assignment Marking
• University Accreditation