QCF Linked Training

 

 

Dementia Care Matters links workshops to the Qualification and Credit Framework - Levels 2 & 3 Dementia related qualifications.

 

 

The four most popular one day workshops include.

  • Becoming a Butterfly
  • Feeling based communication skills
  • Expressions of behaviour
  • Sexuality, intimacy and relationships
 For details of each workshop see below.

 

Available at a SPECIAL OFFER price during 2011

£750 + VAT and expenses for 15 participants.

 

 

"Becoming a Butterfly."

 

“An introduction to essential skills that all care staff need......Why  didn’t I  know this before?”  (course participant) 

 

 

This workshop is effective in moving staff focus away from TASK.  

 

It is THE workshop where you can  SEE, HEAR and FEEL  instant results.

 

  • Motivate staff to increase positive interactions with people and change the moment.
  • Change the atmosphere in your lounges instantly.
  • Turn your staff into colourful butterflies.
  • Prove activities can be part of everyone’s role.
  • Know how to fill up the environment.
  • Create real outcomes for CQC and commissioners.

  

  Available in-house from only £750 + VAT & expenses     For flyer - click here 

 

 

 

"Feeling based communication skills".

 

"This day really helped me take a step back and consider ways that we communicate with people every day - I know now we often get it wrong but I feel confident that the team can take a fresh appoach now."      (course participant)

  

This workshop helps staff to enter the same bubble with people living with a dementia, learn how to not be in a seperate bubble and the importance of not bursting a person's bubble.

 

  • Learn new communciation skills
  • Grasp how to become and interpreter.
  • Practice finding new meaning behind words
  • Understand that people living with a dementia will increasingly      communicate their feelings through language that is not always literal

  • Create real outcomes for CQC and commissioner.        

Available in-house from only £750 + VAT & expenses.     For flyer click here

 

 

 "Expressions of behaviour"

 

“The whole team agree that today has forced us to look at people’s behaviours through new eyes – we want to support each other better and eliminate all negative responses. “  

(Home Manager and course participant)

 

This workshops helps staff understand that the behaviours expressed by people living with a dementia are a way of communicating and expressing a need and feelings.
 
  • Work through a set of ‘recipes’ on how to respond to “behaviours”
  • Understand links between behaviour, needs and feelings.  
  • Explore links between life histories and behaviours.
  • Practice finding the meaning behind behaviours.
  • Develop strategies to remove negative language and controlling care and how to focus on positive responses.
  • Create real outcomes for CQC and commissioners 

 

  Available in-house from only £750 + VAT & expenses.   For flyer click here

 

 

 

"Sexuality, intimacy and relationships"

 

“Without Dementia Care Matters guidance on this day I don’t think we would have ever been able to move forward in this area, I feel very relieved.“  (course participant)

 

 

This workshop helps staff to break the taboo on this subject.

 

 

  • Explore the many ways in which living with a dementia has an impact on intimacy needs and how these needs are expressed  
  • Consider a model for identifying reasons, triggers and positive approaches.
  • Discuss the creation of a policy about sexuality in your care setting.
  • Learn how to open up the subject with staff, families and people experiencing a dementia
  • Create real outcomes for CQC and commissioners.

 

Available in-house from only £750 + VAT & expenses.     For flyer click here

 

 

Other workshops available. Call 01723 242 335 or 07889 000801   to discuss the needs of your staff.

 

 

 

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