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CSTF Basic Life Support (BLS) Half DayStart Time is 1pm and finishes at 4.30pm

Course outcomes meet the UK Core Skills and Training Framework guidelines.

This face-to-face training (refresher) course covers practical and theory-based elements of Basic Life Support. You will learn how to perform chest compression and rescue breathing (CPR), how to operate an automated external defibrillator safely and how to place an unconscious breathing victim in the recovery position.

Please Note
This Refresher training course Updates health professionals’ skills and broadens their knowledge of new legislation within the healthcare industry


Course Content
The Course includes AED machine
The role of the rescuer
Situational and environmental assessment
How to act in an emergency
Cardio-pulmonary-resuscitation (CPR)
Dealing with an unconscious casualty
The conscious casualty
The recovery position
Dealing with a choking casualty
Assessment
Practical Assessment of Skills:
Scene Assessment
Calls for help
Demonstrates effective CPR and rescue breaths
Is able to demonstrate the recovery position


Learning Outcomes:
At the end of this course, participants should be able to demonstrate:
How to conduct a scene assessment
How to conduct a primary survey
How to assess the collapsed victim
How to perform CPR.
How to operate an automated external defibrillator safely (AED)
How to place an unconscious breathing victim in the recovery position

CSTF Manual Handling & Moving of People & Inanimate Objects Half Day (Level 1 & 2)Start Time 9 am finishes at 12.30 pm

Course outcomes meet the UK Core Skills and Training Framework guidelines.

This face-to-face (refresher) training course covers practical and theory-based elements of Manual Handling & Moving of People & Inanimate Objects. You will learn how to demonstrate safe handling techniques, how to use a patient hoist and the principles of human movement.

Please Note
This Refresher training course Updates health professionals’ skills and broadens their knowledge of new legislation within the healthcare industry


Course Content
• Spinal mechanics and function
• Importance of back care and posture, risk factors for back pain
• Current relevant legislation and professional guidelines where relevant
• Safe management of inanimate loads
• Handling strategies for clients with impaired mobility
• Dealing with unpredictable occurrences
• Use of equipment
• Assessment of risks addressing: - tasks (including unexpected) - the limits of individuals' capability (their own and that of others) - loads (both inanimate and human) - environment and the importance of good housekeeping
• Importance of ergonomic approach
• Principles of normal human movement and promotion of client independence


Practical Skills Demonstrated and/or Discussed:
• Moving the client forward in a chair.
• Moving the client back in a chair.
• Sitting to standing from a chair.
• Sitting to standing from the edge of a bed.
• Standing to sitting on a chair,
• Assisted walking.
• The falling patient.
• Assisting a patient up from the floor (without a hoist).
• Turning in bed
• Fitting and removing slide sheets
• Sliding the client up/down the bed
• Standing transfer
• Transfer from chair to chair/commode
• Fitting a sling with a client in bed
• Fitting sling using slide sheets
• Fitting a sling with a client in a chair.
• Hoisting from bed to chair Hoisting from chair to bed
• Hoisting the client from the floor

Learning Outcomes

Define the term ‘Manual Handling.
To raise awareness of the causative factors and types of musculoskeletal injuries (particularly back injuries), and how such an injury can affect the individual, the employer and society.
To provide basic information relating to the prevention of musculoskeletal injuries.
To provide an awareness of current Health and Safety legislation related to manual handling and its implementation in the workplace.
To introduce the subject of ergonomics and risk assessment.
The Importance of good communication in Safer Handling
Discuss unsafe practices and identify the rationale behind these
To Demonstrate Safe Handling Techniques

Course meets the requirements of:
• National Occupational Standards:
• Dimension: SS13 Move and transport patients within the work area
• Dimenson: PROHSS1 (C) Make sure your own actions reduce risks to health and safety
• KSF Framework:
• Dimension: EF3 Transport and Logistics
• Core Dimension Level 1 Health, Safety & Security - Assist in maintaining own and others’ health, safety and security.


This course will take approximately 3.5 hours to complete.

PMVA 1 Day Refresher - BILD Certified - tutors are GSA grade A tutors.PMVA-GSA & Bild Accredited
PMVA (Prevention Management of Violence and Aggression) is an essential update when working within any mental health environment. The PMVA refresher course takes one full day to complete, and includes topics such as understanding the stages of the assault cycle, de-escalation strategies and recognising the importance of implementation of early intervention strategies.

Train Healthcare ensures all are tutors are GSA grade A tutors.

Start time 9am Finish 5pm

This refresher course in (PMVA) Prevention and Management of Violence and Aggression demonstrates techniques which will help you to defuse and manage potential conflict, safely, within a variety of settings.
Course content has been developed in line with the GSA (General Services Association) standards and currently going through the BILD certification process, in order to meet the requirements of the 2019 Restraint Reduction Network (RRN)

Training Standards.
The RRN Training Standards have replaced the British Institute of Learning Disabilities (BILD) Code of Practice. (Source: restraintreductionnetwork.org/training-standards/)

This PMVA (GSA) refresher course is essential for any member of staff that works in a violent/ aggressive setting, particularly within a mental health environment.
This course is only for candidates that need to update their skills. Delegates must have completed a full 3-day PMVA course prior to attending this course.
A health declaration must be completed on the day of the course, which will be assessed by the course tutor. Due to the physical nature of this course we cannot accept any pregnant candidates on the course, post- natal learners should seek advice from their GP prior to attendance.

Course Outcomes

By the end of the course, you will have knowledge on
• Legal Responsibilities
• Understand Reasonable Force
• Understand ethical considerations of physical intervention.
• Identify possible causes of violence + aggression.
• Know the stages of the assault cycle + what each stage means.
• Be able to identify signs of escalation of aggression.
• Understand the different types of de-escalation strategies.
• Recognise the importance of early intervention.
• Understand the importance of continually assessing + evaluating the levels of risk posed by difficult / challenging people.
• Select + utilise appropriate physical + non-physical strategies to manage aggressive individuals.
• Relevant legislation, guidelines + frameworks
• Legal + ethical issues
• Influences on PMVA
• Risks in restraint
• Use of Reasonable Force
• De-escalation
• Avoiding + detection of positional asphyxia
• Instruction + practice of: -



Course content

- Friendly come along (including Non-Contact and stage one, two and figure of four)
- Standing holds to include (Escape and Rescue)
- Upper Arm Wrap, Team Formulation & Approach
- Upper Arm Wrap to a secure hold
- Seated De-escalation to include Trouble Drills
- Upper Arm Wrap to Supine
- Supine Descent to Floor to Elevated Rest in Upper Arm Wrap
- Trouble Drill to Sniper in Supine
- Elevated rest to standing
- De-escalation in Supine
- Securing Legs in Supine
- Prone descent to floor
- Prone floor work (upper rest to lower rest, de-escalation on floor, legs in prone)
- Turning Prone to Supine
- Prone Standing from the floor
- Reliefs, standing-supine-prone
- Seclusion options

PMVA 3 Day Course -BILD Certified - tutors are GSA grade A tutors.PMVA-GSA & Bild Accredited

PMVA (Prevention Management of Violence and Aggression)

The RRN Training Standards have replaced the British Institute of Learning Disabilities (BILD) Code of Practice.
(Source:restraintreductionnetwork.org/training-standards/)


This course is for candidates who are required to complete 3-day PMVA training or those that need to update their 3-day PMVA training certificate.



Train Healthcare ensures that our PMVA tutors are GSA grade A tutors.

Start time 9 am Finish 5 pm each day
Course Pre-Requisite Requirements

(CourseOutcomes)
-Understand the levels of risk posed by challenging people.
-Explain how you can meet a person need and create a supportive environment.
-Understand the balance between enhancing quality of life and reducing restraint.
-Describe the effect of negative/ environmental factors.
-Explain the use of ‘reasonable force’ and its limitations/ legal requirements.
-Understand primary strategies and how to proactively meet a person’s needs.
-Understand the importance of verbal + non-verbal communication during conflict.
-Underline the impact that cultural differences may have in relation to communication.
-Identify causes of communication breakdown.
-Describe the common causes of conflict.
-Recognise the warning and danger signals displayed during a conflict situation.
-Recognise the importance of early intervention.
-Provide support to those directly affected by a violent incident.
-Understand the different types of de-escalation strategies.
-Define appropriate Secondary and Territory Non-Restrictive and Restrictive Strategies to manage aggressive individuals.



Day 1
• Legislation, Legal Frameworks + Ethical Considerations
• Legal Responsibilities and Reasonable Force
• Risks Associated with Restraint
• Mental Capacity + Mental Health
• Challenging Behaviour, Behaviours of Concern
• Root Causes of Distress
• Creating a Supportive Culture
• Health, Therapeutic Relationships + Person Centred Care
• Populations and Locations
• Dynamic Risk Assessments
• Stages of the Assault Cycle
• Situational Awareness
• Identifying, Managing and Reflecting on Triggers
• Listening and Communication Skills (communication models)
• Indicators of Confrontational Behaviour (Warning and Danger Signs)
• Documentation, Record Keeping + Post Incident De-briefing.

Day 2
• Verbal and Non-Verbal De-escalation Techniques
• Disengagement Techniques (Wrist Grabs, Body Grabs, Hair/Clothing Grabs + Strangulation, Avoiding Punches and Kicks)
• Role + Responsibilities of Head Person, 3 C's, presenting + securing head.

Instruction and practice of: -
Friendly come along (including non-Contact, stage one, two + figure of four)
Team approaches.
Upper arm wrap
Upper arm wrap to secure hold
Upper arm wrap to supine hold (ready to decent to the floor)


Day 3

Instruction and practice of:
• Supine Descent
• Descent to floor in upper arm wrap
• Upper arm wrap to elevated rest and return.
• Trouble drills (sniper position)
• Securing legs in supine
• Elevated rest to standing.
• Seated de-escalation
• Decent to chair
• Trouble drills
• Unexpected and/or unintentional controlled decent to the floor where the aggressor dictates or initialises the downward movement (prone)

Descent
Upper rest to lower rest and return.
De-escalation on floor
Legs in Prone
Turning Prone to Supine
Standing from Prone