This online mental health support worker training course covers a wide range of topics relating to awareness of mental health, dementia & learning disability within the healthcare industry, such as types of dementia and barriers to disability. The course will take approximately one hour to complete, and at the end of the healthcare training there are a number of multiple choice questions based on the course content, which must be answered correctly to pass the course.
Train Healthcare are fully aligned with Skills For Health and have been awarded the Skills for Health ‘Quality Mark’ for our face to face and e-learning training courses.
Course Pre-Requisite Requirements
No pre course requisites required.
Course Content:
Key influences to this training
Winterbourne View
Mid Staffordshire Enquiry
Francis Report
Cheshire West Supreme Court ruling
Relevant Legalisation
Importance of early detection
Helping Individuals to plan
Identify Treatment Plans
Access to Information
Mental Health Conditions
Dementia
Learning Disabilities
Depression
Bi-Polar
Anxiety
Psychosis
Planning Care & Support
The Social Model of Disability
Barriers to Disability
Positive Behaviour Support Planning
WRAP Planning
Person Centred Care
Adaptions
Kings Fund
Safewards Project
Reporting Concerns
Recording Information
Advocacy – IMCA
Patient Rights
IMHA
Advance Decisions
Advance Statements
Safeguarding
Capacity
Learning Outcomes:
By the end of the course candidates will:
Understand the key influences in current practice
Understand legalisation relating to the treatment and care of Mental Health, Dementia and Learning Disabilities Patients
Have a basic awareness of common mental health conditions
Have a basic awareness of Dementia
Have a basic awareness of Learning Disability
Best Practice
Understand the Roles of an IMHA and IMCA
Understand the importance of patients’ rights
Assessment:
Online assessment
