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Author Archives: Linda Ellis

1. Autism Awareness

   2nd February 2017 4:10 pm Leave a Comment

   The government has acknowledged how important it is for certain people to understand how limited their understanding of autism actually is. While most professionals know something about autism, they do not necessarily understand how autism affects people

   Without awareness and understanding of the condition recognising autism and communicating appropriately is very difficult.

   The recommendations from the 2010 Autism Strategy ‘ Fulfilling and Rewarding Lives’ include:

   • We recommend that autism awareness training should be included within general equality and diversity training programmes across all public services (2.8)
   • It is important that adults with autism and their carers are involved in developing and delivering training (2.9)
   • We believe it is essential that autism awareness training is available to all staff in the criminal justice sector (2.14)
   • We believe it is essential that autism awareness training is available to everyone working in health and social care (2.16)
   • We believe that autism awareness training should be part of the core training curricula for doctors, nurses and other clinicians (2.23)

    

   Those who work in health and social care need to be able to identify potential signs of autism. They must understand how to adjust their behaviour and the way they communicate with adults who have autism. The ‘Autism skills and knowledge’ list was produced by Skills for Care (2011) and was developed with the aim of improving the awareness of autism and skills among those working in generic health and social care services. The list is intended to enable individual workers, or services and teams, to work out whether they have the knowledge and skills needed to provide a good service to people who have autism.

   The Autism Strategy aims to increase the understanding of autism by improving autism awareness training for all frontline public service staff, in line with the needs of their job, and developing specialist training for staff in health and social care.

   Part of autism awareness training is getting the trainees to view things as an autistic person would see it. This helps to create a much better understanding and enables carers to give more effective support to those with autism.

   Contact LCE Training Services to find out more about our autism awareness certificate.

   Tel: 07902 416 089

2. Dealing with dementia

   4:11 pm Leave a Comment

   With some 850,000 people in the UK suffering from dementia, and numbers set to rise to more than 1 million within the next 8 years, the Alzheimer’s Society say more training is needed to ensure people with dementia receive the highest quality of care and the challenges of dementia are met.

   Unfortunately a high proportion of those caring for dementia sufferers have had no specialist training. Understanding the various types of dementia, learning how to manage it, and having a greater awareness of the many sensitive issues sufferers and their families face will result in better quality of life and lower overall care costs.

   This report by the Alzheimer’s Society shows that dementia costs the NHS 4.3 billion per year, yet 95% of all challenging behaviours in homes for people who have dementia are caused by the staff due to their lack of understanding of the condition.

   The Alzheimer’s Society calls for staff providing formal care to people with dementia to receive dementia training and commissioners to ensure that care staff have access to specialist support. Specialist training will enable staff to recognise and respond to the behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia in the right way causing less panic and stress to both the sufferer and carer.

   FACTS–Source

   • Two thirds of the cost of dementia is paid by people with dementia and their families
   • Unpaid carers supporting someone with dementia save the economy £11 billion a year
   • Dementia is one of the main causes of disability later in life, ahead of cancer, cardiovascular disease and stroke. As a country we spend much less on dementia than on these other conditions
   • 225,000 will develop dementia this year, that’s one every three minutes
   • 1 in 6 people over the age of 80 have dementia
   • 70 per cent of people in care homes have dementia or severe memory problems

   This video was created by nurses at Guy’s and St Thomas Hospital to raise awareness of dementia among staff

   Go online for more information on Dementia Awareness training courses.

   If you would like to secure spots for delegates for this training, please contact LCE Training Services on 07902 416 089.

3. The Care Certificate April 2015

   14th October 2016 10:17 am Leave a Comment

   The Care Certificate was introduced in April 2015 and it is now the expectation of all those working in health and social care to undertake this learning as part of their induction programme.

   There are 15 standards that make up the Care Certificate and in order to be awarded this certificate workers must meet all of the outcomes and assessment requirements.

   The Care Certificate:

   -Applies across the health and social care sectors
   -Portable between sectors and organisations
   -Assessment of both knowledge and competence

   The standards

   1. Understand your role

   2. Your personal development

   3. Duty of care

   4. Equality and diversity

   5. Person centred values

   6. Communication

   7. Privacy and dignity

   8. Fluids and nutrition

   9. Mental health, dementia and learning disabilities

   10. Safeguarding adults

   11. Safeguarding children

   12. Basic life support

   13. Health and safety

   14. Handling information

   15. Infection prevention and control

   Contact LCE Training Services to book your staff onto our 4 day Care Certificate course!

4. The Mental Health Act Code of Practice (2015)

   24th October 2016 10:03 am Leave a Comment

   In April of this year the updated COP for the Mental Health Act 1983 went live and introduced an improved Code with amended and some completely new chapters.

   Key Changes:-

   – 5 new guiding principles

   – New chapters on care planning, human rights, equality and health inequalities

   – Consideration of when to use the Mental Health Act and when to use the Mental Capacity Act and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards

   – Information to support victims (of part 3 patients

   – New sections on physical health care, blanket restrictions, duties to support patients with dementia, learning disabilities and autism and immigration detainees

   – Significantly updated chapters on the appropriate use of restrictive interventions, particularly seclusion and long-term segregation, police powers and places of safety

   – Further guidance on how to support children and young people

   There are also other less obvious changes made in response to, among other things, Winterbourne View and updated legislation and revised standards.

   Contact LCE Training Services to request training on the updates and other mental health legislation.

   Go online to browse the complete range of mental health training courses available.

5. Virtual Training Courses

   19th June 2020 2:13 pm Leave a Comment

   LCE Training Services are now able to deliver all of our non-practical training courses virtually!  We understand for some companies it is difficult to release members of staff in groups due to staffing levels. For this reason, we are now offering all of our customers the opportunity to have the training they need to be delivered virtually which increases flexibility and allows for larger companies to release one or two staff from different services thereby enabling more cost efficiency.

   What’s included in the Virtual Training?

   The content of our courses remains exactly the same, we are still able to interact with delegates on the course, we can still carry out group activities and delegates can complete Assessments of knowledge, which can be emailed to the trainer to mark.

   What equipment will I need?

   Ideally, each delegate would attend our courses using their own device which would need to have a camera and microphone so we can see and hear you and access to the internet. We understand that some may not individually have access to each of these things so we can deliver our training with the delegates using one device  (limited to 9 people) which would need a camera and microphone.

   How much does a course cost?

   Our pricing will remain the same. We are delivering the same high quality training and delegates will receive a certificate once the course has been completed.

   How do I book a virtual course?

   To book a course or if you have any queries please contact Linda Ellis on 07951748937 or email lindaellis@lcetrainingservices.co.uk  Linda will be happy to discuss all of your training needs and requirements.

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