Are You Achieving Quality in Dementia Care?
Are you a manger or senior worker within a residential care or nursing home that supports people with dementia?
Do you want to improve your knowledge of person centred dementia care?
Would you like to learn how to use evidenced-based, practical ways to support people with dementia to enable them to live well?
If you have answered yes to any of these questions, you will be interested to hear about a programme of training that Warwickshire County Council have invested in for care home staff.
We recognise the need to improve and sustain the quality of dementia care across the County. We are offering FREE accredited training modules for care and nursing home staff who work with people with dementia. These sessions will be delivered locally at training venues across Warwickshire by Professor Dawn Brooker’s team from the Association of Dementia Studies Worcester University.
There are two different courses, which are all are underpinned by the concept of VIPS, a framework that helps translate the values of person centred care in practice and stands for:
V = Values people – Values and promotes the rights of the person
I = Individual’s needs – Provides individualised care according to needs
P = Perspective of service user – Understands care from the perspective of the person with dementia
S = Supportive social psychology – Social environment enables the person to remain in relationship
Dementia Leadership Course
Leading person centred services for people living with dementia.
A 4 day course, delivered in 2 blocks of 2 days of face-to-face workshops and a work-based assignment. This Course is aimed at care home managers who want to develop their dementia specific leadership skills and who deserve recognition in this challenging area of work.
Course Content
- Develop an understanding of person centred care and the application of the VIPS framework
- Developing a person centred workforce
- Person centred care management
- Risk, safety and empowerment
- Working with families & volunteers working with organisations and communities
- Assuring the quality of person centred care
Find out more about this course here: Dementia Leadership Training
Dementia Specialist Course
Specialist practice in dementia (person centred care)
A 6 day course delivered face-to-face and work-based assignments over a 3 month period, in 2-day blocks. This course is aimed at people who work directly with people with dementia and have responsibility for the development and delivery of their care plans on a day-to-day basis, such as Activity Coordinators, Specialist Nurses, and Senior Care Officers.
Course Content
- Undertaking individualised person centred assessments, utilising cognitive capacity, strengths and needs, taking into account physical health needs in the context of dementia, maximising freedom & choice.
- Developing care plans based on the enriched model of dementia care
- Working with families to learn more about relationships, activity, occupation and fun, creating life-story and getting to know the person with dementia
- Helping people who have extreme distress and complex needs, assessing and managing risk and safeguarding vulnerable adults
- Developing supportive and interesting environments and Telecare
- End of life care
Find out more about this course here: Dementia Specialist Training
Don’t delay, book your place now!
Remember, these two unique and useful training courses are being provided totally free of charge, so we are expecting a high level of interest and advise booking a place early to avoid any disappointment.
This opportunity is being offered to support providers to achieve common standards in line with the recent contractual changes and fee increases. These changes stipulate that 1% of your fee rate is now specifically linked to performance in-line with these standards.
You can apply for a place via Warwickshire County Council’s Learning and Development Service or get more information by contacting David Williams Telephone: 01926 746950