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Our Modules
Modules taught will be developed from your individualised Training Needs Analysis (TNA) that you will be supported with to complete. This will ensure that teaching is proportionate to the needs of the people that your service supports. Elements included within training are listed below. Training is provided with PowerPoint presentations, group discussions and practical demonstrations.
Modules A + B
Theory &
Breakaway Training
Topics:
Person-centred human rights-based approach
The importance of continuous risk assessment
Personal safety awareness
Duty of candour and duty of care
Legal framework
Codes of Conduct
National guidance and local Restraint reduction polices
Views and experience of people with lived experience
Importance of effective non-verbal and verbal communication
Importance of professional attitude and approach
How attitudes and attributions of distress or concerning behavior can impact on people being supported
Decision making around the concept of least restrictive practice
Primary preventative person-centred strategies
Secondary de-escalation person-centred strategies
Tertiary de-escalation person-centered strategies
Limitations of breakaway techniques
Importance of team approaches
Post incident procedures
Demonstration of breakaway techniques, opportunities for practice and end of module assessment
Module C
Physical Skills
Intervention
Topics:
The ability to understand the rationale for use of physical intervention skills only as a last resort with the use of the correct underpinning legal frameworks and documentation
The ability to understand the rationale for use of physical intervention skills
The ability to demonstrate a range of physical intervention skills safely as per scoring criteria on assessment sheet
Ongoing ability to understand the underpinning ethical, legal and human rights based approaches as taught in Module A and B.
Competence and knowledge are assessed with a knowledge-based assessment. Breakaway and physical skills are assessed with a practical assessment. Ongoing individualised support is provided to participants throughout training .
"I was fearing attending as past experience wasn’t great! But as soon as I walked into the room the guys made me feel at ease and I loved the course."
— Adekunli