Joint Training offers a range of Dementia related courses and we are delighted to report that Shropshire Partners in Care (SPIC) are funding ALL places for CQC registered independent sector providers of adult social care across Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin.  Additional places will also be funded by Shropshire Council and non-funded applicants are welcome too.  For more information please see Dementia courses 2023

Shropshire Council invites you to attend this on-line conference held during Autism Acceptance Week. We have renowned national and international autistic speakers, who will be sharing their wisdom and experience with us.

Speakers:

Dr Wenn Lawson (PhD) CPsychol AFBPsS MAPs AASW:  Gender transitioning as an older autistic.  World renowned psychologist who is a well respected and highly knowledgeable expert on autism.

Dean Beadle: Supporting Autistic people through anxiety and the importance of autistic joy. Autistic speaker/trainer, singer, and former journalist. Proud to be autistic.

Jess Hendrickx: How being autistic can affect people's eating habits.   Autistic speaker, trainer, assessor, and mentor.

Elaine Hatfield-White: A lived experience and late diagnosis.  Specialist autism mentor/ consultant with autistic people.

Dr Luke Beardon:  Autistic safety - what is it, and how might it be achieved? Senior lecturer in autism at Sheffield Hallam University and an award winning author. 

Dr Carly Jones  MBE FRSA (hc): Autistic Safeguarding.  Autism advocate who has worked for the inclusion of autistic women and girls since 2008. 

Shropshire Council ASC staff please apply here: (pre-funded/no charge)  https://forms.office.com/e/FT19T6NwDE

All other applicants: Cost: £45.00 per person, please apply here Life through the autistic lens - a one-day conference around autism Tickets, Thu 30 Mar 2023 at 09:00 | Eventbrite

We are very pleased to report that the CPI has been re-certified as complying with the Restraint Reduction Network Training Standards.  The Bild ACT RRN Training Standards ensure that training is delivered by competent and experienced training professionals who can evidence knowledge and skills that go far beyond the application of physical restraint or other restrictive interventions.  The standards represent a huge leap forward in protecting the safety and human rights of everyone, including, but not limited to, people with mental health conditions, dementia, learning disabilities and autism.  Here in Joint Training we are an approved RRN Training Centre and have three certified CPI training professionals who deliver a range of CPI Safety Intervention™ and Verbal Intervention™ training courses - for more information on how this essential training could benefit you and your organisation please see CPI Safety and Verbal Intervention Training.  

Skills For Care have launched the reviewed edition of the Manager Induction Standards (MIS).  The Manager Induction Standards sets out what a Manager needs to know and understand to perform well in their role.  The standards are aimed at new, existing and aspiring managers.

There are 11 standards to complete in total.  Skills for Care supply a MIS book for completion on each unit along with access to a suite of new e-learning modules.  See Manager Induction Standards (skillsforcare.org.uk) for more information from Skills for Care, requirements for completion, e-learning modules and cost.

Joint Training is recognised by Skills for Care as a Centre of Excellence and offers a number of training sessions and live learning webinars, which complement the standards required in MIS.  Including:

• Mental Capacity Act (MCA)
• Equality and Diversity
• CQC – Preparing for your inspection
• Resilience and Stress Management
• CPI Safety Intervention™/ Verbal Intervention™ training
• Safeguarding for Managers
• Supervision and Performance Management
• Change Management
• Conflict Management
• Sickness Absence
• Values Based Recruitment

And much more….. Joint Training | Shropshire Council

Stress Awareness Month has been held every April since 1992 to raise awareness of the causes and cures for our modern-day stress epidemic. It is the time when we have an opportunity for

• an open conversation on the impact of stress
• dedicated time to removing the guilt, shame, and stigma around mental health
• to talk about stress, and its effects and open up about our mental and emotional state with friends, families, colleagues, and professionals.

  Click here for more information and free resources.

As the LGBT history month of February 2023 ended, around 360 participants attended the launch of the ground-breaking Skills for Care commissioned Framework for:  

(LGBTQ+) Care in Later Life, A Learning Framework for knowledge, skills and values for working affirmatively with LGBTQ+ people in later life.

One of the framework’s contributors stated, ‘This resource meets a critical gap in providing evidence, information, advice, and tools to support the social care workforce to develop their knowledge, skills, values to improve how they work with LGBTQ+ people in later life.’

This resource is for employers, employees, social care employers, social care employees, trainers and educators, people who draw on care and support, carers service commissioners, regulators of social care, voluntary, private and independent care providers sector and many more

The framework promotes attitude change, affirmative values and inspires personalisation for those working within social care.  At the launch event we heard from inspirational contributors and community volunteers that informed and supported the co-production of the framework.

Joint Training and the wider council are now working towards how this resource can be used as broadly as possible. Watch this space for further information!

Now available to view and download on the Shropshire Choices web page.

The Shropshire Support Finder is another way people can find information to help them get the support that’s right for them. This publication is full of support services, voluntary organisations and community-based activities that are available across Shropshire to help you or a loved one lead the lives you want as well as maintain or regain independence. It is designed to give you help and advice so that you can find your own way to meet any needs for support and care.