Care Training is an integral element of the work carried out in the Care Industry.  Blay Training has years of experience of delivering all mandatory, and other care related, training courses, with staff coming directly from working within the Care Industry.  This ensures that all trainers are fully up-to-date with all legislative, ethical and good practice features relevant to caring for vulnerable individuals.

  • Equality and diversity  
  • Food safety
  • Health and safety in the workplace
  • Mental Capacity Act and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS)
  • Moving and handling people
  • Moving and handling of Inanimate Objects
  • Palliative care for end of life
  • Person-centred care planning
  • Safeguarding adults
  • Safeguarding children
  • Dementia Awareness
  • Mental health and depression
  • Nutrition, hydration and malnutrition Awareness
  •  Challenging and Abusive Behaviour
  • Physical Intervention
  • Infection control
  • Medication Administration Training
  • Diabetes Awareness Training
  • Train the Trainer

Equality and diversity  

This  course examines the significance of equality and diversity to organisations and their diverse customer base. Participants will be encouraged to reflect on their practice and to consider best-practice approaches to implementing equality and diversity within their work practice. This course is designed for all staff, to raise awareness of the different legislation that is driving the equality and diversity agenda in the UK and Ireland.

Food safety

Everyone who works with food has a special responsibility for safeguarding the health of consumers and ensuring that the food they serve or sell is perfectly safe to eat.. This course is designed for anyone working in a catering setting where food is prepared, cooked or handled.

Health and safety in the workplace

This course has been designed for staff working in a variety of settings who require awareness and skills to address health and safety at work. It identifies a full range of relevant issues and provides instruction and guidance on how to become conscious of accident prevention and the legalities of health and safety law. .

Mental Capacity Act and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS)

The Mental Capacity Act has been in force since 2005 and is designed to empower and protect those who lack capacity. The Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) came into effect from 1 April 2009 and provides a legal framework to those who are deprived of their liberty by ensuring that any DoL follows defined processes. Our course helps identify how care professionals comply with this legislation. The course is designed for operational staff and managers who work within the statutory framework to empower and protect vulnerable people who are unable to make their own decisions and who may be deprived of their liberty.

Moving and handling people

This course identifies good practice with regard to back care, demonstrates the correct moving and handling techniques to use in a care setting and provides opportunities to practise these. Moving and handling training is a legal requirement for staff who carry out such activities. The course is aimed at care staff and volunteers who work in any care setting where they are required to carry out activities that involve moving and handling people using the correct lifting techniques and appropriate equipment

Moving and handling of Inanimate Objects

This course identifies good practice with regard to back care, demonstrates the correct moving and handling techniques to use in a care setting and provides opportunities to practise these. Moving and handling training is a legal requirement for staff who carry out such activities. The course is aimed at care staff and volunteers who work in any care setting where they are required to carry out activities that involve moving and handling

Palliative care for end of life

The process of dying and death itself must never be regarded as routine by managers and staff. The quality of the care that residents receive in their last days is as important as the quality of life that they experience prior to this. This course examines the common fears of dying people and what constitutes good care when someone is close to death, from both a physical and a psycho-social perspective. The course also allows time for participants to consider appropriate strategies for obtaining support themselves and is designed for those who are involved in providing care for dying people, whether in a formal, informal or voluntary capacity. It is appropriate for those working in a range of settings, including residential and nursing homes, and the dying person’s own home.

Person-centred care planning

Person-centred care ensures that older people are treated as individuals and receive appropriate and timely packages of support that meet their needs, regardless of health and social services boundaries. This course will explore the meaning of true person-centred care and examine methods, skills and tools for achieving it. It is designed for staff involved in care planning for older people who wish to understand, achieve and measure person-centred care.

Safeguarding adults

A significant number of older people still experience abuse in different settings and at the hands of different people. This course will identify the various forms that abuse can take, and those who are potentially at risk. The course also looks at possible reasons as to why abuse can happen, from the carer’s perspective and at referral procedures. It is designed for those who are working directly with older people and/or their carers, whether in residential, day-care, community or hospital settings.

Safeguarding children

This course will identify the various forms that abuse can take, and those who are potentially at risk. The course also looks at possible reasons as to why abuse can happen, from the carer’s perspective and at referral procedures. It is designed for those who are working directly with children, whether in residential, day-care, community, school or hospital settings

Dementia Awareness

The National Dementia Strategy indicates that it is paramount to overcome the increasing challenges that caring for an individual with dementia brings, and that the social-care workforce requires that carers and manager are well informed and able to provide the specialised care needed for those people experiencing dementia. This course explores theories as to the causes, signs and symptoms, therapies and treatments related to dementia. It will enable the participant to discuss difficult situations which they have experienced when working with dementia sufferers and identify strategies that would enhance the person-centred ethos that is advantageous for care providers in the delivery of effective care services.

Mental health and depression

Good mental well-being is not just about treatment; it’s also about prevention, and efforts to focus on the factors that take their toll on our well-being in the first place. Our course examines the issues of mental health and mental illness, including an introduction to schizophrenia, depression and dementia. It provides participants with information to increase awareness and understanding of these subjects, which is essential in order to identify good practice. This course is designed for those who are providing care for older people in any setting.

Nutrition, hydration and malnutrition Awareness

This course will allow individuals to recognise the causes and consequences of under-nutrition are important in ensuring the quality of life of an older person. Offering screening, support and high-quality food that is nutritionally balanced, fresh and appropriate improves the health of anyone. For older people, it is of even greater importance to maintain health, feelings of wellbeing and vitality. Our course has been designed for trained and untrained care staff, catering staff and anyone who works with older people and has a responsibility for monitoring their dietary and nutritional needs.

Train the Trainer

The aim of our course is to equip participants with the skills needed to run effective training for their staff. This course will provide an opportunity to explore the components of an effective training event. The course combines educational theory with practical experience to enable the participant to create staff-training sessions that really work. Time will be given to consider appropriate methods of training and communication, and there will be opportunities to discuss the management of group situations as well as handling more difficult people. This course is aimed at individuals who are fully competent in their subject area.

 

Challenging and Abusive Behaviour

This one day course is ideal for you if work or volunteer in care or support with clients who may constitute a threat to themselves and others. It is about enhancing your confidence in difficult situations by creating awareness and developing specific techniques. It is a foundation course that may lead to further study to develop your skills in this area, defining and developing an understanding of challenging and abusive behaviour, assessing scales of risk and learning to prepare reports on behavioural incidents, analysing situations with a view to future management, examining techniques to deal with problem behaviours and difficult feelings and emotions and developing personal strategies for coping with difficult situations and minimising stress.

Physical Intervention

The purpose of physical intervention training is to teach the candidates to take immediate control of a dangerous situation, in order to end or significantly reduce the risk of harm to the person and others around them. Physical intervention involves some form of physical contact and application of force to guide, restrict or prevent movement. This can include touching, guiding or escorting all the way up to holding, chemical or mechanical restraint and seclusion.

Participants will learn that any form of physical intervention must always be:

Reasonable, necessary and proportionate, conducted by appropriately trained and competent staff and combined with strategies to continuously de-escalate, the least restrictive possible, for the minimum amount of time, continually monitored for signs of medical/physical distress in the patient and formally recorded as soon as possible after the event.

Infection control

The participants will learn the main ways an infection can get into the body.  They will also demonstrate effective hand hygiene, explain how their own health or hygiene might pose a risk to the individuals they support or work with, list common types of personal protective clothing, equipment and procedures and how and when to use them, explain the principles of safe handling of infected or soiled linen and clinical waste, Healthcare Associated Infections, dealing with alert organisms, prevention of Healthcare Associated Infections, sharps, spillages, Personal Hygiene and cleaning

Medication Administration Training

Medication administration is an essential and key area of user/patient care.  Medication can be dangerous when misused but when used effectively is a very powerful tool to alleviate symptoms and improve or prolong a person’s life.  Healthcare workers are not only responsible for the safe delivery of medication but also upholding dignity, encouraging independence and respecting choices the service user/patient makes. This is an excellent refresher course for any member of the healthcare team.  Participants will learn; Legislation, the 7 rights of medication administration, classification and types of medication, routes into the body, maintaining records – MARs, types and reasons for errors, storing and disposing of medication, self-administration and supporting independence, contra indications and allergies and overdoses.

Diabetes Awareness Training

Individuals who are involved in diabetes management, Care workers, Care home managers. Healthcare professionals without specialist knowledge i.e. practice nurses as part of their continuous professional development (CPD), healthcare assistants and also people who work with people with diabetes.

Participants will be able to: Define diabetes and understand the different types, understand the basic principles in managing the care of a person with diabetes, recognise the symptoms and treat accordingly and understand how complications and lifestyle choices can affect a person with diabetes

Train the Trainer

The aim of our course is to equip participants with the skills needed to run effective training for their staff. This course will provide an opportunity to explore the components of an effective training event. The course combines educational theory with practical experience to enable the participant to create staff-training sessions that really work. Time will be given to consider appropriate methods of training and communication, and there will be opportunities to discuss the management of group situations as well as handling more difficult people. This course is aimed at individuals who are fully competent in their subject area.