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Positive Response Training
| Number of Places: |
12 |
| Venue: |
Hucclecote Rugby Football Club |
| Time: |
9.15 am - 16.30 pm |
| Dates: |
2005/6:
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| Facilitator |
Rob Jefferies, PRT Co-ordinator |
Positive Response
Training (PRT) may be accessed by staff working within
Learning Disability Services and Older Persons Services for
Mental Health, Gloucestershire Partnership NHS Trust.
This Training covers
both preventative and reactive Positive Response Training
strategies, having both a theory and practical element, and
is mandatory for practitioners in designated roles within
the Trust.
The course
objectives are that following the training all participants
will be able to:
- Understand the principles of PRT.
- Understand the need for
individualised approach to the prevention and safe
management of Challenging Behaviour and aggressive
outbursts.
- Clearly
understand how to react in the event of an aggressive
incident.
- Recognition and
effective management of individual triggers for
Challenging Behaviour.
- Employ all PRT
strategies safely and appropriately.
- Implement
appropriate PRT technique with an awareness of the
potential risks to both service users and staff.
- Clearly
distinguish between pro-active and reactive strategies.
- Confidently
support an individual who may be distressed when called
upon to do so.
The Training
involves a certain amount of physical exertion and
participants will be required to wear strong, loose and
comfortable clothing for the sessions.
All staff attending
the course must recognise that they have a personal
responsibility to disclose anything that mat not be
immediately obvious to course trainers such as existing
injuries which may be aggravated by the training or body
piercing which may cause injury to yourself or others.
No responsibility
will be taken by Trainers should any injury occur through
any undisclosed circumstance.
Course
Facilitator:
Rob Jefferies,
PRT Co-ordinator
Learning
Disability Services
Gloucestershire
Partnership NHS Trust
Tel: 07778 529399
Course
Administration:
Collingwood House
Tel: 01452 891257
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