Training

Training provided by the Dementia Centre is designed to support dementia care in a range of settings. Our staff will work with you to ensure that training programmes are designed to meet your organisational needs. 

You have a range of options when considering your training and it is important that you choose a programme or course that is directly transferable to your work place.

Examples of training programmes are given below and dates of forthcoming training events can be viewed at our events website. Members of the training team are also available to present or facilitate at conferences and workshops.

Please register your interest in any of these courses and we will send you further information.

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Best Practice in Dementia Care: a six part self-study course for care home staff, healthcare support workers, day centre staff and domiciliary care staff

Healthcare support workers from the Morris Feinmann home in Manchester receive their certificates. Reproduced by courtesy of the Jewish Telegraph Group of Newspapers. www.jewishtelegraph.com.

We train one of  your staff members as a facilitator to deliver this programme to eight staff members in your workplace using a cascade approach. This course is appropriate for staff in day care, care homes and healthcare support workers in hospitals. This course is accredited by the RCN and City & Guilds.

The following three courses are available to frontline staff working within public and private care organisations.

1. Care home course - for staff working in care home and day care settings.
2. Healthcare Support Worker course - for staff working in hospitals and day hospital settings.
3. Domiciliary Staff – for staff working in re-ablement teams, home care and community staff.

Format: This course involves our centre training a senior member of your staff team as a facilitator who will then deliver the course material over 6 months back in the workplace with our regular support.

Download best practice course flyer

To book for any of these courses, please contact Dawn Humble on 01786 467740 or d.a.humble@stir.ac.uk.

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The Manager as leader of dementia practice

An experiential management and leadership course.

Length: Two days followed by a further two days after completion of a work based project. The training can take place at Stirling, Belfast, London or at a venue local to you.

Download Manager as Leader course flyer

If you earn £22,000 or less per year and you live in Scotland, you may be eligible for ILA funding, contact ILA Scotland for more details.

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Bespoke work based training

An individualised training programme in your own workplace for frontline staff in dementia care

Length: Either a half, one or two days training at a venue local to you

Download the bespoke training general flyer

The programme will be agreed with you to ensure that aspects of dementia care that are most important to your workplace are included.

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Meaningful activities for people with dementia

This course is for staff who are responsible for co-ordinating activities for people with dementia within a care setting.

Length: Three days followed by a further half day one month later.

If you earn £22,000 or less per year and you live in Scotland, you may be eligible for ILA funding, contact ILA Scotland for more details.

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Principles and practice for effective person centred assessment of people with memory problems

This course will equip staff with the skills to undertake the assessment of a person presenting with a memory complaint. It will provide the necessary knowledge for engagement, assessment and sharing the diagnosis. The delegates will have access to an evidence based evidence portfolio to inform their current practice, and work towards assisting in uncovering the presence of dementia.

Length: Two days

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Home Care Practice Licence (HCPL)

This is a learning, assessment and quality assurance process to check the competency of home care workers and is ideal for induction and ongoing support. Written in plain English, HCPL provides on the job assessment within eight weeks to ensure that home care workers are competent to carry out their work. Its objective test model provides organisations with detailed results of the gaps in their workers' training as well as provide indicators on the effectiveness of the organisation's own in-house induction programmes. View further information on HCPL.

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Please register your interest in any of these courses and we will send you further information. 

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DSDC will be running one day events at the Iris Murdoch Building throughout the year, please check back here and on our events website for regular updates.