Champion Courses for Care Staff
What will the champion do?
- Promote best practice skills, providing a link between theory and practice.
- Provide motivation & supplementary development to staff (where appropriate) within their job role.
- Act as a named point of contact for staff, their clients & carers.
- Provide professional information and signposting to staff, their clients & carers.
- Work and liaise with other champions for support and sharing of ideas.
Current 2-day Subject Specific Champion Courses are:
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Infection Prevention & Control Champion
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End of Life Champion
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Medication Champion
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Safeguarding Champion
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Dignity Champion
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MCA & DoLs Champion
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Diabetes Champion
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Person Centred Care Champion
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Dementia Champion
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Epilepsy Champion
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1 Day Course on How to become a Champion in the Social Care Sector
Aims
To have a greater understanding of how to become a Champion in the Social Care
Objectives
- To describe the role, responsibilities & skills of being a Champion
- To recognize peoples different learning styles & teaching methods
- To explore how to prepare a positive learning environment
- To be able to develop and perform/deliver/demonstrate a short presentation/microteach/mini form of learning session using different learning methods.
- To describe how to provide productive feedback/evaluation.
- To be able to perform different types of icebreakers.
- To look at different ways of presenting information.
- To clarify some ‘Do’s and don’ts’ in a learning environment.
- Ways of how to promote best practice in your organisation.
The delegates will be expected to prepare PRIOR TO ATTENDING this course a short 15 minute presentation/microteach on the subject that they are going to become a Champion in. This will be presented/demonstrated and discussed during the course.