2021 – 2022 Training Schedule

Mentoring in Practice is a recognised qualification endorsed by Open College West Midlands. Learners will receive 7 guided learning session and are required to undertake additional independent learning tasks after each taught session.

The course is designed to equip individuals to understand the role of a Mentor, deliver safe mentoring practice and have the ability to deliver practical mentoring sessions, tailored to the needs of individual mentees.

The course covers the below areas:

• History and Meaning of Mentoring
• Boundaries and Confidentiality in a Mentoring relationship
• Communication and Learning Styles in a Therapeutic Environment
• Safeguarding in a Mentoring Practice
• Delivery of practical Mentoring sessions, tailored to the needs of individual mentees.
• Measuring the impact of Mentoring.

Please note this course is level 3 standard and requires learners to complete and submit a number of relevant assignments.

During  this course learners will:

• Consider what defines ‘Mentoring’ and explore the key differences between mentoring and other closely related disciplines
• Be introduced to the Mentoring Cycle
• Consider the role of boundaries within a mentoring relationship.
• Have the opportunity to explore how resources can be used to plan and deliver effective mentoring sessions both online and in a face to face environment

This CPD Approved course will give professionals an introduction/refresher in Safeguarding.

Participants will leave the session confident that they can act effectively and appropriately in response to the safeguarding and protection of children, young people and adults.

Key Learning Outcomes

• Understand what safeguarding in children and adults means
• Know key safeguarding legislation and guidance
• Understand the need for effective safeguarding
• Know the different categories of abuse and maltreatment
• Recognise the behavioural and physical indicators of abuse and maltreatment
• Know how to respond and report safeguarding concerns including how to handle disclosures of abuse
• Understanding the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on Safeguarding

Book via email to training@ourplacesupport.org

This 2.5 hour course is aimed at professionals working with children, young people and adults at risk and specifically individuals that take a lead on safeguarding for their organisation.

When making safeguarding referrals it is essential to ensure that the information we submit is clear, concise and evidence based giving detail on What, When, Where and How.

This course will equip you to gather and present the best evidence of your concerns at referral point so that an appropriate response can be made, reducing the chance of children, young people or adults at risk, not receiving the immediate safeguarding response required.

Key learning outcomes:

• To be able to define ‘Evidence’
• To have a good understanding of the ‘Evidence Funnel’.
• To use effective questioning skills to gather accurate evidence at the point of disclosure.
• To know how to record and present evidence effectively to demonstrate safeguarding concerns.

This course is delivered by Claire-Denby Knight, a professional trainer and Former Police Officer with a background in Safeguarding and is suitable for all professionals with a safeguarding responsibility including education, youth and housing sectors, HR departments and local councils.

This full day course introduces participants to Child Abuse Linked to Faith and Belief.

The course addresses how our cultures and beliefs have shaped our current understanding of childhood and safeguarding practices; and how certain child rearing practices and attitudes towards children and young people is identified as abuse.  Participants will learn about the various categories of child abuse linked to faith and belief; it’s prevalence within the UK; the impact on victims and how best to approach any safeguarding concerns in a sensitive manner.

Key Learning Outcomes:

• Understand a brief history of childhood and safeguarding legislation in the United Kingdom
• Define what child abuse linked to faith and belief is and understand its context in today’s society
• Recognise the need for awareness of child abuse linked to faith and belief
• Identify the different categories of child abuse linked to faith and belief
• Recognise the different symptoms and signs of child abuse linked to faith and belief
• Know how to effectively respond to safeguarding concerns of child abuse linked to faith and belief

Mentoring in Practice is a recognised qualification endorsed by Open College West Midlands. Learners will receive 7 guided learning session and are required to undertake additional independent learning tasks after each taught session.

The course is designed to equip individuals to understand the role of a Mentor, deliver safe mentoring practice and have the ability to deliver practical mentoring sessions, tailored to the needs of individual mentees.

The course covers the below areas:

• History and Meaning of Mentoring
• Boundaries and Confidentiality in a Mentoring relationship
• Communication and Learning Styles in a Therapeutic Environment
• Safeguarding in a Mentoring Practice
• Delivery of practical Mentoring sessions, tailored to the needs of individual mentees.
• Measuring the impact of Mentoring.

Please note this course is level 3 standard and requires learners to complete and submit a number of relevant assignments.

This CPD Approved course will give professionals an introduction/refresher in Safeguarding.

Participants will leave the session confident that they can act effectively and appropriately in response to the safeguarding and protection of children, young people and adults.

Key Learning Outcomes

• Understand what safeguarding in children and adults means
• Know key safeguarding legislation and guidance
• Understand the need for effective safeguarding
• Know the different categories of abuse and maltreatment
• Recognise the behavioural and physical indicators of abuse and maltreatment
• Know how to respond and report safeguarding concerns including how to handle disclosures of abuse
• Understanding the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on Safeguarding

Book via email to training@ourplacesupport.org

A large amount of energy goes into hiding our emotions and yet they provide the real and authentic essence of who we are and our potential. This workshop gives you starter steps in the journey of how to use our emotions so that they don’t control us!

Learning Outcomes:

• A good understanding of the EQ model
• The importance of developing EQ for yourself and for others
• Understanding and identifying where you are with your EQ
• Be able to use this knowledge to support further learning and wellbeing