Team Teach Positive Handling (12 hours)

This course will provide:

Our engaging Level Two course (12 hr) in positive behaviour management is available for organisations supporting children, young people and vulnerable adults with documented special needs or challenging behaviours, and who may pose a risk to themselves or others in medium-risk Education and Health and Social Care settings.  We believe that all behaviour is communication being driven by experiences and emotions.  We deliver a toolkit approach that is 95% understanding behaviours and encouraging de-escalation.  The 5% assesses the need for physical intervention in conjunction with a needs analysis.  Our training emphasises positive relationships as being the key element in behaviour support, with physical techniques serving as only one part of an overall approach.  As such, it is entirely compatible with Positive Behaviour Support (PBS) approaches. 

Learning Aims
Participants will learn how to;

• Understand the drivers and motivations displayed by individuals who are distressed and may become aggressive and disruptive.
• Build a stronger team confidence around supporting behaviour
• Utilise a toolkit of holistic strategies on de-escalation and crisis intervention, including the importance of targeted communication, both verbal and non-verbal.
• Understand and know relevant legal standards and expectations related to use of force, and of the reporting, recording, monitoring and evaluating requirements of incidents involving physical controls and reasonable force.
• Execute simple and safe positive handling and personal safety techniques: including guiding, escorting and holding in standing, sitting and kneeling positions safely, appropriate for your service setting needs, which focus on maximum care - minimum force.
• Improve expertise and confidence in staying safe, competence to carry out simple de-escalation strategies, and applying physical intervention in conjunction with a needs analysis

 

Programme/Module Outline:

This course is organised into eight modules:

• Module 1 - Background to Team Teach
• Module 2 - The Legal Framework
• Module 3 - Understanding Aggression
• Module 4 - How Feelings Drive Behaviours
• Module 5 - De-escalation and De-fusion
• Module 6 - Personal Safety
• Module 7 - Positive Handling – including guiding, escorting and holding in standing, sitting and kneeling positions safely*
• Module 8 - Repair, Reflection and Review

*The techniques delivered will be appropriate to the service settings of the group.

To book onto this course or to make an enquiry, please contact us: rmsolutions@r-i-t.org

 

Please note that enrolment on any Team Teach course, requires membership to their platform; Team Teach Connect. The platform forms part of how training is delivered and membership to it is also a condition of certification. The annual membership fee is £170 + VAT (1-24 staff) £220 + VAT (25+ staff) per school and will be payable by you to Team Teach following completion of the course on receipt of the invoice.