'Key Trainer' Advanced Skills Workshops – New Public Courses in 2018

Monday, 11th December 2017

These one day ‘key trainer’ workshops have been designed to reflect changes within the care sector and to further advance the moving and handling and risk assessing skills and knowledge of EDGE-trained key trainers.

The workshops will focus on the following topics:

Single -handed Care Packages

Discussing the complexities of the risk assessment process and subsequent decisions which need to be very carefully considered when delivering single handed care packages to reduce hazards to both the client and the staff. Delegates will practise safe handling techniques using appropriate equipment.

Complex People Handling Risk Assessment

Discussing how to undertake risk assessments, select the correct equipment and make the best decisions regarding moving and handling techniques when delivering profoundly complex care packages in the community and in care home/supported living environments. Delegates will complete a complex people handling risk assessment during this session.

Bariatric Handling

Discussing the most appropriate way of moving and handling obese or severely obese individuals whose biomechanics may be altered. Using a ‘bariatric empathy suit’ to recreate the moving and handling of a larger person to best effect, delegates will practise safe handling techniques using specialist equipment.

Manual Handling of Very Complex Care Needs

Discussing how to undertake risk assessments, select the correct equipment and make the best decisions regarding moving and handling techniques for adult clients who have profoundly complex care packages for example: spinal injuries, a complex diagnosis like Huntington’s Disease, cerebral palsy etc. Delegates will practise safe handling techniques using appropriate equipment.

For a full overview of each of our one day ‘Key Trainer’s Workshops’ please visit our course page https://edgeservices.co.uk/courses/

Available across the UK as in-house training events, we have also set public course dates for April 2018 in York and for September 2018 in Birmingham. We hope to roll the workshops out to some of our other public course locations in 2019.

Places are limited on the public events so book yours today!