Supported Housing - Management Training

SUPPORTED HOUSING TRAINING WORKSHOP

The content for all workshops covers the practice and evidence requirement for the appropriate Supporting People QAF standard.

Protection of Vulnerable Adults

Content:

• Ensure working practices comply with the SP QAR standards and the requirements of local adult protection framework
• Create an environment that is ‘Abuse Aware’ to prevent incidents of abuse
• Understand the role and responsibilities of the adult protection team
• The definitions and categories  of abuse
• Understand how abuse can occur
• Potential indicators of abuse
• Develop methods of working to create and maintain a safe environment for service delivery

Safeguarding Children & Young People

Content:

• Definitions and categories of abuse
• Concept of significant harm
• Potential indicators of abuse
• Exploring professional abuse and bad practice
• Roles and responsibilities
• Responding to concerns
• Reporting potential abuse
• Local authority child protection procedures

Professional Boundaries

Content:

The Managers role

• Understanding their role and responsibility in implementing a Professional Boundaries framework
• Ensure practice complies with and adheres to supporting people standards
• Induct, train and supervise staff within a clear Professional Boundaries framework of behaviours
• Recognise and deal with breaches of boundaries in an appropriate manner

The Front line staff

• Understand their role in developing and promoting Professional Boundaries within the staff team and organisation
• Define Professional Boundaries and determine appropriate service user interaction
• Understand appropriate self disclosure and confidentiality issues
• Understand the line between breaches of Professional Boundaries and the abuse of resident’s rights.
  

Person Centred Planning

Content:

• Needs and risk assessment to determine appropriate support levels
• Developing service user led support plans
• Create a structure for consistent and timely key working sessions
• Develop a non engagement process
• Develop a structured review structure
• Recognise the key skills required for effective person centred planning.

Motivational Interviewing

Content:

• Introduce the underlying principles, techniques and practice of M.I
• To identify the process by which change can occur and understand the role of workers in assisting movement through change
• To understand how M.I can be applied within Supported Housing services
• To Provide a client focused / led person centred approach to service delivery
• Demonstrate the skills in applying M.I.

Working with Sex Offenders

Content:

• Explore the personality and profile of sex offenders
• Understand their cycles of behaviour and offending
• Explore the need for structured risk assessment process to minimise risk to staff, current service users and the community
• Clarify the need for Professional Boundaries; determine the principles of good working practice and how to implement them when working with sex offenders.

Residents Rights

Content:

• Explore the issue of residents rights within the context of appropriate housing management practice
• Review current procedures and identify gaps in policy and Implementation
• Understand the key elements between rights, responsibilities and the organisations in providing a framework for consistent professional Implementation
• Identify and develop a strategy to implement resident’s rights which encompasses legal, ethnical and meets supporting people QAF requirements.