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About NDT training
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The members
of the NDT consultant team are able and experienced trainers,
and bring rich and diverse experience to the delivery of training.
All training events provided by the NDT are tailored to the
needs of each participant group and organisation, and courses
can, if required be designed specifically to meet the needs
of the organisation or group. However, the training we offer
is mainly based on proven course designs, covering the areas
listed.
To find
out more, and to discuss your requirements, please either
email the person listed against the training course, or call
our main national office on 01473 836440.
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Person-centred
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Social Inclusion
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Risk assessment
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Training
for staff concerned with day services |
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Values |
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Leadership |
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Direct Payments |
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Training
for support brokers |
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Interaction skills |
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Empowerment,
advocacy, and choice |
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Person-Centred Approaches:
A range of courses that provide
an opportunity for individuals and those who support
and care about them to learn about planning in a person-centred
way, including taking the first steps to putting plans
into action, so that they can begin to protect what
is working well in their lives and try to change some
of the things that are not working for them. The NDT
encourages the participation of individuals with their
circles of support including family members and key
staff from the organisations that provide them with
services. Please see details
of the full range of training available.
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George Sapiets,
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Social
Inclusion Training
Most service agencies and
their staff recognise that social inclusion is something
they ought to support. Far fewer have many clear ideas
about how it can be progressed. This extensive, modular
suite of training aims to help agencies understand the
real meaning of social inclusion, and develop practical
strategies to make it happen. The fill training set consists
of 17 modules, each typically requiring half a day. These
can be selected on a 'pick and mix' basis to match requirements.
(You can download
a brochure with full details of the modules.) This
training has been designed and used to support social
inclusion for people with learning disabilities, and also
people with mental health needs. |
Jo Seddon ,
jseddon@ndt.org.uk |
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Risk assessment and risk
management
These interactive training
courses are intended for practitioners, clinicians, service
users and carers working with vulnerable adults and young
people. The courses are offered in partnership with Integras,
and are presented by Wendy Silberman and Robert J. Nisbet.
There are full details here. |
The NDT office, office@ndt.org.uk |
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Training for staff concerned
with day services
The NDT's extensive work
with day services includes a suite of training packages.
Details of these can be found on the day
service modernisation page. Other training, for example
on social inclusion and person-centred planning, is of
course very relevant to day services. |
Bill Love
blove@ndt.org.uk
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Challenging
Personal and Organisational Values:
Organisations often make
very bold ‘mission’ statements about the quality
of their services based on high principles and good intentions.
For people who are dependent on the services organisations
provide, the reality can often seem very different and
filled with broken promises.
People who work in these organisations (usually in a paid
capacity) are often caught in this conflict between what
they believe should be changing for the better and what
is actually happening (or rather not happening!). This
training provides the opportunity to explore how personal
beliefs and values are challenged by the ‘bigger
picture’ and why it can seem so difficult to put
‘values into action’. Please see details of
the full range of training available. |
George Sapiets, gsapiets@ndt.org.uk |
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Leadership
Training:
Leading to Better Services
Leadership is a term in
constant use in services, yet frequently misunderstood.
It doesn't mean, for example, that leaders have to be
a blend of Alexander the Great and Queen Elizabeth I!
This training - typically requiring 3-4 days - aims to
clarify the nature of leadership, and a values base for
leadership appropriate to modern health and social services.
It identifies a practical model for leadership, and considers
how leadership connects to person-centred approaches,
partnerships, and change management.Please see the separate
leadership page for
more details. |
Peter
Gilbert,
pgilbert@ndt.org.uk |
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Direct
Payments
Training is available
in a variety of formats, ranging from one-day introductory
sessions to four day courses focused on the the details
of setting up and using supports based on a Direct Payment.
Courses are also tailored to meet the needs of professionals,
users of services, and family members. See
the separate page for details. |
Andrew Bright,
abright@ndt.org.uk |
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Training for support brokers
The NDT offers training
courses for independent support brokers. The full, module-based
training requires 5 days (as a block or spread over several
weeks), and can include assessment for accreditation.
However, each course will need to be tailored to local
requirements. This training has been developed and refined
through experience of broker training both in the UK and
USA. |
Steve Dowson,
sdowson@ndt.org.uk |
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Helpful Interactions:
reviewing and improving
the way staff relate to service users
It’s of course vitally
important that health and social care workers are fully
in tune with progressive policies, equipped with the right
technical skills, and committed to sound values. But those
strengths will be seriously undermined if they aren’t
reflected in the quality of interactions between staff
and services users. It’s these interactions –
everyday, ordinary exchanges – that combine to make
conversations, which in turn build relationships, and
which ultimately shape the culture of the service as a
whole.
So how skilful and perceptive are staff in the way they
talk to service users? Can they be supportive without
being suffocating? Challenging yet still respectful? Do
they know when to invite people to ‘open up’,
and when it’s better to leave issues unexplored?
This one-day training offers a simple framework for looking
at the different ways that we can choose to respond to
people, and uses a series of exercises to help participants
review their own skills and habits in using each one.
As time allows, the last part of the session provides
an opportunity for participants to apply the framework
to specific workplace issues. |
Steve Dowson,
sdowson@ndt.org.uk |
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Empowerment, advocacy, and
choice
Starting from a fresh look
at the real meaning of these over-used words, this training
provides an opportunity to re-think the way in which organisations
enable people to take control of their own lives. |
Steve
Dowson,
sdowson@ndt.org.uk |
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