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PMVA- Prevention & Management of Violence & Aggression Training for the Health & Social Care Sector.

This PMVA (Prevention & Management of Violence & Aggression) course is designed for Health and Social Care staff supporting individuals who may display behaviour that challenges or experience distress.  

Our BILD ACT certified training aligns with the Restraint Reduction Network (RRN) Training Standards, supporting safer, more respectful and least restrictive approaches when responding to behaviour that challenges. 

It provides the knowledge and skills needed to respond professionally, empathetically, and confidently, ensuring the safety and well-being of both staff and those they support.  

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Suggested attendees.

Essential for professionals working across health and social care, mental health, learning disability and specialist care environments, this training equips teams with the skills to prevent escalation, reduce risk and respond proportionately while maintaining safety, dignity and meeting CQC expectations around least restrictive practice.

This training equips teams with the skills to prevent escalation, reduce risk, and respond proportionately while maintaining safety, dignity, and compliance with national standards. 

Our PMVA training is BILD ACT certified and aligned with the Restraint Reduction Network (RRN) Training Standards.

  • Residential & supported living staff – Care teams working in shared living environments who need confident, therapeutic responses to behaviours of concern, including safe boundaries and interventions when risk increases.
  • Frontline care staff – Staff working directly with individuals who may experience distress or behaviours that challenge. Build practical de-escalation skills and safer responses to protect everyone involved. 
  • Healthcare staff – Clinical teams supporting patients and families in high emotion environments such as wards, assessment units or community services.
  • Managers & service leaders – Leaders responsible for safety, consistency and staff support. Improve team-wide responses, decision-making in higher-risk moments, and post-incident learning and debrief. 

Course duration

3 Days

Course learners

12 Per Course

Trusted and accredited.

The Restraint Reduction Network (RRN) training standards are designed to ensure that any intervention used to manage challenging behaviour prioritises safety, dignity, and human rights.

As a Bild ACT certified course, our training aligns with these standards, promoting ethical standards that support the elimination of unnecessary restrictive practices.

Course content.

Click through our process slider to learn what to expect and what you will gain when taking this course.

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Part 1:

Exploring challenging behaviour.

  • Understand behaviours that challenge. 
  • Identify the importance of triggers and functions of behaviour. 
  • Recognise patterns in an individual’s behaviour. 
  • Emphasise a person-centred and rights-based approach. 

Part 2:

Primary strategies.

  • Develop pro-active strategies for prevention. 
  • Explore Positive Behaviour Support (PBS). 
  • Developing positive (therapeutic) relationships.

Part 3:

Secondary strategies.

  • Use communication and de-escalation models.
  • Apply listening models to defuse situations.
  • Prevent and de-escalate escalating behaviours.
  • Explore person-centred distraction and diversion strategies.

Part 4:

Procedural, environmental and legal responsibilities.

  • Understand the law relating to challenging behaviours and restrictive interventions.
  • Follow national guidelines to behavioural challenges.
  • Recognise the impact of inappropriate attitudes and cognitive biases. 
  • Explore the importance of incident reporting and recording. 
  • Understand the post-incident review process.

Part 5:

Physical skills.

  • Develop strategies to ensure safety in response to behaviours that challenge.
  • Use distance, stance and positioning effectively. 
  • Apply safe moving and relocation techniques. 
  • Practice breakaway and disengagement skills. 
  • Demonstrate agreed restrictive interventions. 

Part 6:

Foreseeable risks and medical implications.

  • Identify potential medical risks and implications of restrictive interventions including postural/positional asphyxia. 
  • Understand trauma and its impact onto experiences of restrictive interventions. 

Part 7:

By the end of this course your team will be able to:

  • Recognise challenging behaviour and its triggers. 
  • Apply a person-centred and rights-based approach.
  • Prevent and de-escalate potential behaviours.
  • Understand legal aspects of challenging behaviour and physical skills. 
  • Demonstrate physical skills for safety.
  • Document and record incidents effectively. 

 

Part 8:

At the end of this course learners will receive: 

  • A certificate of attendance. 
  • Receive a course workbook.
  • Access to IKON Academy digital online resource area.

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prevention & management of violence and aggression

To enquire about PMVA training, please get in touch.

PMVA (prevention & management of violence and aggression) training for Groups and Organisations. 

Our PMVA training is BILD ACT certified and aligned with the Restraint Reduction Network Training Standards, supporting health and social care organisations to develop confident, compassionate and lawful responses to behaviour that challenges. 

Call us on 01473 927 333

or email [email protected]

Please note – IKON Training does not currently offer PMVA Training for individuals or single learners, only group bookings.

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