Managing Challenging Behaviour (Practical) - Local Authority & Housing Sector
Course outline
Learn techniques to prevent harm due to challenging behaviour while maintaining a safe and supportive service where an ongoing duty of care exists.
This course teaches staff to remove themselves from a potentially dangerous situation and safely hold or relocate whilst understanding the medical and legal implications of using techniques.
Suggested attendees
All frontline staff and all those facing challenging or aggressive behaviour.
This Local Authority & Housing Managing Challenging Behaviour Practical training course is aimed at all staff including:
- All new employees
- Those facing challenging or aggressive behaviour
- Children’s Services
- Teaching Staff
Course content
Distance, stance and positioning
- Positive body language
- Reactionary gap
Relocation and distraction
- Balance displacement techniques
- Safe moving/relocation of an individual to a safe location
Restrictive interventions
- Legal framework to support decision making
- What is restraint?
- Standing and seated interventions to keep individuals safe
Medical implications of techniques
- Identifying medical implications of restrictive interventions
- Recognising the risks of physical skills
By the end of this course your team will be able to:
- Demonstrate positive body language and distancing
- Safely remove themselves from an individual
- Demonstrate physical skills to keep yourself and individuals safe
- Recognise the risks and medical implications of physicals skills
At the end of this course your team will receive:
- A certificate of attendance
- Access to a dedicated delegate resource area via IKON Academy
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Duration 3.5 hours
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Delegates 12 Max
Delivery methods
Face-to-face
training
Many of our courses, especially those with physical skills, can be delivered in a face-to-face in-person training environment, either at your venue or ours.
Train the
trainer
IKON’s train the trainer service enables your team to deliver empowering motivational and insightful training that builds confidence and trust with their colleagues.
Other local authority & housing courses
- Breakaway Training
- Conflict Resolution Training
- Conflict Resolution & Personal Safety Training
- Lone Worker Training
- Managing Challenging Behaviour – Theory Training
- Resolving Telephone Conflict Training
- Safety Pod - Children's Services Training
- Safety Pod Refresher - Children's Services Training
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Fantastic course, really helpful, the trainers had so much experience in this field, they could answer and queries we had. Really enjoyed it, thank you.
Great trainer, humorous, attentive, knowledgeable, great pace. Learnt a lot. Good to refresh sections after each task. Practical was excellent too. Very, very good indeed!