What are the risks of Distressed Behaviour in Care Homes?
Distressed Behaviours in Care Homes – what are the risks? We have met hundreds of care home staff in our training sessions, and this article aims to clarify some of the issues related to managing aggression and violence with older people, or vulnerable adults in care. We recently received gratitude from a client company that […]
How many people should we train in positive handling in our school?
Questions we often get asked at Dynamis are how many people should we train in positive handling skills? Should we train the whole staff team or should we train a specialist group? There is no specific guidance available about what is the ‘correct’ number of staff to train in positive handling at your school, however there […]
Restraint Reduction Outcomes
Restraint Reduction OutcomesThe new trainer team for this service began rolling out their own programme (a four-day, full-spectrum course for their LD/MH setting) to their staff in October. By December, they had seen dramatic restraint reduction outcomes in key indicators such as time-in-restraint, floor-based-restraints and number-of-restraints for their high-frequency service users. “The amount of […]
Breakaway training in care
Breakaway training in care – an example of positive outcomes At one point early in the training programme it becomes important to look at physical self-protection training, especially if the service data shows that some service users, when distressed, target staff with violence by grabbing, hitting or throwing objects at them. In the past, the […]
Becoming an effective PMVA Trainer
Probably the most important decision a company makes when it wants to change the culture of their workplace is this: Which personalities will lead the training effort? In this case, the organisation chose three of their most senior carers, who had all been in the service for long enough to know the common flashpoints, […]
social contract in restraint reduction
The Social Contract in Restraint Reduction What happens when people can’t predict with any certainty how an organisation will respond to their transgression of an agreement? If a social contract is broken, and the consequences could slide on a scale from ‘nothing’ to ‘serious’ – how many people would take the chance to break the contract? […]
Training needs analysis for restraint reduction
This is an excerpt from our 18-page Case-Study about how we achieved significant Restraint Reduction outcomes with this training programme. To read the case study and learn about the project, please visit our Restraint Reduction page. continued… In line with our accredited quality assurance process with the Institute for Conflict Management, and with the cooperation of […]
A new Train the Trainer Approach our clients love, called SCENA
SCENA is a scenario-driven train-the-trainer approach, which is based on evidence and research about learning. It gives trainers a format for delivering conflict and physical interventions training which is effective, engaging and efficient.
Restraint Reduction Trainer Development
This is an excerpt from our 18-page Case-Study about how we achieved significant Restraint Reduction outcomes with a Restraint Reduction Trainer Development. To read the case study and learn about the project, please visit our Restraint Reduction page. continued… The results of our recent Restraint Reduction Trainer Developmentproject with a small team of new trainers in […]
NHS Security Officers Training Course successful
Dynamis Training offers a physical intervention programme for NHS Security Officers (HCSO) which provides: -a fundamental legal underpinning knowledge of the principles for effective decision-making -appropriate physical skills which are adaptable across the spectrum of subject categories which an officer can encounter -sufficient scenario-based practice and immersion which effectively builds the required skills for this […]