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Safe Holding and Restraint, for carers working with older people is a course we developed specifically for the care home sector, using guidance from national regulatory and guidance bodies. It offer staff and managers greater information with which to make good decisions about restraint.
Understanding Restraint and Safe Holding
(for Staff working with Older People in Care- 1 Day)
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this course, your staff will have successfully completed all the necessary learning outcomes for the award of an Edexcel-accredited and NFPS-approved certificate of competency.
Staff who successfully complete this course will understand:
•What actions can be defined as ‘restraint’, with reference to National level guidance.
•The legal and ethical frameworks relevant to restraint, common and criminal law regarding the use of Reasonable Force to prevent harm from occurring.
•Health and Safety Implications of restraint in care environments, including risk-reduction and risk-control measures and procedures.
•How to minimise the need for restraint and Alternatives to restraint, with reference to National-level guidance and research in the field of Challenging Behavour in people with Dementia.
•How to recognise when restraint may in fact be abuse.
•The correct application of physical restraint skills and procedures using approved and risk-assessed NFPS methods of holding.
•The Principles regarding Duty of Care
•Circumstances in which restraint should be used
•Risks and inappropriate methods of restraint, with reference to methods of control which have been proscribed due to their inappropriateness or their inherent serious risk of injury or death.
Other Information
This is our 1-Day Understanding Restraint with Older People in Care course.
Our 2-Day Managing Challenging Behaviour in Dementia course, including these topics, is here.
National Minimum Standards for Care Homes for Older People (S) state that the resident should: “know that the care home has a written policy and procedures on the conditions when restraint is used, and that staff are fully trained and supported in the use of restraint".
This training course is suitable for Care Workers, Nurses, Support Workers and other staff who may look after service users who can demonstrate high levels of vulnerability or risk.
Our courses are always tailored to the environment in which they are delivered, using national-level guidance and legal standards.
“Found the course to be very interesting and informative as restraint has changed a lot since I last trained”
-Senior Staff Nurse, Care Home for Older People
