Safe Holding and Restraint

for Staff Working with Older People

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:

1. •What actions can be defined as ‘restraint’, with reference to National level guidance.
   

1. •The legal and ethical frameworks relevant to restraint, common and criminal law regarding the use of Reasonable Force to prevent harm from occurring.
   

1. •Health and Safety Implications of restraint in care environments, including risk-reduction and risk-control measures and procedures.
   

1. •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.
   

1. •How to recognise when restraint may in fact be abuse.
   

1. •The correct application of physical restraint skills and procedures using approved and risk-assessed NFPS methods of holding.
   

1. •The Principles regarding Duty of Care
   

1. •Circumstances in which restraint should be used
   

1. •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.
   

1. •The issues of ‘wandering’, the use of bed rails and ‘disengagement’.
   

dynamis insight training typically encompasses a wide range of learning approaches, including Lecture Presentations, Group Discussion, Question & Answer, assessment by Observed Performance, Case Study and assessment by Written Exam.

All instructors on our courses have achieved nationally and internationally acknowledged qualifications, chief among them the BTEC Advanced Awards in Coaching Physical Restraint, Breakaway Skills and the Law, ensuring that your staff are trained by competent, skilled communicators