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A Range of free self management courses for anyone living with a long term health condition.  The courses are delivered by 2 lay tutors who themselves have a long term health condition. To find out more about the course and course dates please E'Mail:  julie.lawes@kirklees.nhs.uk

This is a half day course for professionals who have a basic knowledge of sexual health and how condom distribution (C-Card) schemes operate but require an understanding of the scheme and the core standards required to become part of the C-Card scheme in Kirklees.  All professionals wishing to provide C-Card at registration or distribution points must attend a C-Card scheme training session in Kirklees.  Training reinforces the importance of building a relationship with a young person. To find out about course dates and to book a place please contact:- T:  01484 481030

This 2 day training course will provide participants with the opportunity to devleop their knowledge and skills around the relationships and sexual health (RSH) needs of children and young people (CHYP).  The course will be run in 2 parts over 2 consecutive weeks, both parts must be attended.  All applicants have to attend both days of training and complete the e learning modules as stated and bring all required evidence to days 1 and 2. To find out about course dates and to book a place please contact:- 01484 481030

The aim of the training course is to improve your knowledge and skills around healthy eating and cooking in the community.  We aim to support and encourage you to deliver, cook and eat sessions on completion.  This course is not a cooking skills / catering course so applicants must have general recipe knowledge and kitchen skills. If you would like to find out more about this course and to book a place please e'mail the fine.project@kirklees.gov.uk 

A short and very interactive one day 'free' course, based around the key ehalthy eating messages for the general population.  The course covers:-

• 5 A Day
• The Eatwell Plate
• Food Labelling
• Fats, Sugars, Salts
• Fluids & Alcohol

For Training Dates and how to book on this course please e'mail the fine.project@kirklees.gov.uk  

Brief Interventions (BI) use a set of communication skills to help clients think about lifestyle behaviour change. The interventions vary from basic advice which takes a few minutes, to more extended, individually focused attempts to identify and change factors that influence lifestyle behaviour.  This introductory course provides an overview of the approach used in BI and an opportunity to develop and practice skills to help people make and maintain changes. Participants must attend this day (or must have attended similar training) prior to attending topic modules. The topic modules then build on this skill set by providing the latest information about the topic, and an opportunity for participants to practice the skills in relation to the topic. Additional training dates for both BI and topics will be added throughout the year, so look out for flyers or contact us.    

To update Intermediate Training Advisors about developments in stopping smoking. To book onto this course please contact Training.Bookings@kirkleeschs.nhs.uk

Provides an exploration into defining health and health promotion with an introduction to the theories and models that underpin the practice of health promotion. To understand the determinants of health and health inequalities.

Kirklees Communities & Leisure staff provide training to qualify interested individuals to lead health walks. The course will qualify individuals to lead health walks which are short group walks of up to 1 hour. These health walks are for people who have done little of no structured walking to participate with a view to health gain. The training offers information for walk leaders on the benefits of walking, health and safety, motivation and support, particularly in terms of setting up and runing walking groups.

Training will enable you to develop the knowledge, skills and confidence to engage people, in particular frailer older people in physical activity.  After completing the training course you will be supported to provide a range of safe, effective and appropriate activities, games walking and everyday physical activity opportunities.  To find out about course dates and to book your place please contact:- louiseh.taylor@kirklees.gov.uk 01484 234092

Care planning is a process which offers people active involvement in deciding, agreeing and owning how their long term condition will be managed.  It aims to help people with long term conditions to achieve optimum health through a partnership approach with health professionals in order to learn about their condition, how to manage it better and cope with it in their daily lives.  To find out about course dates and to book a place on this course please contact ann.wood@kirklees.nhs.uk

What is care planning?  The consultation, developing care planning skills and implementation of care planning within your role.  To find out about course dates and to book onto this course please contact ann.wood@kirklees.nhs.uk

What is Diabetes?  The annual check and what is care planning?  To find out about course dates and to book onto this course please contact ann.wood@kirklees.nhs.uk

This training helps clinicians work in partnership with patients to make their interactions as productive as possible.  The training helps to build the required process, joint agenda setting, goal setting and goal follow up into the delivery of clinical care building on care planning principles.  The training assists patients to explore their current beliefs about self management and provides practical tools to help you embed shared decision making in practice and thus support your patients to be empowered.  To find out about course dates and to book a place on this course please contact laura.jackson@chft.nhs.uk

This 2-day course will enable the health or social care practitioner to support people to make healthier choices to stay well and manage their long term condition, using a range of person centred approaches including cognitive behavioural approaches.  This course builds on skills learned in the previous modules as well as the Motivating Lifestyle Change Course.  It also explores the impact of mood on health and ways to address this and provides a range of models and tools to work through the complexity of living with a long term condition.  The training also helps professionals to consider how to support people to cope with relationsip changes, manage setbacks and address work related issues. This course is a 2 day course, for date of second day please e'mail:-phtrainingbookings@kirklees.nhs.uk  

To equip participants to register as Intermediate Advisors and set up and run weekly sessions to support people who want to stop smoking. For Booking Information & dates please contact:- training.bookings@locala-cic.nhs.uk

This course provides a basic level of alcohol awareness and explores attitiudes towards alcohol issues. It provides an insight into current issues around alcohol, guidance around safe drinking recommendations, along with an overview of national, regional and local prevalence. It also provides information on which services exist to signpost individuals on to.

Brief Interventions use a set of communication skills to help clients think about behaviour change. They vary from very basic advice which takes a few minutes, to more extended, individually focused attempts to identify and change factors that influence lifestyle behaviour. Day one provides and overview of the approach used in BI and an opportunity to develop and practice skills to help people make and maintain changes around healthy eating. Day two of the course will focus specifically on food.healthy eating related work with families and children; Participants will be enabled to put the learnt skills into practice.

This one day module builds on the knowledge and skills delivered on the Brief Interventions core training day. Participants will have an opportunity to gain an understanding of physical activity and identify key issues and the key physical activity messages suitable for a wide range of individuals, and to apply BI skills specifically to the topic area.

This course gives you the knowledge base to apply skills in lifestyle change to the specific issue of smoking cessation. If delegates do not have experience of brief interventions it will be necessary to attend a Lifestyle Change Skills course previous to the Smoking course. If you have attended this day please book onto the smoking course only

This course provides you with the skills and resources around how to carry out alcohol screening (using the AUDIT tool) and how to provide simple structured advice.  This course also provides you with an overview of the approach used in brief interventions and an opportunity to develop and practise your skills to help people make and maintain changes around their use of alcohol.  You will be introduced to a set of communication skills to help clients think specifically about their alcohol use and how to encourage lower risk drinking. If delegates do not have experience of brief interventions it may be necessary to attend the Brief Interventions Core Day training course previous to the Alcohol Module.  If you have already attended this training then please book onto the alcohol course only.

This nationally recognised and accredited training course introduces workers to a model of brief intervention designed to help couples and families experiencing relationship difficulties.  The course:-

• Will offer an opportunity to learn how relationships work and how they impact on children;
• Shows how to pick up signals of distress;
• Shows how to respond confidently to relationship problems;
• Will enable workers and their clients to get maximum benefit from brief interventions.

This is an interactive programme which builds on the communication skills used in Brief Interventions and other behaviour change approaches. It gives participants some practical tools to help in their consultations with patients/clients; as well as a theoretical framework which underpins evidence based behaviour change work. This coure runs over 2 full days.

More chances to learn and practice skills based on Cognitive Behavioural approaches to working with patients Skills to be covered:

• More on managing anxiety and panic, anger moods.
• Problem solving, unhelpful behaviours.
• Using daily activity logs to help self care.
• Supporting patients in measuring change.
• Using the public health resource centres to support you.

Join us to explore and develop and refresh your skills, share your patient experiences. It is an opportunity to address difficult issues in everyday practice.

This course provides participants with skills and resources around how to carry out alcohol screening (using the AUDIT tool) and how to provide simple structured advice to hazardous and harmful drinkers