Courses and Events

Introduction to Personality Disorders – 1 day course

Course description: To give an overview to frontline staff of Personality Disorders – what the diagnosis means, what it means for your work with service users and how you can play a positive role in the relationship you have with service users with Personality Disorders.

Aimed at: Anyone who works directly with service users with diagnosed or undiagnosed Personality Disorders. This course is relevant to Support Workers, Project Managers and others who will benefit from an understanding of Personality Disorders.

Course Outline:

• What is Personality Disorder – an overview
• Types of Personality Disorder
• Case study – impact on life
• What it means for us as frontline staff
• Positive ways of working
• Best practice action plans

8th November 2011 – Ivy House, Catford – 9:30 – 4:30
22nd March 2012 – central office, Holloway Road – 9:30 – 4:30

Cost: £125 per participant (this course is also available as an in-house course, contact us for further information)

Equal Opportunities and Diversity Workshops

Course objectives: By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

• recognise prejudice, discrimination, harassment and bullying in the workplace and tackle it effectively and fairly through the implementation of the Equal Opportunities Policy
  
• understand the benefits of diversity and its application to the supported housing environment.
  

Course Outline:

• Definitions of equality and diversity
• Legislation and policies
  
• Harassment and bullying
  
• Diversity
  
• Application to work

20th January 2012 – Ivy House, Catford, London – 10:00 – 13:00

Cost: £65 for a half-day course

Project-Based Working Methods

Course description: This half-day session gives an introduction to some project management techniques that can be applied by everyone in their work. Aimed at: This course will be most relevant to those given responsibility for one-off tasks which will include working with others. Course objectives: By the end of this course, participants will be able to…

• Identify what makes a successful start-up to a project;
  
• Use a Gantt chart to plan a project;
  
• Understand the importance of monitoring performance and risk during a project;
  
• Successfully close a project. 

Course Outline:

• What is a project?
  
• Skills required to delivery a successful project
  
• Project Initiation
  
• Planning
  
• Monitoring and reporting
  
• Risk management
  
• Project close-down and lessons learnt

Duration and date:

15 November 2011 – central office, Holloway Road – 9:30 – 13:30

Cost: £65 for a half-day course