Course Deliv­ery

The SSS course con­sists of blended: 

• Online pre-course learn­ing and assess­ment that must be com­plet­ed one week pri­or to the course — approx. 3hrs of study. 
• One-day face to face work­shop includ­ing lec­tures, group work and sce­nario-based learn­ing activities. 

Par­tic­i­pants of this course will have covered: 

Core (Clin­i­cal & Non-Clinical)

• Medico-legal prin­ci­ples, lit­er­a­ture & guidelines 
• Remote health & safe­ty risks
• Men­tal health literacy
• Pre­dis­pos­ing factors 
• Inci­dent reporting
• Social & inter­per­son­al factors 
• Self-aware­ness & self-care
• Com­mu­ni­ca­tion skills
• De-esca­la­tion tech­niques — ver­bal and non-verbal
• Equip­ment – alarms

Clin­i­cal Staff

• Man­ag­ing dif­fi­cult behaviours
• Risk assess­ment and safe­ty tools
• Advanced de-esca­la­tion
• Emer­gency procedures

On suc­cess­ful com­ple­tion of this course, par­tic­i­pants will be able to:

• Demon­strate an under­stand­ing of the impor­tance of occu­pa­tion­al health and safe­ty and rel­e­vant leg­is­la­tion, prin­ci­ples and guidelines; 
• Explain how the most sig­nif­i­cant threats to remote work­force health and safe­ty are con­trolled with­in your work; and 
• Iden­ti­fy, assess and respond to aggres­sion and vio­lence accord­ing to their needs and abilities.

If you have any queries about the course or its rel­e­vance to your prac­tice, sub­mit an enquiry here.