Training

Training, awareness days, workshops and webinars

Our training looks to provide knowledge, upskill employees and remove barriers to people receiving the support they need.

An employee might;

Be reluctant to admit or ask for help.
Have feelings of shame – embarrassed to discuss issues.
Not realise their behaviours are harmful.
Be unaware of the available support.

For a supervisor, manager, HR staff, or someone that wants to support another person. They might;

Not be confident about approaching the person.
Not know enough about substance misuse.
Have limited time and resources.
Be unaware of local services.
Have their own unconscious biases.

The delivery of our training seeks to reduce the stigma and encourage people to come forward to receive the support they need and will in turn reduce risk in the workplace.

You can book or attend our education provision in a range of ways

Group in house delivery
Where we come into your workplace and deliver our sessions.
Individual delegate purchase
Where you purchase a seat at an existing training course.
Group accredited delivery
We deliver accredited courses that are useful to supplement existing CPD plans or educational programmes.

44% of respondents to our survey admitted that the use of alcohol or drugs had a negative impact on their work performance.

Institute of Alcohol Studies

Examples of the training we offer include:

Knowledge based training
Skills based training
Awareness campaigns
Promotional wellbeing days.

We deliver in range of formats;

Webinars
Online group delivery via Microsoft Teams, Webex, Zoom, Go-to and more
Audio
Face to face delivery
Taster/bitesize sessions
Short taught sessions
General knowledge sessions (interactive sessions)
Skills development workshops (interactive sessions with a chance to practice skills)
Drop-ins and brief advice (Open setting, walk-in or online/phone appointment).

We offer core, intermediate and advanced level content depending on the need.

Our courses include;

Workplace specific

Alcohol and drug awareness for employees
Problem gambling awareness for employees
Having the conversation about substance misuse for managers, supervisors, HR, Occupational Health
Resilience – managing stress and coping skills for wellbeing

We also offer a range of general courses

An introduction to alcohol and drugs awareness
Alcohol and drugs – delivering a brief intervention
Hidden Harm – Working with substance misusing parents
Working with families affected by substance misuse
Working with families for recovery
INROADS – preventing drink and drug driving
5-step bereavement training, working with people bereaved due to substance misuse
Courses on specific substances
Addiction Awareness
Understanding the stages of the Cycle of Change
An introduction to problematic gambling
Mental health and wellbeing
Suicide awareness training
An introduction to mental health
Working with people at risk of knife crime; managing risk and delivering an effective intervention
Risk in context – developing a balanced risk assessment in work with children and young people
Safeguarding children and young people
Child Exploitation
Safeguarding vulnerable adults
Information Governance
Equality and Diversity
Working with client resistance and challenging behaviour
Supervision for supervisees (a session on how direct reports can work with their manager/supervisor to ensure an effective, collaborative supervision arrangement)
Effective supervision training for frontline managers (a really useful session on effective line management and clinical supervision)
Working with inter-parental conflict and working with the harm it causes young people
Working with autistic clients.

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Evaluating our training delivery

Evaluation of the quality of our training is crucial to ensure we continuously improve our service and to meet the needs of our customers.

We provide customers with evaluation summaries developed using feedback from online delegate surveys. We evaluate the quality and measure the effectiveness of our training by using different aspects of the worldwide standard, Kirkpatrick’s Four-Level Training Evaluation Model – Reaction, Learning, Behaviour and Results.

Prices are available on application. Income from the service is invested in our existing charitable services. Thus, providing our services provides the dual benefit of supporting employees and serving the Corporate Social Responsibility agenda.

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