Publish date: 3 April 2024
The safeguarding team have produced a training brochure which outlines the mandatory Safeguarding training requirements for staff. In addition, they are offering bitesize remote learning opportunities, which will be themed and accessible for any staff who feel they would benefit.
This year some new topics have been added as well as some quarterly Safeguarding updates.
The 10 modular packages listed below, are available to book and are open to all staff, if you feel you will benefit from the learning.
Find out more about each session in the drop downs below.
Each quarter the Divisional Safeguarding Leads will host online conversations to share information relating to the Safeguarding Activity, Trends and Themes arising in your own area of practice.
These sessions provide the opportunity to:
- Share key insights into the type of safeguarding concerns most prevalent within the Trust divisions.
- Using data to highlight the divisional Safeguarding Activity and Positive Outcomes for Service Users and Staff
- Divisional updates from local and national safeguarding reviews and the lessons that are specific to supporting practice in your division.
All sessions facilitate reflection through conversation and will be recorded on MySupervision to evidence your involvement in reflective safeguarding learning.
The following sessions will be hosted throughout the year and are bookable by emailing Safeguarding.training@merseycare.nhs.uk
1. Safeguarding Adults Mental Health Division - Wednesday 26 June 2024, 11am to 12pm
2. Safeguarding Children Mental Health Division - Tuesday 30 July 2024, 2pm to 3pm
3. Safeguarding Adults Community Division - Wednesday 30 October 2024, 2.30pm to 3.30pm
4. Safeguarding Children Community Division - Thursday 12 December 2024, 2pm to 3pm
Child exploitation is one of the most challenging safeguarding issues that society is faced with.
This training will enable practitioners to describe the dynamics of child criminal exploitation, county lines and child sexual exploitation.
It will support practitioners in recognising signs and indicators of child exploitation.
The training will increase knowledge and understanding of multi-agency roles and responsibilities in relation to referral mechanisms, information sharing and record keeping when child exploitation is suspected or evidenced.
Dates Available (from 1.30pm to 3.30pm):
- Thursday 4 July 2024
- Wednesday 9 October 2024
- Tuesday 14 January 2025
This session will explore sexual exploitation of adults at risk, including online abuse and grooming. It will also look at financial abuse, cuckooing and county lines. By the end of the session, learners will understand what makes an adult vulnerable to these kinds of abuse and what to do if you suspect it is happening.
Dates Available (2pm to 4pm):
- Tuesday 10 September 2024
- Tuesday 21 January 2025
- Tuesday 18 March 2025
This training will give you an understanding of what is meant by Voice of the child, (VOC).
Enable you to understand the importance of VOC and how capturing these impacts working with C&YP.
Enable you to be able to discuss ways of capturing VOC in every- day work.
Dates available (9.30am to 11.30am):
- Thursday 20 June 2024
- Tuesday 15 October 2024
- Thursday 23 January 2025
This training will enable participants to develop an awareness of Adult Self-Neglect and hoarding, identify causes and characteristics, explore effective support strategies and tools/resources available to manage high risk cases.
Participants will learn when/at what point to notify the local authority and how to build effective relationships with patients in this situation and remove or reduce associated risks.
Dates available:
- Monday 17 June 2024, 10am to 12pm
- Wednesday 16 October 2024, 1.30pm to 3.30pm
- Tuesday 25 February 2025, 10am to 12pm
This training session will provide you with enhanced Safeguarding Adults knowledge. The session will explore the difference between statutory and non-statutory safeguarding as well as look in depth at consent and when consent can and should be overridden. Furthermore, we will look at what makes a good safeguarding adults referral.
We will also include learning from Safeguarding Adults Reviews and Domestic Abuse Related Death Reviews and how this learning has and should impact our practice, such as Making Safeguarding Personal, professional curiosity, information sharing and multi-agency working.
The training session will also look at escalation and the role of Trust Safeguarding Team in supporting you.
Dates available (10am to 12pm):
- Thursday 18 July 2024
- Thursday 7 November 2024
- Thursday 20 February 2024
This training will explore the dynamics of Domestic Abuse at the end of the session you will be able to:
- Give examples of Controlling and Coercive Behaviour in a Domestic Abuse setting
- Describe the role of Health Professionals in ‘Asking the Question’ and how to deal with a disclosure/respond appropriately
- Explore the links and impact on mental health and suicide
- Describe how this type of abuse can affect older people.
- Complete a multi-agency risk assessment processes, MERIT or DASH
- Describe what a Multi- Agency Risk Assessment Conference is and how to refer high risk victims.
Dates available (2pm to 4pm):
- Wednesday 5 June 2024
- Wednesday 18 September 2024
- Wednesday 4 December 2024
- Wednesday 5 February 2025
This training will help you identify the signs of neglect, it will explore the different categories, look at the impact that neglect can have on the child in the long term and highlight tools that can support you in practice.
Neglect is the ongoing failure to meet a child's basic needs and the most common form of child abuse. A child may not have access to food limited or no access to hygiene products, proper clothing, shelter, supervision, or health care. This can put children and young people in danger and can also have long term effects on their physical and mental wellbeing.
Dates available:
- Wednesday 19 June 2024, 1pm to 3pm
- Friday 18 October 2024, 10am to 12pm
- Tuesday 4 February 2025, 10am to 12pm
Created in partnership with Warrington Safeguarding Adult & Children’s Partnership, this course is a concise exploration of the relationship between Trauma and Safeguarding Vulnerability. The course aims to help staff better understand the circumstances of adverse childhood experience that create Trauma and the developmental impact of trauma in terms of how this shapes our thoughts, behaviours and relationships throughout life.
During the session we consider the impact of trauma as a push-pull factor in a range of safeguarding scenarios including child & adult exploitation, domestic abuse and neglect. The session also highlights how some professional and organisational approaches can compound a person’s experience of trauma and provides insights on effective models and tips for developing a Trauma Informed approach to recognising and responding to safeguarding children and adult concern.
Dates available:
- Tuesday 16 July 2024, 10am to 11.30am
- Thursday 14 November 2024, 10am to 11.30am
- Wednesday 19th March 2025, 1pm to 2.30pm
The safeguarding children mandatory Level 3 E-Learning course you are required to complete, is provided by NHS England and has a broad content to understand safeguarding children and young people. Therefore, you may feel this does not equip you to effectively safeguard children in the context of adult mental health from a think family perspective. In view of this Mersey Care have developed a modular 2-hour training course titled “Safeguarding Children in the context of Mental Health”.
This is an optional top up module to the mandatory 3 E-Learning course and is designed to support your practice specifically and to contextualise what you have learned in the E-Learning pack into your role.
Dates available (10am to 12pm):
- Friday 14 June 2024
- Tuesday 10 September 2024
- Thursday 5 December 2024
- Tuesday 11 March 2025