Essential Practice Skills for Social Carers

ESSENTIAL PRACTICE SKILLS FOR SOCIAL CARERS

Course Content & Certificate
Everything you wanted to know but may find difficult to ask!

Content: anatomy and physiology and their relationship to personal care -
disease processes and their management - responding to life threatening
conditions - supporting people with chronic conditions - use of medical
terminology when working with other health care professionals - approaches to support carer practice in communication, prevention of abuse, conflict situations, and stress management.
Successful completion of the course gives a Training for Care Certificate of
Attendance.

Tutors and Teaching
Alison Cole MSc, BN, RGN. Alison is a part-time member of TfC's Care
Department and also a member of the Edinburgh L'Arche Community. She has particular interests in training and social care, and her previous experience includes a visiting lectureship at Queen Margaret University College and delivering health education related programmes on three continents!
Teaching is participative, with plenty of opportunities to discuss course related issues arising from your work.