Training

The NDTi’s training and development programme aims to support staff and managers learn about leading edge practice, policy and delivery strategies in ways that will have a real impact upon performance. Inter-active in nature and challenging in thought, our training is rooted in the objective of people living more inclusive lives. Having valued, skilled and well-motivated staff and managers is a key building block in achieving better outcomes for everyone.

Here’s what recent participants have said about our training:

"It has made me think about how our service must change!!"

"Effective presentations with good group interaction"

"A good presentation, presenter appeared very knowledgeable and pitched the day appropriately for the group"

"Gained useful information, knowledge and some cause for thought. Positive, interest holding, varied"

"Stimulated debate and encouraged free thinking"

 

The following are some of the main NDTi training and development programmes. Unless stated otherwise, courses are commissioned from us by organisations for their staff and managers i.e. we are generally unable to accept bookings from individuals. Also, unless stated otherwise, training programme are applicable across all ‘client groups’:

Community/Social Inclusion Training: Social Inclusion Training can be tailored to Mental Health, Learning Disabilities and Older People's services. We provide specifically designed modules and training events. For more information please see the attached flyer.

The Social Inclusion Training Pack is a suite of tools and approcahes that staff teams and organisations can use to help achieve better outcomes for people. Read more. If you already have a training pack and need more copies of the worksheet click here for a master copy.

Person Centred Approaches: A range of training and learning programmes to support managers and staff to understand person centred approaches including:

• Learning sets for key leaders in person centred approaches on an inter-agency basis
• Awareness raising training for provider organisation staff
• Training in a range of person centred tools and techniques

Brokerage: A five module training and development course that will result in around 15 people understanding the nature of independent support brokerage and being ready and skilled to offer brokerage support to people in receipt of direct payments or individual budgets.

Leadership Development:  A range of leadership development programmes encompassing long-term development courses, learning sets, mentoring and practical skill training.

The NDTi are pleased to announce a major Leadership development programme for managers wording in the learning disability field. Aimed at people currently with some managerial responsibility who have the potential to become senior leaders over the next few years, the Next Generation Leadership Programme is accepting applications up to the end of October. For more details see the attached flyer.

The Modern Commissioner Development Programme: A six module development programme for commissioners who want to understand more about modern commissioning and strengthen their knowledge and performance. 

Employment, Housing and PSA 16:  A two-day workshop (with a month between the two days) that can focus on either housing or employment, from either a mental health or learning disability perspective (or both). It will introduce ideas and techniques for reviewing investment and delivery strategies and, by supporting you to quantify current outcomes, help to deliver changed approaches that will improve performance as measured by the PSA indicators.

People Who Use Services and Staff Selection. A one day introductory workshop to help organisations review how to ensure people who use services are properly involved in staff recruitment.

 

Social Inclusion Training Pack Training Day

A training day will be held on Thursday 25^th February 2010 in Nottingham, facilitated by Peter Bates and Jo Seddon. The training day will cost £80 + VAT.
Since NDTi published the Social Inclusion Training Pack in summer 2009, over 500 copies have been purchased by practitioners aspiring to develop their skills in socially inclusive practice. This training event will:

• Set out a clear aspiration for inclusion work
  
• Provide an opportunity to share good practice in supporting both people and communities so that everyone can achieve the life they want in thecommunity of their choice
  
• Demonstrate a range of ways that the Social Inclusion Training Pack can assist with building and evaluating the impact of inclusion plans.

It will provide key information alongside really practical workshop exercises to help participants focus on the specific things that need to be done to support people in the community beyond services.

If you have already purchased your copy of the Social Inclusion Training Pack, then come along to this day and learn more about the values, practices and insights that help people to move from observing to attending and real belonging.

 

Following the success of bookings for the February SITP Training Day, we have arranged another training day on 14th April, to be held in Newcastle upon Tyne.

 

Download the flyer here

Download an application form for the training day here

 

 

 

The Learning Disability Next Generation Leadership Faculty

 

The NDTi are pleased to announce a major Leadership development programme for managers working in the learning disability field. Aimed at people currently with some managerial responsibility who have the potential to become senior leaders over the next few years.

We have a few places still available for this course.

For more information click here

 

 

 

 

 

Training for independent support brokers

The NDTi offers a wide range of training on support planning and brokerage, to suit the needs of different groups.  The flagship training amongst these courses is the NDTi’s five-day training designed specifically for people who intend to offer assistance with support brokerage as a paid service.

This training course for support brokers has a combination of features and strengths not available from any other brokerage training in the UK. 

 

 

For example, the training is –

• underpinned by the learning from an international community of people who have developed and debated individualised funding and brokerage over the last thirty years – a community in which the trainers are directly involved.
  

• informed by the NDTi’s central role over the last six years in clarifying the place of the support broker within personalised services, including recent work for Skills for Care to define the training needs of brokers.
  

• structured to provide participants with a sound, practical understanding of the stages in the process of delivering brokerage assistance, and the skills  required
  

• the result of repeated testing and refinement as it has been delivered to around a dozen councils over the last six years.
  

• delivered by two trainers, each of them highly experienced and expert in their own fields.

The training course is ideal as part of a strategy to develop a local resource of independent brokers, and so far has been delivered mainly under commission by local councils.  

If you’d like to discuss how the training can benefit personalised social care in your area, please contact Steve Dowson (Associate NDTi consultant) at sdowson@ndt.org.uk or the NDTi office.

 

Pay-per-place training for independent support brokers

The single disadvantage of these commissioned courses is that they exclude people from other areas.  So, in response to sustained demand, we are now offering the same independent broker training on a pay-per-place basis for individuals and small organisations.   

The first course will take place over May 2010, at a venue designed to suit people from London and the South West.

If you are interested in the pay-per-place training course, please download the flyer and the furtherinformation.  

There is also an application form you can download and return by email or post.

 

Analysing and repairing risk-averse or reckless team cultures in health and social care settings

Teams vary in their response to risk, even when they are following the same policies and supporting similar people.

This project will help teams to assess their risk climate, understand ways to make improvements and track progress over time.

The NDTi has considered relevant literature and completed some initial pilot work to create CAIRO – the Climate Assessment Inventory for Risk and Opportunity. We are now inviting teams to join us in the next development stage of CAIRO. read more

 

For more details about these and enquiries about other possible areas of training, either click on the link or call the NDTi HQ in Bath.