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.
Community / Social Inclusion information
Social Inclusion Training Pack
The Social Inclusion Training Pack is a suite of tools and approaches that staff teams and organisations can use to help achieve better outcomes for people. Please see our NDTi Publications page for more details of the pack and for more copies of the worksheet.
Social Inclusion Training Pack Training Days
Training days are being held, facilitated by Peter Bates and Jo Seddon. Click on the flyer for more information.
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. These training events 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.
Community Mapping
This has been a popular and well-received training day, which we have delivered to a wide range of organisations and groups as part of our NDTi Community Inclusion Training Programme. Click here for more information
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.
Leadership Development 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.
Modern Commissioner Development Programme flyer
Employment, Housing
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.
Employment Investment
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. To read more about our Mental Health programme, click here.
The Learning Disability Next Generation
Leadership Faculty
The NDTi are delivering a major Leadership development programme for managers working in the learning disability field. Please contact us if you are interested in the next available course.
For more information about the current course click on the flyer.
Training for independent support brokers
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.
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 steve.dowson@ndti.org.uk or the NDTi head office.
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.
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.
CAIRO information