Association for Real Change NI

The aim of this course is to raise awareness of staff who support, or may support people with a learning disability who experience mental health issues. The course will raise an awareness of mental illness, its effects on people with a learning disability and provides a basic introduction to assessment and interventions.

Aimed at middle and senior managers to explore the key issues from a human rights perspective and will highlight some of the key concepts, practice standards and present research relating to use of restrictive practices.

This is a full-day course, specifically aimed at newly appointed or relatively inexperienced staff, working in the learning disability sector. It aims to give participants a basic understanding of learning disability and how it impacts on people’s lives. For further courses details and learning outcomes please download flier.

Person centred planning is a way of expressing a set of inclusive values through a unique range of tools and techniques. This one-day course enables participants to identify and begin to address the changes that are needed to ensure that person-centred practices are embedded in day to day practice and that people using services have choice and control over how they are supported.

This course will cover a range of aspects of dementia and also how it relates to adults with a learning disability.

Additional Courses added for 2020 | Thursday 6th & Friday 7th February 2020

This course will be delivered in line with RQIA standards, specifically the standard relating to the management of medicines which states that ‘The management of medicines is in accordance with legislative requirements, professional standards and DHSSPS guidance’.

As many of you will be aware, there has been an emerging issue with regards to deprivations of liberty for some time.  The requirements for depriving someone of their liberty have been clearly set out by the UK Supreme Court in recent years, and the result is that the only lawful means of Depriving someone of their liberty at present in Northern Ireland is by use of the Mental Health (NI) Order 1986 for mental health patients in hospital or by a declaratory order obtained from the High Court for any other patients or patients not in hospital.

Knowledge of the law on consent is an essential tool for every practitioner working in in any health or social care setting. Respect for a client’s rights to make their own decision is an essential aspect of practice. Clients have the right to make their own decisions, even if they are unwise decisions, if they have sufficient decision making capacity to do so. Where a client does not have decision making capacity for a specific decision, the practitioner should then assess the alternatives provided by current NI Legislation and Common Law, and in consultation with named others, to proceed in the client’s best interests.