Positive Approaches to Challenging Behaviour
Our Positive Approaches to Challenging Behaviour (PACB) training supports professionals working with people who display behaviours of concern that can present a risk of harm to themselves or others.
Our training is suitable for all health and social care settings, from all sizes of independent providers through to local authority provision and NHS Trusts. We ask you to complete a Training Needs Analysis so we can determine your requirements.
Our course includes the following modules (depending on the training needs analysis and course duration):
- Values and ethics
- Understanding and making sense of challenging behaviour
- De-escalation and defusion
- Legislation & guidance
- Restraint Related Risks
- Recording and reporting
- Reducing restrictive practices
- Post incident review
- A range of breakaway and holding techniques (minimum 2 day course)
No prior learning is required.
As training with a restrictive intervention component needs to be RRN-Certified, delegates must meet or be working towards a number of criteria. We will provide you with information about this and guide you through the process to demonstrate compliance with the criteria.
Course Overview
Who’s it for?
Course Level
Foundation, Intermediate & Advanced (subject to course design)Duration
1-5 DaysCertification
RRN certified training with approved curricula.Validation Period
An annual refresher is required to maintain certification.Delivery Type
This course can be delivered as a Train the Trainer or Direct Delivery mode
Direct Delivery Courses
One of our trainers will come to a venue of your choice and deliver a ‘closed course’ designed to meet the needs of your staff team. We will ask you to complete a Training Needs Analysis so we can fully assess your requirements and determine the duration and content of the course required. Where a course includes restrictive techniques, a minimum of 12 hours theory is required and trainer ratios will be 1:12 (as specified by the RRN Training Standards). Courses will be 2, 3 or 4 days depending on your specific needs.
Some organisations prefer to start with this approach when they first move to the PRICE Training model, while they embed our philosophy and ethos within their organisation; once established, they often then choose to move to the Train the Trainer model.
When you contact us, we will discuss the options with you. We will help you to decide which is the best model for you based on your organisation’s training needs – and which model is the most cost-effective for you.
There is an annual refresher training requirement for this course to maintain certification.
Training we deliver to you will be RRN-certified, as expected by CQC.
Train the Trainer Courses
Our Train-the-Trainer program equips you to deliver our Positive Behaviour Support training ‘in-house’ to your staff, tailored to your organisation’s needs. This starts with an initial five-day programme, with the opportunity to further build on these skills with our 2 day TTT Plus and 2 day Advanced Train the Trainer.
Upon successful completion, trainers are free to cascade the training to meet the needs of your staff team, giving you the ultimate flexibility to deliver training as and when required. In-house training needs to be certified by us in order to be valid; your trainers will need to request these from us once they have delivered a course.
Your trainers will have access to our Members Area, where they will find all the resources needed to deliver the training, including associated forms and documentation. There is no additional charge for this facility. The Members Area is where your trainers will request certificates for the training they have delivered (there is a flat rate ‘per course’ charge for certificates).
We offer ‘open’ Train the Trainer courses at our training facility in Worcester, or, if you have a group of 6 or more staff to train as trainers, we can offer a ‘closed’ course at a venue of your choice.
There is an annual refresher requirement for this course to maintain certification.
Under the RRN Training Standards, training you deliver ‘in-house’ which includes a restrictive intervention component must be RRN-certified and as an organisation you need to demonstrate your compliance with the standards. We work in partnership with our customers to guide them through this process.
