Oxford Co-operative Training Scheme

Introduction

This course provides a development programme for both new workers and existing staff particularly for those working in the Supported Housing and Homelessness sector including Floating Support.

It aims to enable understanding and skills development that are needed to work with the complex needs and situations presented by clients to arrive at better results for both workers and clients.

The programme is made up of 8 half day sessions run over 7months.

This is a new way of delivering training for OCTS and aims to provide a setting in which participants can significantly benefit from the advantages of

• an ongoing group
• seminars progressively covering the core processes of engaging service users from assessment  to closure
• having time for specific input on core topics
• small group discussion afterwards to apply the topic to real life work situations

In between seminars we will use Action Learning models to continue to learn and to set personal learning goals.  Participants will have the opportunity to follow these up later in the group.

Participants and their line managers need to make a commitment for the participant to attend all 8 sessions.

Course content

• The content of the seminars is embedded in an understanding of the service user, their back ground, presenting issues and their history of change and motivation.
• The seminars will follow the key stages of service user engagement through assessment, support planning, risk assessment and closure and develop participants’ skills and awareness of how to work with difficulty.
• For each topic as outlined in the Programme Outline, (see below) the essential basic points will be covered and the seminar will also include the presentation of a model to foster deeper understanding and expertise.  Useful applicable frameworks will be offered which will make sense of the barriers which participants face in working with clients.
• Following the teaching input the second half of the seminar will provide an Action Learning group, a smaller facilitated group for the application of the learning and exploring questions from the participants’ work.
• As well as boundaries, working with difficulty and motivation, the importance of reliability, positive modelling and relationship will also be covered.
• Participants will also be supported in developing their skills for debriefing and looking after themselves in the difficult work that they may be engaged in.
• Models will be used from Motivational Interviewing, Relapse Prevention, Adult Learning, the Recovery Model and Psychological models.
• Both trainers are very experienced in supporting staff  delivering front line work with vulnerable adults and are passionate about supporting staff develop their confidence, skills set and expertise.

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Seminars

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