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What is Mental Health First Aid? Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) is an internationally recognised training course which teaches people how to spot the signs and symptoms of mental ill health and provide help on a first aid basis. MHFA England training won’t teach you to be a therapist, but just like physical first aid, it will teach you to listen, reassure and respond, even in a crisis. Adult MHFA England courses are for everyone aged 16 upwards. Every MHFA England course is delivered by a quality assured Instructor Member who has attended our Instructor Training programme accredited by the Royal Society for Public Health, and is trained to keep people safe and supported while they learn.

Please note there are charges for this course and the following charges will apply:

£100 for all bookings.

For PCC please provide a cost code at the time of booking (except Adult's and Children's Social Care)

Non PCC will be invoiced

This is a one day course including theory and practice

Who Should Attend?

New staff whose role directly or indirectly involves the handling of people should attend this course. 

To encourage a positive and realistic approach to a financially secure retirement and help delegates make informed choices
about retirement.

This course will provide a three year qualification in Emergency First Aid at Work (EFAW) for staff who are either coming to the end of their existing EFAW qualification or for staff who do not have a EFAW qualification and require it for their job role.

This workshop is free to all teachers, RE leaders and senior leaders with a primary/special needs RE focus in the Portsmouth area!

It takes place in the nave at the Portsmouth Anglican Cathedral and using a range of speakers, the workshop will help delegates know how to teach the Christian traditions using the golden threads of belonging, community, special and love as a focus. Delegates will consider the range of Christian beliefs and practices, but also look at different expressions of these across the Christian traditions. The workshop will develop the building blocks of knowledge for teachers to teach Christianity with confidence, knowledge and enthusiasm across both KS1 and 2.

This course requires delegates to be enrolled on the ICDL programme before booking on this course and charges may apply. Please email ICDL.ICDL@Portsmouthcc.gov.uk for more information.

ICDL Extra is a recognised qualification at Level 2 and is deemed to be equivalent with GCSE grades A* to C.

ICDL Extra builds on the users basic knowledge of Microsoft Office and improves their understanding of Word, Excel and PowerPoint

This course will provide a three year qualification in Emergency First Aid at Work (EFAW) for staff who are either coming to the end of their existing EFAW qualification or for staff who do not have a EFAW qualification and require it for their job role.

This course will provide a three year qualification in Emergency First Aid at Work (EFAW) for staff who are either coming to the end of their existing EFAW qualification or for staff who do not have a EFAW qualification and require it for their job role.

The First Aid at Work Requalification (FAWR) is suitable only for those delgates who have an in date First Aid at Work qualification and it is approaching expiry.

Please only book on this course if your certificate is due to expire with 3-4 months of the date of this course.

If your certificate has expired and it is less than one month since your expiry date please contact the course administrator to discuss your options.

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There seems to be a misconception around 'helping people' and a tendency to move towards specific training that is overly complicated, sometimes daunting and often ends up sitting on the 'shelf' - The Healthy Conversation Skills training aims to de-mystify the art of 'giving help' and build confidence in everyone.

This 3 hour, fully interactive virtual training is designed to encourage and support the philosophy behind Making Every Contact Count (MECC) with added peer support, networking opportunities and a desire to implement what they learn in their daily lives

We all have a shared responsibility to be healthy in the conversations we have with our residents/customers and each other. We need to invest time in the development of our skills now while there is a collective consideration of health and inequality made so evident in the current pandemic.

If people are empowered to be proactive and opportunistic in their approach to helping others with more complex issues like mental health and sexual health: they will need to be confident in having a basic conversation; using reflection, open discovery questions and a person centred, asset based approach.