home Specialities Huntington's Disease Staff Staff Training Townsend Social Workers Print this page Email this page to a friend Terms & Conditions Search by keyword		Staff   Staff Training Townsend clinical staff are involved in the following training: Comprehensive Induction Divisional objectives Introduction to audit Introduction to advocacy Introduction to clinical supervision Importance of healthy eating How to recognise signs of abuse and what to do about it Dysphagia training Introduction to the chapliancy service Risk assessment, including assessing patients, assessing the environment, escorting patients, use of two way radio’s and the role of the safety nurse Introduction to the patient groups, including caring for patients with a forensic history, caring for patients with dementia and caring for patients with huntington’s disease Introduction to the Care Programme Approach (CPA) process Overview of the use of the Mental Health Act within the Townsend service How, where and why you record patients behaviour, including writing in the clinical records, incident and accident reporting and MOAS Dementia Training Programme Types of dementia Coping with challenging behaviour Daily care Communication & dementia Caring for carers Dietary needs in dementia Huntington’s Disease Training Programme The history and genetics Physical symptoms Emotional symptoms Cognitive symptoms Behavioural symptoms Management and treatment processes In Service Training Programme An explanation of the divisional objectives Care of the dying patient Mental Health Act training MRSA – the facts PEG management Suicide prevention What is audit? Caring for the diabetic patient Caring for the epileptic patient Wound care Plus Group skills workshop Specialist manual handling RAID training Dementia care mapping Care Programme Approach care co-ordinator training Food hygiene certificate Venepuncture ECG All clinical staff are encouraged to attend regular clinical supervision, this includes registered and non registered.