Continuing Professional Development (CPD) for dental professionals

An Introduction to Effective Teamwork

This one module course delivers one CPD hour and comprehensively covers:

• what is a team?
• how teams develop
• reviewing outcomes
• analysing team performance
• understanding team roles
• the advantages and disadvantages of large and small teams

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First Aid Essentials

This three module course delivers three CPD hours and comprehensively covers:

• providing basic life support
• how to react in life threatening situations
• how to deal with someone who is choking, drowning, seizing, bleeding or having an allergic reaction
• what to do if somebody has a broken bone or experienced a burn
• how to handle day-to-day incidents such as nose bleeds, insect bites, stings, sprains and strains and sunburn

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Equality & Diversity

This two module course delivers two CPD hours and comprehensively covers:

• what equality and diversity mean and how they affect you
• barriers that can prevent equality from being realised such as prejudice, stereotyping, discrimination, victimisation and harassment
• key legislation and both employer and employees’ responsibilities in relation to it
• the Equality Act 2010 and the ‘protected characteristics’ that form the basis of the law

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Health & Safety

The course comprises five modules, five questionnaires and a proficiency test. Its content covers:

• an introduction to health and safety, the fundamental concepts and risk assessment
• common workplace health and safety hazards and how to control them
• improving performance
• the Plan, Do, Check, Act approach to managing health and safety
• emergency procedures, accident investigation and first aid
• essential ways to protect the environment.

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Food Hygiene and Safety

This four module course delivers five CPD hours and comprehensively covers:

• how bacteria can cause food-borne illness
• recognising high risk foods and food allergies
• contamination and food spoilages and how to control it
• effective hygiene
• the importance of storage
• HACCP and the law

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The Prevent Duty

This one module course delivers one CPD hour and comprehensively covers:

• what Prevent is
• what extremism and radicalisation are
• who may be vulnerable
• how people may be drawn into terrorism
• how messages are spread
• reporting concerns.

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Child Neglect

Course content

Module 1 Understanding neglect

• Introduction to the basic forms of neglect and examples of circumstances parents whose children are neglected may be experiencing.
• The prevalence of neglect in comparison to other types of maltreatment in the UK.
• The Assessment Framework to identify a child’s essential developmental needs, and what dimensions these cover.
• Children’s key developmental milestones.
• Identifying neglect in older children.
• Scenarios to illustrate that what you see is not always the truth.
• The impacts of what harm neglect can do; how it can affect and damage children in key developmental areas such as social, physical and emotional development.

Module 2 Why are children and young people neglected?

• The key components of effective parenting using the Assessment Framework model.
• Examples of factors that can make parenting neglectful, either intentionally or by omission.
• Examining practices which harm children and young people with disabilities.
• Information regarding children and young people who are especially vulnerable; such as young carers, and looked-after children and young people.
• Other risk factors; based on research focusing on mothers and fathers.
• Resilience and protective factors that can mitigate against risks that children and young people face.
• Scenario to consider how a child could be effected in a particular situation.

Module 3 Recognising and reporting child neglect

• The signs and indicators that should alert you to the possibility a child or young person is being neglected at different age-specific developmental milestones. Understanding what possible signs and indicators to look for in infants and toddlers, young children of school age, and adolescences.
• Parental neglect during adolescence and its possible consequences.
• Examining barriers to reporting and recognising neglect.
• Offering support; identifying when it is appropriate to talk to parents and how to start or encourage young people to have honest conversations.

Best practises for reporting neglect; information regarding organisations that can be contacted and universal principles that should be recorded within your own organisation.

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Safeguarding Adults

This course provides a thorough understanding on safeguarding adults to anyone working with adults at risk.

• Learn what abuse is
• Identify situations in which adults are at risk
• Recognise the signs of abuse
• Understand the importance of taking action
• Identify good practice guidelines

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Raising Awareness of Trafficking and Modern Slavery

The purpose of this course is to help you understand:

• What modern slavery and trafficking are
• Different types of trafficking
• Who trafficking affects
• The Modern Slavery Act 2015
• Internal trafficking and county lines
• How to spot the signs of trafficking
• How to report concerns about a trafficked child or adult

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Domestic Abuse: Children and Young People

The purpose of this course is to help you understand:

• What domestic abuse is and what forms it can take
• What controlling and coercive behaviour is
• The prevalence of domestic abuse
• They key risk factors to be aware of
• Some of the trigger events that can lead to violence
• The impact domestic violence can have
• What protective factors there are
• What to do when you suspect a child or young person is witnessing and/or experiencing domestic abuse
• What support, help and advice is available

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