Find training in the North West for people who employ their own care and support and their personal assistants.
Great Minds Together
Great Minds Together provide a range of training for both people who employ their own care and support and their personal assistants.
- Contextualise safeguarding | Wednesday 30 July 2025, 14.00 - 16.00 | Online |
- Face-to-Face First Aid Training |Thursday 7 August 2025, 09.30 - 16.00 | Face-to-Face |
- Autism training for personal assistants | Tuesday 12 August 2025, 10.00 - 11.30 | Online |
- Face-to-Face First Aid Training | Thursday 4 September 2025, 09.30 - 16.00 | Face-to-Face |
- Sensory differences training for personal assistants | Friday 5 September 205,2 10.00 - 11.30 | Online |
- Low arousal and low demand approaches for personal assistants | Tuesday 9 September 2025, 10.00 - 11.30 | Online |
- Contextualise safeguarding | Wednesday 17 September 2025, 14.00 - 16.00 | Online |
- How to support a PA and your role as an employer | Friday 26 September 2025,13.00 - 14.30 | Online |
- Autism training for personal assistants |10 October 2025, 13.00 - 14.30 | Online |
- Low arousal and low demand approaches for personal assistants | Tuesday 14 October 2025, 10.00 - 11.30 | Online |
- Contextualise safeguarding | Wednesday 22 October 2025, 14.00 - 16.00 | Online |
- How to support a PA and your role as an employer | Friday 7 November 2025, 13.00 - 14.30 | Online |
- Face-to-face first aid training | Thursday 13 November 2025, 09.30 - 16.00 | Face-to-Face |
- Autism training for personal assistants | Tuesday 18 November 2025, 10.00 - 11.30 | Online |
- Sensory differences training for personal assistants | Friday 5 December 2025, 13.00 - 14.30 | Online |
- Sensory differences training for personal assistants | Friday 16 January 2026, 13.00 - 14.30 | Online |
- Low arousal and low demand approaches for personal assistants | Tuesday 27 January 2026, 10.00 - 11.30 | Online |
- How to Support a PA and your role as an employer | Tuesday 03 February 2026, 10.00 - 11.30 | Online |
- Autism Training for Personal Assistants | Tuesday 10 February 2026, 10.00 - 11.30 | Online |
- Contextualise Safeguarding | Wednesday 11 February 2026, 14.00 - 16.00 | Online |
- Face-to-Face First Aid Training | Thursday 12 February 2026 | 09.30 - 16.00 | Face-to-Face |
- Sensory Differences Training for Personal Assistants | Friday 6 March 2026, 13.00 - 14.30 | Online |
- Low Arousal & Low Demand Approaches for Personal Assistants | Tuesday 17 March 2026, 10.00 - 11.30 | Online |
Disability Positive
Disability Positive provide a range of training for both people who employ their own care and support and their personal assistants. To book email Learning@disabilitypositive.org or call 01606 331853 and ask to speak to the Learning Service.
Face-to-face:
- Manual handling and people handling training course
- 2 x safeguarding adults training courses
- First aid training course
- Good employer training courses
- Makaton training course
- Record keeping and documentation training courses
- Moving and handling training courses in the home
- First aid in the home
Online:
- ADHD awareness
- Artificial ventilation
- Awareness of alcohol and substance misuse
- Autistic spectrum disorder level 3
- Bed rails and risk management awareness
- Bereavement awareness
- Bullying and harassment awareness
- Care certificate
- Care planning
- Communication and record keeping
- Conflict resolution
- Constipation basic awareness
- DBS certificate
- Dementia care
- Diabetes awareness
- Diet and nutrition
- Dignity, privacy and respect
- Disability awareness
- Drugs and alcohol awareness
- Dysphagia care
- Employer / head PA training (inc) care planning, conflict resolution, fire safety, information governance and data security, interview skills, managing people awareness, RIDDOR awareness, risk assessment, appraisal, safer recruitment
- Emergency first aid awareness
- Epilepsy awareness
- Epilepsy level 3
- Equality, diversity and human rights
- Falls prevention
- FGM awareness
- Forced marriage awareness
- Fire safety CSTF aligned
- Food safety level 2
- Food safety level 3
- General data protection regulation (GDPR)
- Health & safety awareness
- Harmful sexual behaviours
- Infection prevention and control advanced in care
- Information governance and data security
- Introduction to sepsis
- Learning disability awareness
- Managing challenging behaviour positive behaviour support
- Managing people awareness
- Medication awareness
- Medication advanced including administration
- Mental capacity act and deprivation of liberties awareness
- Mental health awareness
- Modern day slavery awareness
- Moving and handling of people awareness
- Moving and handling of people level 2
- Multiple sclerosis (MS)
- Oral health
- Oxygen therapy
- Prader Willi syndrome awareness
- Palliative and end of life care
- Parkinson’s awareness
- Peg feeding
- Person centred care
- Pressure sore awareness
- Preventing radicalisation
- Professional boundaries
- Raising awareness of honour based abuse & forced marriage
- Riddor awareness
- Risk assessment awareness
- Safeguarding of adults level 1 CSTF aligned
- Safeguarding of adults level 2 CSTF aligned
- Self-harm awareness
- Sensory impairment awareness
- Staff appraisal skills
- Stoma care awareness
- Stress awareness
- Stroke and TIA awareness
- Substance misuse awareness
- The use of PPE
- Understanding anaphylaxis
- Understanding anxiety
- Understanding asthma
- Whistleblowing
- Any other impairment specific training as required
KDC
KDC provide a range of training for both people who employ their own care and support and their personal assistants. To book email andy.gilbert@kdc.org.uk.
- Buccal midazolam
- Autism awareness
- Dementia awareness
- Epilepsy awareness
- Motor neurone disease
- Moving and handling
- Safeguarding and protection of adults
- Nutrition and hygiene
- Medication practice
- Equality, diversity and inclusion
- Emergency first aid at home
- Safer handling of medication at home
Kaleidoscope Brokerage Ltd
Kaleidoscope Brokerage Ltd offer a Start Right Employer/Employee Course exclusively to their clients. Email admin@kaleidoscopebrokerage.org.uk to find out more.
Pathways
Pathways provide a range of training for both people who employ their own care and support and their personal assistants.
- Oliver McGowan Training- Tier 1 | Wednesday 10 September 2025, 10:30am-11:30 | Online |
- My right to be safe | Thursday 16 October 2025, 9:30-12:30 | Online |
- Oliver McGowan Training- Tier 1 | Wednesday 12 November, 10:30-11:30 | Online |
- My right to be heard | Wednesday 19 November 2025, 9:30-12:30 | Online |
- My right to good mental health | Wednesday 28 January 2026, 10:00-15:00 | Online |
- PASS-IT-ON | 3 sessions 4, 11, 18 February 2026, 10:30am-12:30 | Online |
- Oliver McGowan Training- Tier 2 | Thursday 26 February 2026, 9:00-16:30 | In person |
- Mental capacity act and supported decision making | Thursday 12 March 2026, 10:00-15:30 | Online |
Moving from OK to great- online peer support sessions:
- Monday 22 September, 12:30-15:00 |
- Monday 20 October, 12:30-15:00 |
- Monday 24 November, 12:30-15:00 |
- Monday 19 January, 12:30-15:00 |
- Monday 16 February, 12:30-15:00 |
- Monday 23 March, 12:30-15:00 |
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