Course Programme

 



Healthy Communities Programme – Promoting Healthy Lifestyles (Part 1)

    Target Audience                                                    All Frontline Staff


    Course objectives
   This introductory module focuses
   on providing a brief overview of the
   different areas of health and
   wellbeing, health inequalities and
   how to promote healthy living
   activities in the community

 Course content

• Factors which affect health and wellbeing – diet, exercise,
smoking, drugs and alcohol misuse
• Link between mental health and wellbeing and physical health
• Barriers for engaging in healthy lifestyle activities
• Recognising risk and protective factors and the impact on the
individual and the community
• Policies for reducing health inequalities-locally and nationally
• Strategies for engaging people in healthy lifestyle activities
- Models of behaviour change and realistic goal setting
- Raising the topic/issue and effective conversations
- Improving access to healthcare resources
- Promoting interventions that support healthy lifestyles
• Encourage appropriate professional support and
self- help strategies
• Signposting/referring individuals to appropriate services
• Overview of local and national organisations
• Further resources and keeping your knowledge up to date                                                                                                                                      

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Healthy Communities Programme – Promoting Healthy Lifestyles (Part 2)

    Target Audience
    All Frontline Staff


    Course objectives
    This further module focuses on
    providing a brief overview of the
    different areas of health and
    wellbeing, health inequalities and
    how to promote healthy living
    activities in the community.
    This is Part 2 of the module-
    Promoting Healthy Lifestyles and
    builds on the learning from
    Part 1.

Course content
• Continuing knowledge of the factors which may affect health and
wellbeing including health inequalities. Factors to include diet,
exercise, smoking, drug and alcohol misuse, sexual health, mental
health and emotional wellbeing.
• Policies for reducing health inequalities – locally and nationally
• Barriers to engaging in healthy lifestyle activities (e.g. access,
resources, age, education)
• Strategies for engaging people in healthy lifestyle activities –
including raising the topic/issue, improving access to healthcare
resources, interventions that support healthy lifestyles (increase in
physical activity, nutrition, mental wellbeing, use of open spaces).
This includes actively identifying assets within the community that
can help improve lifestyles e.g. sources of healthy foods, use of
green spaces and cycle paths for physical activity
• Identify risk factors of loneliness and social isolation, the
consequences and impact on mental and physical wellbeing and
supporting individuals to engage in services that reduce loneliness
and isolation
• Impact of drug and alcohol misuse on mental and physical health
• Brief overview of consequences of alcohol/drug use, dependence,
relapse and withdrawal
• Sexual health awareness – risk taking behaviour, facts about STIs,
support services available in the borough
• Models of behaviour change, maintaining behavioural change and
realistic goal setting in order to make small lifestyle changes
• Role of effective communication in promoting healthy
lifestyles/behaviour changes and strategies for implementing it (in
particular providing brief opportunistic advice)
• Encourage appropriate professional support and
self- help strategies
• Signposting/referring individuals to appropriate services
• Overview of local and national organisations
• Further resources and keeping your knowledge up to date


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Healthy Communities Programme-Mental and emotional wellbeing (Part1)

       Target Audience                                                               All Frontline Staff


       Course objectives
    This module provides a brief overview
    of the different aspects that support
    good mental wellbeing, how to
    support individuals to engage in
    health promoting activities and
    accessing further support.

 Course content

• Factors which affect health and wellbeing – diet, exercise,
smoking, drugs and alcohol misuse
• Link between mental health and wellbeing and physical health
• Barriers for engaging in healthy lifestyle activities
• Recognising risk and protective factors and the impact on the
individual and the community
• Policies for reducing health inequalities-locally and nationally
• Strategies for engaging people in healthy lifestyle activities
- Models of behaviour change and realistic goal setting
- Raising the topic/issue and effective conversations
- Improving access to healthcare resources
- Promoting interventions that support healthy lifestyles
• Encourage appropriate professional support and
self- help strategies
• Signposting/referring individuals to appropriate services
• Overview of local and national organisations
• Further resources and keeping your knowledge up to date                                                                                                                                      

 

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Healthy Communities Programme-Mental and emotional wellbeing (Part2)

    Target Audience
    All Frontline Staff


    Course objectives
    This module provides a more in
    depth overview of the different
    aspects that support good mental
    wellbeing, how to support
    individuals to engage in health
    promoting activities and accessing
    further support.
    This is Part 2 of the module- Mental
    and emotional wellbeing and build
    on the learning
    from Part 1.

 

Course content

• What is mental health
• The link between mental health and wellbeing and physical health
• Identify risk factors of loneliness and social isolation, the
consequences and impact on mental wellbeing and supporting
individuals to engage in services that reduce loneliness and isolation
• Bereavement – understand its impact, how to raise the issue and
strategies to use to support those affected
• Dementia – understand its impact and some of the strategies
that can be used to support someone with dementia to
access further help
• Signs and symptoms of some anxiety disorders
• Hoarding – risk factors, understand its impact (mental and physical
wellbeing, environment), raising the issue and strategies to support
affected individuals to seek further help
• Overview on methods of promoting mental wellbeing (including
five ways to mental wellbeing)
• Stress management – skills to recognise when your stress levels or
that of your clients are increasing and having a negative effect.
Strategies on reducing stress levels
• Encourage appropriate professional support and
self- help strategies
• Signposting/referring individuals to appropriate services
• Overview of local and national organisations
• Further resources and keeping your knowledge up to date

 

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Healthy Communities Programme-Promoting healthy nutrition

       Target Audience 
       All Frontline Staff


       Course objectives
     This module gives an introduction to             
     the importance of maintaining a
     healthy diet, how to make simple
     dietary changes and accessing
     services locally for further support.

 

 

 Course content

• The importance of maintaining a healthy weight, the causes and
consequences of obesity.
• The role of diet, nutrition and physical activity in achieving and
maintaining a healthy weight
• Strategies for engaging and encouraging people to make
healthy dietary choices
-Raising the topic/issue and effective conversations
- How to recommend clear and safe healthy eating messages
-Models of behaviour change and realistic goal setting
-Improving access to health promotion activities
-Promoting interventions that support healthy lifestyles
• Encourage appropriate professional support and
self- help strategies
• Signposting/referring individuals to appropriate services
• Overview of local and national organisations
• Further resources and keeping your knowledge up to date

                                                                                                                                    

 

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Healthy Communities Programme –Drug and alcohol misuse

    Target Audience
    All Frontline Staff


    Course objectives
   This module provides a short
   introduction to substance
   misuse-alcohol and drugs, its impact
   on health and how individuals
   affected can be supported to access
   early help.

 

 

Course content

• Overview of the issues surrounding alcohol and drug misuse
• Brief overview of the consequences of alcohol/drug use and
dependence, relapse and withdrawal
• The impact of alcohol and drug misuse on individuals mental and
physical health and others around them
• The risks of alcohol and drug misuse in the home and in the
community
• Gain confidence in dealing with alcohol or drug related
issues/incidents including how to raise the issue
• Encourage appropriate professional support and
self- help strategies
• Signposting/referring individuals to appropriate services
• Overview of local and national organisations
• Further resources and keeping your knowledge up to date

 

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Healthy Communities Programme –Fire, home and personal safety (Part 1)

    Target Audience
    All Frontline Staff – especially thoseworking with older residents

 


    Course objectives
    This module is primarily aimed at
    staff working with older residents;
    however it is applicable to other staff
    working in frontline roles.
    It provides an overview to safety in
    the home and the risks and types of
    accidents which could occur as
    clients get older-fire, burns,
    poisoning, trips and falls

 

 

Course content

• Identify risk factors associated with loneliness and social isolation
• Falls prevention and the role of physical activity in preventing
and reducing falls
• Brief overview of hoarding-risk factors including falls, trips and fires
in the home and understand its impact in terms of mental, physical,
financial and environmental wellbeing
• The impact of alcohol and prescription medication on accidents and
fires in the home and understand its impact in terms of mental,
physical, financial and environmental wellbeing
• Methods of accident reduction/prevention in the home
• Strategies for engaging and encouraging people to implement
methods of accident reduction/prevention in the home
- Raising the topic/issue and effective conversations
- How to recommend clear accident reduction/prevention methods
• Encourage appropriate professional support and self- help
strategies
• Signposting/referring individuals to appropriate services
• Overview of local and national organisations
• Further resources and keeping your knowledge up to date

 

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Healthy Communities Programme –Fire, home and personal safety (Part 2) not finished

    Target Audience
    All Frontline Staff


    Course objectives
    This module provides a more in
    depth overview of the different
    aspects that support good mental
    wellbeing, how to support
    individuals to engage in health
    promoting activities and accessing
    further support.
    This is Part 2 of the module- Mental
    and emotional wellbeing and build
    on the learning
    from Part 1.

 

Course content

• What is mental health
• The link between mental health and wellbeing and physical health
• Identify risk factors of loneliness and social isolation, the
consequences and impact on mental wellbeing and supporting
individuals to engage in services that reduce loneliness and isolation
• Bereavement – understand its impact, how to raise the issue and
strategies to use to support those affected
• Dementia – understand its impact and some of the strategies
that can be used to support someone with dementia to
access further help
• Signs and symptoms of some anxiety disorders
• Hoarding – risk factors, understand its impact (mental and physical
wellbeing, environment), raising the issue and strategies to support
affected individuals to seek further help
• Overview on methods of promoting mental wellbeing (including
five ways to mental wellbeing)
• Stress management – skills to recognise when your stress levels or
that of your clients are increasing and having a negative effect.
Strategies on reducing stress levels
• Encourage appropriate professional support and
self- help strategies
• Signposting/referring individuals to appropriate services
• Overview of local and national organisations
• Further resources and keeping your knowledge up to date

 
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