Group Facilitation Training with Sam Simpson & Lorraine Munro. This course supports health and social care professionals to explore, identify and develop key skills for facilitating groups effectively. It will be an interdisciplinary event facilitated by Speech and Language Therapists, and includes Social Care Workers and Occupational Therapists. There will be an opportunity to attend on either of following two dates: 13th October and the 10th November. This course is supported by funding from the National HSCP Office

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This is an interdisciplinary event between Social Care Ireland (SCI), The Irish Association of Social Workers (IASW), the Irish Association of Speech and Language Therapists (IASLT), The Irish Nutrition and Dietetic Institute (INDI), the Association of Occupational Therapists of Ireland (AOTI), and the Society of Chiropodists and podiatrists of Ireland (SCPI).The course has been funded by the HSCP Office, HSE. As such, places are available to social care workers in the publicly funded healthcare service only.

This event is hosted by Social Care Ireland.  It is an interdisciplinary event in collaboration with the Association of Occupational Therapists in Ireland (AOTI) and the Irish Association of Speech and Language Therapists (ISLT). It is funded by the National Health and Social Care Professionals Office (HSCP Office). Working with attachment and trauma in a relational way has many inherent challenges – nowhere is this more prevalent and complex than in the field of health and social care. Carol Duffy has 20 years’ experience working in health and social care and 15 of those have been practicing as a child and adolescent psychotherapist specialising in play therapy.

Social Care Ireland are delighted to be back collaborating with the National Institute of Intellectual Disability Services (NIIDS) who are facilitating this 7 day programme.  This will provide frontline staff with a framework for understanding and addressing the problems that arise when an individual has both intellectual disabilities, mental health difficulties and possibly a personality disorder. It provides staff with a range of creative strategies which they can use as effective approaches.

Social Care Ireland Annual Conference 2024 Venue: Radisson Blu Hotel, Little Island, Cork 10th & 11th April 2024 Please book your accommodation directly with the hotel Early bird tickets are now on sale!   The title of this years conference is; Beyond Registration: the challenges of equality, diversity and inclusion for social care workers and the communities they serve. The long-awaited registration for social care workers opens in November 2023. This important juncture provides the opportunity to examine the broader context within which the profession operates, beyond registration. This year’s theme seeks to address the very real challenges of growing inequality […]