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Motivational Interviewing Level 1

Online

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 Association of Occupational Therapists of Ireland (AOTI), the Academy of Clinical Science and Laboratory Medicine (ACSLM) and the Irish Nutrition & Dietetic Institute (INDI). 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.

€10.00

Continuing Professional Development & CORU Registration Open Forum

Online

Latest from CORU following a meeting with the board of directors within Social Care Ireland.
You’ve got questions, we’ve got answers. Join Charlotte the CPD Coordinator for this Zoom session. Get your questions answered – Participants will have the opportunity to ask questions. Charlotte is also interested to hear about the information and supports needed for your professional development. CPD – you’re doing it, but you’re possibly not realizing it! Let us show you how to use this to your advantage.

Free

Competency Framework – National Institute of Intellectual Disability Studies

National Institute of Intellectual Disability Studies Johnstown Business Centre, Johnstown, Co. Kildare, Ireland

This online programme has been endorsed by Social Care Ireland and is deemed to be of a high quality and relevant to social care practice. The NIIDS Competency Framework is a model that sets out a blueprint for excellence in performance within the disability sector. When we do not have a definition of what excellence looks like, the judgement of best practices may be more subjective. Our competency framework exists to identify the personal attributes, competencies and skills required by all grades of staff to complete their role to the highest standard. The NDA made a request of the Department […]

Introduction to Autism and Neurodiversity in Mental Health Settings

Online

This is an interdisciplinary event and the bookings will be managed by the office in the Association of Occupational Therapists of Ireland. This half-day workshop will help participants to understand the unique occupational needs of the autistic community. This training will be invaluable to upskill healthcare professionals so that they are equipped to deal effectively with this client cohort.

Supporting Asylum Seeking and Refugee Young People -Two day workshop

Online

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), and the Association of Occupational Therapists of Ireland (AOTI). This two day workshop gives both an excellent overview into the multi-faceted needs and unique challenges of unaccompanied asylum-seeking, trafficked, and refugee young people from an emotional, social, and psychological perspective.

€20.00

CPD/CORU Information Session

Online Event

Latest from CORU following a meeting with the board of directors within Social Care Ireland. Get your questions answered – Participants will have the opportunity to ask questions. Charlotte is also interested to hear about the information and supports needed for your professional development. CPD – you’re doing it, but you’re possibly not realizing it! Let us show you how to use this to your advantage

Free

Group Facilitation Training

Online

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

CPD/CORU Information Session

Online

You’ve got questions, we’ve got answers. Join Charlotte the CPD Coordinator for this Zoom session and discover all about CPD and COUR registration.

Free

CPD/CORU Information Session

Online

CPD/CORU REGISTRATION OPEN FORUM via Zoom meetings Wednesday 1st November 2023 @ 12:30 pm until 2 pm You’ve got questions, we’ve got answers. Join Charlotte the CPD Coordinator for this Zoom session and discover: CORU registration - why it is important for social care workers Grandparenting - two year transitional period with three different routes of eligibility What is the Code of Professional Conduct and Ethics What are the Standards of proficiency What does 'Fitness to Practice' mean in practice What is Continuing Professional Development and how to go about it Exploring the benefits of Reflective practice Latest from CORU […]

Free

Decider skills

Athlone springs hotel Athlone, Co. Roscommon, Ireland, N37 F9T3

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.

CPD/CORU Information Session

Online

CPD/CORU REGISTRATION OPEN FORUM via Zoom meetings Thursday 9th November 2023 @ 12:00 pm until 1.30 pm You’ve got questions, we’ve got answers. Join Charlotte the CPD Coordinator for this Zoom session and discover: CORU registration - why it is important for social care workers Grandparenting - two year transitional period with three different routes of eligibility What is the Code of Professional Conduct and Ethics What are the Standards of proficiency What does 'Fitness to Practice' mean in practice What is Continuing Professional Development and how to go about it Exploring the benefits of Reflective practice Latest from CORU […]

Free

CPD/CORU Information Session

Online

CPD/CORU REGISTRATION OPEN FORUM via Zoom meetings Wednesday 15h November 2023 @ 12:30 pm until 2 pm You’ve got questions, we’ve got answers. Join Charlotte the CPD Coordinator for this Zoom session and discover: CORU registration - why it is important for social care workers Grandparenting - two year transitional period with three different routes of eligibility What is the Code of Professional Conduct and Ethics What are the Standards of proficiency What does 'Fitness to Practice' mean in practice What is Continuing Professional Development and how to go about it Exploring the benefits of Reflective practice Latest from CORU […]

Free

Attachment and Trauma Informed Care In a Health & Social Care Context

Radisson Hotel Northgate St, Athlone, Co. Westmeath, Athlone, Ireland

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.

€30.00

CPD/CORU Information Session

Online

Latest from CORU following a meeting with the board of directors within Social Care Ireland.
Get your questions answered – Participants will have the opportunity to ask questions. Charlotte is also interested to hear about the information and supports needed for your professional development. CPD – you’re doing it, but you’re possibly not realizing it! Let us show you how to use this to your advantage

Free

CPD/CORU Information Session

Online

Latest from CORU following a meeting with the board of directors within Social Care Ireland. Get your questions answered – Participants will have the opportunity to ask questions. Charlotte is also interested to hear about the information and supports needed for your professional development
CPD – you’re doing it, but you’re possibly not realizing it! Let us show you how to use this to your advantage

Free

Working effectively with individual with Intellectual Disability and Mental Health Difficulties

Online

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.

CPD/CORU information session

Online

Latest from CORU following a meeting with the board of directors within Social Care Ireland. Get your questions answered – Participants will have the opportunity to ask questions. Charlotte is also interested to hear about the information and supports needed for your professional development

Free

PETMA© – Train the Trainer Programme Level 1 April 25th, 26th and May 1st, 2nd and 3rd May 2024

PETMA© is an Irish, human right based approach to supporting service users who may get verbally or physically distressed at times. PETMA© focuses on preventing service users from getting distressed, using intense modules to facilitate an understanding of the realities of having disabilities and how this impacts their ability to understand and comprehend information. The training focuses on stressors, triggers, functions and maintain factors. It provides training on de-escalation techniques such as understanding, empathy and collaboration. It is a powerful training that equips staff to develop meaningful relationships to support service users to a calmer place. A TNA is conducted […]

CPD/CORU Information Session

Online

Latest from CORU following a meeting with the board of directors within Social Care Ireland. Get your questions answered – Participants will have the opportunity to ask questions. Charlotte is also interested to hear about the information and supports needed for your professional development
CPD – you’re doing it, but you’re possibly not realizing it! Let us show you how to use this to your advantage

Free

CPD/CORU Information Session

Online

Latest from CORU following a meeting with the board of directors within Social Care Ireland. Get your questions answered – Participants will have the opportunity to ask questions. Charlotte is also interested to hear about the information and supports needed for your professional development
CPD – you’re doing it, but you’re possibly not realizing it! Let us show you how to use this to your advantage

Free

CPD/CORU Information Session

Online

Latest from CORU following a meeting with the board of directors within Social Care Ireland.
Get your questions answered – Participants will have the opportunity to ask questions. Charlotte is also interested to hear about the information and supports needed for your professional development
CPD – you’re doing it, but you’re possibly not realizing it! Let us show you how to use this to your advantage.

Free

Social Care Ireland Annual Conference 2024

Radisson Blu Hotel Ditchley House, Little Island, Cork, Ireland

Save the date for next years conference - 2nd and the 3rd of April 2025 in the Fairways in Dundalk! Thank you to all the presenters and delegates that attended this years annual Social Care Ireland conference in the Radisson Blu in Cork. The conference committee rely on volunteers to make it a success and we value your feedback so we can make it even better! This survey is for the delegates that attended the conference it will take 4 minutes to complete. EXTENDED CONFERENCE BROCHURE Provisional Conference Timetable Thank you to all our sponsors have a look at the […]

€40.00 – €220.00

Solution Focused Brief Therapy

Online

This is an interdisciplinary event, Social Care Ireland are collaborating with the Irish Association of Social Work and the Irish Society of Chartered Physiotherapists. We have collaborated on similar events in the past that have been very successful. Sharing learning from different professions views has many advantages. (SFBT) is an effective, respectful, and powerful tool for workers in the health and social care field. SFBT focuses on client’s resources and skills, rather than on their deficits and weaknesses to help them to find solutions and create preferred futures rather than dwelling on past failures.

€10.00

Foundations of Inclusive practice – A Social Role Valorisation (SRV) taster

Online

Social Care Ireland are delighted to be working on this project with Charlotte Knight; Supported Self-Directed Living (SSDL) Trainer and Consultant and Pamela Mansell (SSDL) Trainer, Executive Coach and Consultant. This taster workshop is suitable for any social care practitioner who has no prior knowledge of Social Role Valorisation (SRV) and would like to find out more. This session offers a brief overview of the central concepts; social devaluation, wounding, power of roles and the potential to bring about positive change in the lives of marginalised people.

Free

Motivational Interviewing Level 1

Online

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 Association of Occupational Therapists of Ireland (AOTI), and the Irish Society of Chartered Physiotherapists (ISCP). 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.

€10.00

An Introduction to Social Role Valorisation

Online

Social Care Ireland are delighted to be back working on this project with Charlotte Knight; Supported Self-Directed Living (SSDL) Trainer and Consultant and Pamela Mansell (SSDL) Trainer, Executive Coach and Consultant. Last year we ran a taster workshop and this five day workshop which was highly successful and sold out. These series of session will delve a little deeper into the concept of social devaluation, wounding, power of roles and the potential to bring about positive change. This series is suitable for any social care practitioner who has no prior knowledge of Social Role Valorisation (SRV) and would like to find out more.

€30.00

Decider Skills

Portlaoise

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), and the Association of Occupational Therapists of Ireland (AOTI). 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.

Leadership – Winning Negotiations

Online

This collaboration between Social Care Ireland and the Irish Association of Social Work has successfully facilitated several interdisciplinary leadership workshops together. This year six professions from the professional development network identified leadership skills as a CPD need within their profession. Expanding these interdisciplinary Leadership workshops would be beneficial to share learning across a whole host of different leadership roles within the different sectors

€10.00

Attachment and Trauma Informed Care in a Health & Social Care Context

Radisson Blu Hotel Athlone

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.

€30.00

CPD/CORU Information Session

Online

CPD/CORU REGISTRATION OPEN FORUM via Zoom meetings Wednesday 29th May 2024 @ 1. 00 pm until 2.30 pm You’ve got questions, we’ve got answers. Join Charlotte the CPD Coordinator and registered social care worker for this Zoom session and discover: CORU registration - why it is important for social care workers Grandparenting - two year transitional period with three different routes of eligibility What is the Code of Professional Conduct and Ethics What are the Standards of proficiency What does 'Fitness to Practice' mean in practice What is Continuing Professional Development and how to go about it Exploring the benefits […]

Free

Leadership – Overcoming an Immunity to Change.

Online

This collaboration between Social Care Ireland and the Irish Association of Social Work has successfully facilitated several interdisciplinary leadership workshops together. This year six professions from the professional development network identified leadership skills as a CPD need within their profession. Expanding these interdisciplinary Leadership workshops would be beneficial to share learning across a whole host of different leadership roles within the different sectors.

€10.00

Advanced Workshop: Who’s Life is it Anyway? – Enabling Choice & Self Direction in Social Care Practice

Online

This is a bespoke workshop specifically for social care workers/leaders/managers that have some understanding of Social Role Valorisation. This workshop will focus in depth on some the key concept of choice. The belief that people with disability are capable of determining their own life choices – including where and with whom they live, how they support themselves and what they aspire to achieve – is relatively recent. Historically, services for people with disability had largely been premised on the belief that they needed to be segregated in institutions, away from mainstream community life.

€10.00

CPD/CORU Information Session

Online

CPD/CORU REGISTRATION OPEN FORUM via Zoom meetings Monday 19th August 2024 @ 12.30 pm until 2.00 pm You’ve got questions, we’ve got answers. Join Charlotte the CPD Coordinator and registered social care worker for this Zoom session and discover: CORU registration - why it is important for social care workers Grandparenting - two year transitional period with three different routes of eligibility What is the Code of Professional Conduct and Ethics What are the Standards of proficiency What does 'Fitness to Practice' mean in practice What is Continuing Professional Development and how to go about it Exploring the benefits of […]

Free

Motivational Interviewing Level 1

Online

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 Association of Occupational Therapists of Ireland (AOTI), and the Irish Society of Chartered Physiotherapists (ISCP). 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. If your profession is included in the list above please purchase a ticket from their webpage. 

€10.00

Advanced SRV: Breaking Barriers & Building Bonds – Nurturing authentic connections and building relationships in community

Online

Eligible Target Group: any social care practitioner who has previously participated in the Introduction to SRV course and would like to develop their knowledge and skills in more advanced SRV themes as they relate to social care practice. Please do not book more that one ticket at a time. If you want to book multiple tickets please email cpd@socialcareireland.ie. Duration: Each workshop is a 3 hour online interactive web cast session

€10.00

The Decider Skills Training in Athlone

Athlone springs hotel Athlone, Co. Roscommon, Ireland, N37 F9T3

This is an interdisciplinary event. SCI are collaborating with IASW, AOTI, IASLT and INDI. A limited number of places are available to each discipline. Please note this event is open to both members and non members. This course is supported by funding from the National HSCP Office and priority is for those in Publicly Funded Health Care Settings.

Motivational Interviewing Level 2

Online

Level 2: Motivational Interviewing (Progress to level 2 once level 1 is completed). The requirements of these workshops are participants need to complete level 1 prior to attending level 2. 

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 Association of Occupational Therapists of Ireland (AOTI), and the Irish Society of Chartered Physiotherapists (ISCP). 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. If your profession is included in the list above please purchase a ticket from their webpage

€10.00

Advanced SRV: From the Margins to the Middle – Strategies for Real Integration in Community Life

Online

Date: 6th September 2024

Time: 10 am until 1 pm

Cost: €10 Administration fee

Venue: Online Advanced Inclusive Practice Workshop

Eligible Target Group: any social care practitioner who has previously participated in the Introduction to SRV course and would like to develop their knowledge and skills in more advanced SRV themes as they relate to social care practice. Please do not book more that one ticket at a time. If you want to book multiple tickets please email cpd@socialcareireland.ie Duration: Each workshop is a 3 hour online interactive web cast session

€10.00

Attachment and Trauma Informed Care in a Health & Social Care Context

Radisson Blu Athlone Northgate Street, Athlone, Ireland

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).

€30.00