Learning and Development Centre

⭐Managing Challenging Behaviour
📅15th October 2026
⏰14:00 to 16:30
🤝With Learning and Development Centre Non-Clinical Educator, Clare Hartgen

❓Suitable for: All Professionals in Customer Facing Roles

⭐Course Aim
The aim of this workshop is to provide staff with the skills and understanding to have greater confidence in dealing with aggressive behaviour safely.

⭐Topics Covered
✅Why people become aggressive
✅How to assess risk
✅How to respond to conflict
✅The basics of de-escalation
✅Dealing with violence in the waiting room
✅Communication

💻For further information and to book your place, please visit the link below:
https://www.learninganddevelopmentcentre.co.uk/courses/managing-challenging-behaviour-3/managing-challenging-behaviour--15th-october-2026/15-10-2026

⭐Oliver McGowan Mandatory Training on Learning Disability and Autism: Tier 1, Part 2
📅14th October 2026
⏰12:30 to 13:30
🤝Hosted by Award Training and facilitated by the Learning and Development Centre.

❓Suitable for: All staff working in a registered health and/or social care setting that require a general awareness of the support autistic people or people with a learning disability may need. These will be staff members that are not making care decisions about patients.

As of July 2022, all registered health and social care providers are now required to provide training for their staff in learning disability and autism, including how to interact appropriately with autistic people and people who have a learning disability.

‼️ALL DELEGATES MUST COMPLETE THE 90-MINUTE ONLINE LEARNING MODULE BEFORE ATTENDING THIS EVENT. CLICK HERE TO ACCESS THE MODULE VIA E-LEARNING FOR HEALTHCARE: https://www.e-lfh.org.uk/.../the-oliver-mcgowan.../

⭐From our training partners, Award Training:

The Oliver McGowan Mandatory Training on Learning Disability and Autism is a standardised, government-recommended training package designed to ensure consistent, high-quality learning across the health and social care sector.

Delivered by trained and approved facilitators, the structured approach ensures that:

✔ Content and delivery remain consistent, making the training fully transferable between employers

✔ It aligns with national standards and best practices, as recognised by leading advisory bodies in health and social care

✔ Staff receive the essential knowledge and understanding required by the Health and Care Act 2022

💻For more information and to make your booking, please visit the link below:
https://www.learninganddevelopmentcentre.co.uk/courses/oliver-mcgowan-mandatory-training-on-learning-disability-and-autism-tier-1-part-2/oliver-mcgowan-mandatory-training-on-learning-disability-and-autism-tier-1-part-2--14th-october-2026/14-10-2026

⭐Paediatric Asthma Update
📅13th October 2026
⏰09:30 to 11:45
🤝With Laura Rush, Specialist Respiratory Nurse

❓Suitable for: Healthcare professionals that are already managing asthma patients in practice and would like an update in Paediatric Asthma.

This course will cover:
✅A refresher: overview of paediatric asthma/epidemiology
✅The latest guidance on diagnosing asthma in children:
✅What makes it more likely?
✅What about the under 5’s?
✅Wheeze in early childhood: Episodic viral wheeze
✅Multiple trigger wheeze
✅The latest guidance on treating asthma in children
✅The pharmacological and non-pharmacological management of asthma
✅Overview of guidelines
✅Choosing an inhaler device and inhaler technique
✅Recognising and managing acute exacerbations.
✅Action Plans and supported self-management

💻For more information on this course and to book your place, click the link below:
https://www.learninganddevelopmentcentre.co.uk/courses/paediatric-asthma-update-3/paediatric-asthma-update--13th-october-2026/13-10-2026

⭐Introduction to Asthma
📅30th September 2026
⏰12:30 to 14:45
🤝With Specialist Respiratory Nurse Educator, Laura Rush

❓Suitable for All Healthcare Professionals

⭐This webinar will give a basic overview of:

· Asthma in the UK and its impact

· The difference between a normal airway and an asthma airway

· The symptoms associated with asthma

· How to take good history and what makes asthma more likely and less likely

· Assessing and managing asthma

· The asthma guidelines

💻To find out more information and to make a booking, visit the link below:
https://www.learninganddevelopmentcentre.co.uk/courses/introduction-to-asthma-3/introduction-to-asthma--30th-september-2026/30-9-2026

⭐Introduction to Wound Assessments and Dressings Selection
📅18th September 2026
⏰09:30 to 12:30
🤝With Alexandra Bishop, Tissue Viability Nurse Specialist
📍The Watermark, Erme Court, Ivybridge, PL21 0SZ.

❓Suitable for: Registered, clinical healthcare professionals, introducing types and variations of wounds seen in primary care and how to treat them, with a summary of the most suitable dressings for each presentation.

💻For further info and to make your booking please visit the link below:
https://www.learninganddevelopmentcentre.co.uk/courses/introduction-to-wound-assessments-and-dressings-selection-3/introduction-to-wound-assessments-and-dressings-selection--18th-september-2026-0930-to-1230-in-person-training-hosted-at-the-watermark-erme-court-ivybridge-pl21-0szwith-alexandra-bishop-tissue-viability-nurse-specialist/18-9-2026

⭐Introduction to Phlebotomy
📆15th September 2026
⏰09:30 to 13:00
🤝With Tracey Owen
📍The Woolwell Centre, Darklake Lane, Woolwell, Plymouth. PL6 7TR.

❓ Suitable for all Healthcare Professionals.

❗Please note that following this course it is expected that delegates will return to a suitable healthcare setting and complete a competency document under the supervision of an experienced practitioner. The certificate of attendance at this training session and the completed competency document together evidence proficiency in phlebotomy.

⭐Learning Outcomes:
• Define venepuncture.
• Identify suitable veins for venepuncture.
• Explore the problems in identifying suitable veins for venepuncture.
• Identify complications.
• Demonstrate health and safety awareness.
• Anatomy and physiology of the arm.
• Demonstrate understanding of the appropriate equipment required
• Perform venepuncture safety under stimulated conditions
• Describe infection prevention measures
• Identify the action required in the event of a needle stick injury
• Effectively communicate with patients

💻To read more about this course and to book your space, visit the link below:
https://www.learninganddevelopmentcentre.co.uk/courses/introduction-to-phlebotomy-3/introduction-to-phlebotomy--15th-september-2026/15-9-2026

⭐Paediatric Asthma Update
📅13th October 2026
⏰09:30 to 11:45
🤝With Laura Rush, Specialist Respiratory Nurse

❓Suitable for: Healthcare professionals that are already managing asthma patients in practice and would like an update in Paediatric Asthma.

This course will cover:
✅A refresher: overview of paediatric asthma/epidemiology
✅The latest guidance on diagnosing asthma in children:
✅What makes it more likely?
✅What about the under 5’s?
✅Wheeze in early childhood: Episodic viral wheeze
✅Multiple trigger wheeze
✅The latest guidance on treating asthma in children
✅The pharmacological and non-pharmacological management of asthma
✅Overview of guidelines
✅Choosing an inhaler device and inhaler technique
✅Recognising and managing acute exacerbations.
✅Action Plans and supported self-management

💻For more information on this course and to book your place, click the link below:
https://www.learninganddevelopmentcentre.co.uk/courses/paediatric-asthma-update-3/paediatric-asthma-update--13th-october-2026/13-10-2026

⭐Performing Spirometry Update
📅17th September 2026
🕤09:30 to 11:45
🤝With Specialist Respiratory Nurse, Laura Rush.

❓Suitable for: Any professional working with Spirometry

This session will cover:
✅The indications and contraindications of spirometry
✅Infection control
✅Preparing the equipment
✅Patient preparation
✅Performing spirometry in line with ARTP standards- getting a good result
✅Technical acceptability and reproducibility
✅Spirometry demonstration
✅Reversibility testing
✅Recognising errors in spirometry
✅Introduction to the measurements obtained from spirometry
✅The National register

This session covers both adult and child spirometry

💻To make a booking, visit our course page using the link below:
https://www.learninganddevelopmentcentre.co.uk/courses/performing-spirometry-update-3/performing-spirometry-update--17th-september-2026/17-9-2026