Involving your team, the people you care for, their families and carers in decision-making

This advanced care planning and record keeping course will give an overview of what advance care planning offers, how to introduce advance care planning and proper record-keeping procedures for advance care plans.

Effective facilitation is a must-have key competency for managers, consultants and facilitators. It is a skill that must be present for making sense and taking action when things become uncertain and ambiguous. The ability to confidently lead a group through decision-making and problem-solving processes is invaluable in the workplace.The Advanced Facilitation Skills Course deepens and explores the nature of advanced facilitation techniques in complex group dynamics. This course involves highly practical group work, real-world exercises and extensive peer review.

This programme will guide you through the purpose of care planning and its important components, helping you to make your future care plans simple, yet effective.

Decision making is crucial in all aspects of a social care manager’s role, as is reviewing and monitoring the impact of those decisions for continuous improvement in services. The method or process used to make a decision will change depending on the scenario, and understanding these will help you make decisions more confidently. It is also key to remember the importance of seeking different sources of information to inform decisions, including contributions from people you support, staff and peers.

A key component of a manager’s role in adult social care is to make decisions and provide direction. The service and team members you lead will look to you to make decisions on how to provide the best possible care and support to the people accessing your service.

Shared decision making is a joint process in which a healthcare professional works together with a person to reach a decision about care.

It involves choosing tests and treatments based both on evidence and on the person’s individual preferences, beliefs and values.

It makes sure the person understands the risks, benefits and possible consequences of different options through discussion and information sharing.

Shared decision-making ensures that individuals are supported to make decisions that are right for them. It is a collaborative process through which a clinician supports a patient to reach a decision about their treatment.

The Sussex Training Hub supports the delivery of excellent healthcare and health improvement in GP practices by ensuring the primary care workforce of today and tomorrow are trained in the right numbers, have the necessary skills at the right time and in the right place.