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Intermediate Excel
FULLY BOOKEDBHT's half-day Intermediate Excel course is ideal for people who have taught themselves how to use Excel, but could benefit from learning more efficient and ‘correct’ ways to do things.
Find out more »Introduction to Benefits
BHT have extended this popular introductory level course for 2017, which is aimed at new advisers and other professionals working with low income clients. This revised two day Introduction to Benefits course will allow time to cover the benefits system fully, and includes a comprehensive guide to Universal Credit as it starts to expand to all claimant groups throughout the country.
Find out more »Managing Poor Performance, Negativity & Resistance
This two day course will equip managers with the required knowledge, skills, and techniques to be able to confidently address poor-performance, negativity, and resistance in a positive and proactive way. It will provide you best practice guidance on how to investigate and get to the root-cause of performance issues, make timely interventions and support your teams to reach their performance potential.
Find out more »Coaching Skills for Support Workers
Success through coaching is a partnership that guides and motivates people to create desired results. This two day course will focus on coaching skills for support workers with plenty of opportunity for practise sessions and feedback. The course will provide participants with the tools, support and structure to help them and others set SMARTA goals, eliminate obstacles, and accomplish more.
Find out more »Running Effective Focus Groups
In this one day course we will look at developing objectives, setting up and facilitating focus groups, dealing with group dynamics and getting meaningful outcomes.
Find out more »Universal Credit Comes to Brighton
FULLY BOOKEDBHT is providing a series of ‘get ready for full UC’ courses in the months prior to implementation, and the content will incorporate any new policies announced in the upcoming Budget announcements.
Find out more »Safeguarding Adults
BHT's introductory level course will provide you with an outline of the Sussex Safeguarding Adults Policy and Procedure. You will leave the course with a full understanding of your responsibilities in relation to adult safeguarding, enabling you work confidently.
Find out more »Introduction to Measuring Social Value & Impact
BHT’s new two day Introduction to Measuring Social Value and Impact course will provide you with a comprehensive grounding in the key principles and practice of measuring social, economic, and environmental impact and value, putting your clients at the heart of evaluation and evidence collection.
Find out more »Managing Difficult & Aggressive Situations
BHT’s newly extended Managing Difficult & Aggressive Behaviour course will equip you with the skills, knowledge and techniques required to effectively handle difficult and aggressive behaviour and avoid this escalating into a potentially violent situation.
Find out more »Understanding Trauma (Hastings)
BHT’s new Understanding Trauma course will introduce you to the key concepts and principles of trauma-informed practice and will develop your understanding of the impact that trauma has on your clients. This course will be taking place in Hastings.
Find out more »Welfare Reform & Universal Credit Update (Eastbourne)
As usual, nothing stands still in benefits world, so it’s time for a refresher on what’s going on. BHT’s latest guide to Welfare Reform is a half day guide around all the current news.
Find out more »Empowering Conversations
BHT’s new Empowering Conversations course provides a two day introduction to a strengths based psychosocial model to promote recovery and wellbeing. The model emphasises and supports the person’s potential for recovery. It is strengths based and involves developing hope, motivation, self-esteem, supportive relationship, coping skills and resilience.
Find out more »Professional Boundaries
BHT's interactive Professional Boundaries course is designed to assess your own ability to maintain boundaries and to develop professional and healthy relationships with the vulnerable people you support.
Find out more »Fire Warden
This half day course aims to equip participants with the knowledge and skills required to effectively and safely carry out the role of designated Fire Warden. As well as exploring the principles of fire prevention and emergency procedures, participants will also have the opportunity to use a fire extinguisher.
Find out more »Personal Effectiveness
BHT's one day Personal Effectiveness course will help you to make the most of your time, communicate assertively, develop productive working relationships, and effectively manage expectations. You will leave the course feeling inspired and motivated to take control of your time and workload.
Find out more »Emotional Intelligence for Frontline Workers
This one day course will increase participants’ understanding of EI as a powerful and highly effective toolkit which can be applied in any situation, anywhere, at any time. All of the topics covered during the course will be applied to the needs of frontline workers.
Find out more »Benefits & Mental Health
Claimants experiencing mental health problems are among the most likely to face difficulties and discrimination within the benefits system. This half day course brings you right up to date with what’s happening to the main benefits relating to mental health and how the changes will affect your clients.
Find out more »Attachment Theory
This course will introduce you to the basic principles of Attachment Theory and will explore ways of working with clients who are insecurely attached. You will explore the relationship between attachment patterns and substance misuse, as well as becoming aware of your own attachment patterns and how these interact and impact on your clients' attachment style.
Find out more »Safeguarding Adults
BHT's introductory level course will provide you with an outline of the Sussex Safeguarding Adults Policy and Procedure. You will leave the course with a full understanding of your responsibilities in relation to adult safeguarding, enabling you work confidently.
Find out more »Advanced Excel
BHT’s half-day Advanced Excel course is for people who are very familiar with using Excel and creating formulas, or using Excel to manage a budget. Learn how to set up complex spreadsheets and edit existing ones, create questionnaires and limit question choices, and evaluate or analyse data.
Find out more »Working Effectively with Personality Disorders
BHT’s new Working Effectively with Personality Disorders course aims to improve your ability to support and engage with clients who present with personality disorders. The course will focus on how to improve your own response to working with clients, will address some of the challenges, and recognise the importance of your own wellbeing when working with complex emotional needs.
Find out more »Emergency First Aid at Work (Hastings)
BHT's Level 2 accredited Emergency First Aid at Work course will equip you with the basic life saving skills required to deal with emergencies until professional help arrives. This course will be taking place in Hastings.
Find out more »Coaching Skills for Managers
Coaching is increasingly regarded as a powerful management tool; it is goal-orientated, focused on improving performance, and encourages personal development and reflective practice. BHT’s two day Coaching Skills for Managers course will explore how coaching skills can be applied in your day-to-day management practice as well as considering how organisations can move towards a ‘coaching culture’.
Find out more »Professional Boundaries
BHT's interactive Professional Boundaries course is designed to assess your own ability to maintain boundaries and to develop professional and healthy relationships with the vulnerable people you support.
Find out more »Mindful Approaches to Supporting People with Anxiety, Panic and OCD
BHT's new one day course will explore the causes of anxiety, panic and OCD and methods of treatment and ways to support people who live with anxiety-related conditions, with a particular focus on approaches based on mindfulness.
Find out more »Motivational Interviewing
BHT’s two day Motivational Interviewing course aims to equip you with the knowledge, skills and tools required to effectively apply MI in your work practice, enabling you to better support and empower your clients to make positive behavioural change.
Find out more »Introduction to Benefits
BHT have extended this popular introductory level course for 2017, which is aimed at new advisers and other professionals working with low income clients. This revised two day Introduction to Benefits course, will allow time to cover the benefits system fully, and includes a comprehensive guide to Universal Credit as it starts to expand to all claimant groups throughout the country.
Find out more »Working with Suicidal Clients
BHT’s new Working with Clients who are Suicidal workshop aims to develop your understanding and will give suicide some “airing time”, offer you the opportunity to explore your thoughts and feelings and consider various strategies and approaches to work with clients and those affected by suicide.
Find out more »How to Write Real Client Stories for Impact Evaluation
BHT’s new ‘How to Write Real Client Stories for Impact Evaluation’ course will provide you with the knowledge and tools to create structured questions, interview your clients and service participants, and write engaging and compelling Real Stories for evaluation reports.
Find out more »Leading Teams Through Change
BHT's one day Leading Teams Through Change course will explore all aspects of managing the change process, from anticipating and planning for change, effective communication, understanding and overcoming resistance, and action planning.
Find out more »Emergency First Aid at Work
BHT's Level 2 accredited Emergency First Aid at Work course will equip you with the basic life saving skills required to deal with emergencies until professional help arrives.
Find out more »Supporting Volunteers
BHT’s one day Supporting Volunteers course aims to develop your skills and confidence in supporting volunteers (both practically and emotionally) and will also look at some of the more challenging aspects of the role, such as performance and conflict management.
Find out more »Groupwork Skills
BHT’s two day Groupwork Skills course aims to enhance your skills and understanding of groupwork, increase awareness of the potential benefits of group work, and will reflect on your own behaviour as both a group member and a group facilitator.
Find out more »Managing Difficult & Aggressive Situations
BHT’s newly extended Managing Difficult & Aggressive Behaviour course will equip you with the skills, knowledge and techniques required to effectively handle difficult and aggressive behaviour and avoid this escalating into a potentially violent situation.
Find out more »Mental Health First Aid (MHFA)
This interactive course will teach you how to recognise the signs and symptoms of common mental health issues, provide ‘first-aid’ assistance to someone who may be experiencing a mental health crisis, and effectively guide someone towards the right support services.
Find out more »The Human Givens Approach
BHT’s newly extended The Human Givens Approach course provides an inspiring and practical introduction to the theory and application of human givens solution focussed therapy. The Human Givens model is the only bio-psycho-social model of therapy available today, drawing on advances in brain science, psychology and ancient wisdom to create a truly holistic picture of what it is to be human and how we can achieve emotional health and clear thinking.
Find out more »Safeguarding Adults
BHT's introductory level course will provide you with an outline of the Sussex Safeguarding Adults Policy and Procedure. You will leave the course with a full understanding of your responsibilities in relation to adult safeguarding, enabling you work confidently.
Find out more »Hidden Resources of the Welfare State
The prevailing picture of the ‘welfare state’ is one of cuts, austerity, complexity and sanctions. However, on the side-lines of the actual benefits system is a whole range of under-claimed services, grants, vouchers and discounts that are accessible to people on benefits and low incomes. BHT's new Hidden Resources of the Welfare State workshop will cover the most useful of these, and identify who can access them and how to do it.
Find out more »Person-Centred Relational Skills
When we feel persistently threatened with overwhelming workloads, our ability to be person-centred in our communications can be compromised. Furthermore, we can often find ourselves in situations where it becomes difficult to communicate in a person-centred way. BHT’s new ‘Person-Centred Relational Skills’ course is designed to improve your practice in three key areas: self-care; person-centredness; and advanced communications skills.
Find out more »Managing Poor Performance, Negativity & Resistance
This two day course will equip managers with the required knowledge, skills, and techniques to be able to confidently address poor-performance, negativity, and resistance in a positive and proactive way. It will provide you best practice guidance on how to investigate and get to the root-cause of performance issues, make timely interventions and support your teams to reach their performance potential.
Find out more »Moving into Management
BHT’s two day course aims to develop your confidence and equip you with the fundamental skills, techniques and behaviours required to be a successful manager. The course will explore a range of key responsibilities including, understanding your role and expectations of being a manager, measuring performance and developing your teams to achieve their full potential.
Find out more »Empowering Conversations
BHT’s new Empowering Conversations course provides a two day introduction to a strengths based psychosocial model to promote recovery and wellbeing. The model emphasises and supports the person’s potential for recovery. It is strengths based and involves developing hope, motivation, self-esteem, supportive relationship, coping skills and resilience.
Find out more »Professional Boundaries
BHT's interactive Professional Boundaries course is designed to assess your own ability to maintain boundaries and to develop professional and healthy relationships with the vulnerable people you support.
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