This module provides background, advice and guidance on working with Children and Young People (CYP) with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) who may present behaviour that challenges us. The course is aimed at supporting the work of drivers or Vehicle Passenger Assistants (VPAs) working with the Brighton and Hove Home to School Transport (HTST) service. 

This module provides information and guidance on working with Children and Young People (CYP) with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) who have a language and/or communication difficulty or disability. The course is aimed at supporting the work of drivers or Vehicle Passenger Assistants (VPAs) working with the Brighton and Hove Home to School Transport (HTST) service. 

An introduction to the safeguarding and child protection requirements for drivers or Vehicle Passenger Assistants (VPAs) working with the Brighton and Hove Home to School Transport (HTST) service. 

The Accessible Information Standard became law in 2016 and this course will help social care and health staff understand their legal duties.

This course is mandatory for all staff in BHCC Health and Adult Social Care. 

It will also be of interest to staff who engage with public, including those in the independent and voluntary sector as it considers how to support people who have a disability, impairment or sensory loss with information.

The new accessible information guide has been developed by Brighton & Hove City Council to improve our communications with people and help us meet our legal duties under the accessible information standard for health and adult social care services. The standard defines a consistent approach to make sure people with a disability, impairment or sensory loss can access and understand the information they need.

The guidance has been broadened to make it relevant for everyone to use. It includes suggestions to improve the way people communicate face-to-face, on the phone and in writing, as well as advice on producing information in different formats (such as large print, audio, easy read, translations or braille), or providing interpreters and other communications support.

This course is aimed at people working within adult social care

Knowledge checks to assist the assessment of competency in social care provider services.

From assessing a casualty to providing them with CPR, this course provides you with everything you need to know to save a person's life.

This course is made up of 4 sections and a test. You must complete all sections of the course in order to access the test.

• Introduction
• 1. Basic Life Support for Adults
• 2. Treating a Choking Child
• 3. Obstructed Airways - Infants
• 4. Training and Record Keeping

These modules look at how to respond to and support adults in the event of a medical emergency. Care and support staff in adult provider services are expected to have knowledge about the administration of basic life support. These modules, provided by the British Red Cross will help staff working in a range of settings to recognise when someone is experiencing a medical emergency and the required response.

Please note: As these modules are not hosted on the Learning Gateway there is no certificate of completion. Undertaking these modules is not a substitute for practical first aid training and does not qualify you as a workplace first aider. It is the responsibility of the manager to ensure that there is sufficient first aid cover in the workplace.

In the event that you are faced with a situation where you need to support someone in an emergency, you must only do so if you feel confident and competent to do so.

This course is aimed at anyone working in a caring role or who work with those who do. 

Note: This course is about the Care Act. This is not the same as the Care Certificate which is a different course.

The Care Act 2014 builds on recent reviews and reforms, replacing numerous previous laws, to provide a coherent approach to Adult Social Care in England. The Act and its Statutory Guidance consolidates and modernises the framework of care and support law. It set out new duties for local authorities and partners and new rights for service users and carers. 

The course covers the Act which aims to:

• Outline clearer, fairer care and support
• Place the emphasis on Wellbeing – physical, mental and emotional needs of both the person requiring care and their carers
• Demonstrate how to prevent and positively offset the need for care and support
• Put people in control of their care

This online learning course has 11 modules for you to access. You can complete any modules that are relevant to your role in any order.  Each module should take about 30 minutes to complete. 

These elearning modules are aimed at Professionals and Practitioners; the people who work, care, support and volunteer in:

• Adult Social Care
• Health
• Local authority partner organisations
• Social care providers
• Housing
• Support organisations in all sectors

Note: You will be issued with an Course Achievement Badge for each completed module.

There are resources connected to each module and a separate Resources section which contains information about the Care Act.

The Information and Knowledge Checks are aimed at

• staff who are new to working in Adult Social Care and have to complete the Care Certificate as part of their workplace induction. 
• staff who have started working for a new employer.
• staff in a new role who already have experience and / or a qualification in Adult Social Care and are required, through management assessment, to complete parts of the Care Certificate.
• staff to refresh knowledge or to help identify areas for development. 

This course is aimed at staff who are new to Care and Support or Health roles. 

This course is relevant to staff in provider services. It is particularly relevant to staff new to adult social care.

There are 15 standards included in the Care Certificate. Some will be partly covered in the modules for Person Centred Values and others are supported by other elearning or formal training courses.

The Person Centred Values course covers a number of components from the following Care Certificate standards:

• Standard 1 - Understand Your Role
• Standard 2 - Personal Development
• Standard 3 - Duty of Care
• Standard 5 - Work in a Person Centred Way
• Standard 7 - Privacy and Dignity

This course is aimed at all adults who would like to chaperone children in the entertainment business.

Please read the Gateway account instructions that you have been given carefully.  If you can not access thie elearning it maybe because you have not set up your Gateway account correctly.

This course is aimed at people wanting to develop or refresh their knowledge of communication including people who are completing the Care Certificate

It will help you to meet the Care Certificate Standard 6 - Communication and Recording.

This course is mandatory for all staff undertaking Care Act assessments

To access the course click Continue in the box above.

Continuing Healthcare (CHC) Funding is National Health Service funding available to individuals to pay for their package of care and support when their primary support needs are due to their health needs.

Eligibility for Continuing Health Care Funding means that the provision of services that meet a person's health and social care needs are funded and delivered by the NHS and who has governance of this delivery.

Correctly identifying eligibility for Continuing Healthcare (CHC) Funding has financial benefits for the individual who might otherwise be self funding their care. It is illegal for a local authority to fund and provide care to those eligible for CHC funding (people who have a primary health care need) and without correct identification of people who might be eligible, the local authority might illegally fund and provide care to people, which would impact on the Community Care budget. Therefore, staff in Brighton & Hove City Council Assessment Services have an important role in identifying individuals who might be eligible for CHC Funding.

This course is intended to familiarise participants with some basic concepts in the field of gangs, vulnerability and exploitation. It comprises a short video presentation, some specific learning resources and a multiple-choice assessment based on case study scenarios.

The course is suitable for all staff working in a range of settings including families, children and adolescents; education; social care; housing providers; supported accommodation; regulatory services; community safety; mental health; public health.

This course covers all aspects of Dementia including:

• What it is 
• Living with it
• Causes
• Diagnosis and sources of help
• Common difficulties and how to deal with them
• The emotional impact
• Positive communication

Designed for everyone who works in the care industry, looking at what equality and diversity means to you and the people you care for.

This course is aimed at staff who are new to working in Families, Children and Learning services at Brighton & Hove City Council.

All staff should also complete the full council induction.

This presentation is for Care Crew new starters, working under Covid-19 social distancing circumstances, who need to have a good basic understanding of nutrition and hydration. Please note, there is no certificate of completion.

This course is free to council staff and some business partners. However, others will have to pay a small charge to access this course. 

This course on food Hygiene is made up of 4 sections and a test. You must complete all sections of the course in order to access the test.

• Introduction
• Hazards & Poisoning
• Personal Hygiene
• The 4 C's of Food Safety
• Procedures & Premises              
• Test

This course is aimed at professionals and volunteers in advice and support roles, who may be visiting people in their homes.

This new online learning provides an easy to access and time efficient way to learn about the serious impact of fuel poverty and cold homes on the health of local residents. The course can be accessed on any device with internet access, providing flexible learning that can be completed in your own time.

Fuel poverty and cold homes present a serious health risk, especially to those who are vulnerable. Many of these health risks are preventable by taking steps to make a home warmer, through interventions such as income maximisation, switching, saving energy in the home and improving home energy efficiency.  In Brighton and Hove, there are around 15,000 homes in fuel poverty.  Excess winter deaths are almost three times higher in the coldest quarter of housing than in the warmest quarter, with an estimated 40% of all excess winter deaths attributable to inadequate housing.

This online learning is for practitioners who work with people on low incomes, or who are at risk from living in a cold home due to young or old age, pregnancy, pre-existing illness or disability. The course provides an introduction to:

• local and national fuel poverty
• the health risks of living in a cold home
• how to recognise fuel poverty
• what advice to give
• what support is available

By completing this online learning, you will be better able to recognise fuel poverty and know how to support clients living in a cold home.

Practitioners will be able to more easily recognise the signs of fuel poverty and cold homes during appointments with clients, whether office based or in the client's home, and enable them to give advice and make referrals for further support.

This course has three modules for you to access.

Each module should take about 30 minutes to complete.

This course is for anyone who works in the Care industry. It'll help you understand the importance of confidentiality and how to safely and legally handle people's personal information.

This module introduces the Equality Act and your role, as drivers and Vehicle Passenger Assistants (VPAs), in supporting children and young people in relation to equalities.

 An introduction to the role of a driver or Vehicle Passenger Assistant (VPA) working with the Brighton and Hove Home to School Transport (HTST) service.

An introduction to the Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) of children and young people transported by the Home to School Transport service.(HSTS)

This module provides information and guidance on working with Children and Young People (CYP) with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) who have autism or an Autistic Spectrum Condition (ASC). The course is aimed at supporting the work of drivers or Vehicle Passenger Assistants (VPAs) working with the Brighton and Hove Home to School Transport (HTST) service. 

This training module provides information and guidance on working with Children and Young People (CYP) with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) who have a diagnosis of Epilepsy. The course is aimed at supporting the work of drivers or Vehicle Passenger Assistants (VPAs) working with the Brighton and Hove Home to School Transport (HTST) service. 

Under the Care Act 2014 local authorities must involve people in all decisions about their care and support. People should be active partners in the key processes of assessment, care and support planning, review and any enquiries in relation to abuse or neglect. 

This can mean appointing an independent advocate to support a person's involvement if there isn't an appropriate person, such as a friend or family member, to fulfil the role. 

Independent advocacy is also important during a safeguarding enquiry or Safeguarding Adult Review (SAR).

This course explains what you can do to help keep your workplace clean and healthy and avoid the spread of some of the most common infections. 

This course is made up of 4 sections and a test. You must complete all sections of the course in order to access the test.

1. Your Back

2. Daily Tasks

3. LITE Assessment

4. Techniques

This course is free to council staff and some business partners. However, others will have to pay a small charge to access this course.

This course will provide you with the basics of safely and legally administering medication to residents in a care home.

The Mental Capacity Act (2005) - Introduction

This course provides an overview of the Act and is relevant to staff supporting adults who may at times lack the capacity to make certain decisions.

Learning Outcomes:

By the end of this course you will be able to:

• describe the five key principles of the Mental Capacity Act
• explain the relevance of the key principles to your work practice
• describe good practice in supporting people making decisions
• describe the two-stage test for capacity
• describe some of the relevant measures in making best interest decisions

The Mental Capacity Act (2005) concerns individuals 16 years and over with an 'impairment or disturbance in the functioning of the mind or brain', who may at times lack the capacity to make a specific decision.  Professionals supporting such people have a duty to abide by the Mental Capacity Act and have regard to the Code of Practice.

This course will help you better understand the experiences of your patients who live with mental health conditions, dementia, and learning disabilities; and will look at ways to help you improve the care you provide them with.

This course is aimed at all staff

The course will give you an understanding of Modern Slavery and Brighton & Hove City Council's procedure for working with people that may have experienced Modern Slavery or Human Trafficking.

Note that this course contains two elearning modules and cannot mark as complete until both have been completed.

Test course 

How well do you know the people you support? What are their interests, likes and dislikes? How well do you know yourself? What are your own strengths? 

This course will guide you as you complete a one page profile on yourself.  You will develop your understanding of how these profiles can contribute to person centred practice. 

Whether you are a manager or a frontline practitioner, you'll benefit from having a one-page profile and understanding how they work.

This course was developed by the Social Care Institute for Excellence. It includes a five minute video, alternatively there is a transcript included if you do not have access to sound on your computer.

This course from SCIE   is aimed at social care professionals and people receiving social care support.

It will help you to understand personalisation and to explore what you can do to make personalisation happen.

By the end of this module you should have a better understanding about:

• what personalisation means and why it's important
• where the ideas behind personalisation come from
• how people are putting the ideas behind personalisation into practice
• what a personalised care and support system looks like and what it can offer people
• how you can be a part of making personalisation happen

Due to the current Covid-19 training restrictions, this free, easy to access and good quality elearning Positive Behaviour Support (PBS) Awareness course provides a straightforward introduction to PBS. It explains PBS, putting values into practice, how behaviour works and PBS interventions. This elearning course can be used for induction, as well as a refresher.

This elearning course takes about 3 or 4 hours to complete and can be done in small bite size chunks to suit your learning style.

Please note for those services who are signed up to PBS Sussex, new staff must complete the BILD course and provide a course certificate before attending Restrictive Physical Interventions training.This face to face training will be risk assessed arranged with specific service managers. To obtain the BILD PBS course certificate you must complete the online assessment. Please note; this isn't applicable to external organisations who want to access an introductory course to PBS.

This is an external elearning course so please be aware that it cannot mark as complete on the Learning Gateway. So for your own training record please ensure you save and retain your BILD PBS course certificate from the elearning course.

This course will help care workers

• understand what reablement is
• give you knowledge of key elements of reablement services
• understand how the approach differs from traditional home care
• feel more confident in your day-to-day work

This course is in development - please ignore it for now.

This elearning course is for Recruiting Managers in Adult Social Care as well as those staff who have a responsibility for recruitment. This course is available to those Adult Social Care staff who work in the Council and the Independent and Voluntary Sector.

Recruiting the right people with the right skills to the right job first time, and having a workforce that reflects the diversity of the City is important to us. It ensures we can deliver high quality, value-for-money services to the diverse communities we serve. 

That is why our recruitment and selection training programme is mandatory for managers and staff who may be involved in the recruitment and selection process within the council.

This elearning module is the first part of the recruitment and selection training programme and will enable you to recruit and select new staff fairly and consistently in line with discrimination and other relevant legislation and best practice.  This module covers: 

• Introduction to Recruitment & Selection
• Planning your Recruitment
• Advertising
• Shortlisting
• Interviewing
• Pre-employment checks
• Quiz

This module must be completed by all recruiting managers and those staff who have a responsibility for recruiting. It must be completed alongside the new Recruiting Virtually eLearning.  Checks will be made that these modules have been completed.  

To get the most out of this training you should read the council's Recruitment & Selection Policy before completing this elearning. 

This course is aimed at service practitioners It will be of particular interest to you if you work with children, young people or families.

Research in Practice provides a range of resources and learning opportunities based on academic research, practice expertise and evidence from service users.

Publications on mental health, learning disabilities, strength-based working, adult safeguarding, complex working, and more are available.

This course is useful to anyone who works with adults who are at risk of abuse or neglect or who works in a service that applies to them.

All people who support adults should know how to safeguard them from harm. This not only includes frontline staff working in adult social care services, but anyone who provides services to people including adults; for example councillors, housing, leisure, libraries or reception staff. This course aims to raise your awareness of how we safeguard adults in Brighton & Hove.

Everyone who supports adults should know how to safeguard them from harm. 
The course uses a series of questions and scenarios. These are not scored. Please try these even if you aren't sure of the answer. They are designed to encourage reflection on your current level of knowledge and understanding. 
At the end of the module there is a graded Quiz. 
The activities throughout the course do not contribute to your final Quiz score.
This module will take about one hour to complete.

This course is useful to anyone who comes into contact with children, works with children or who works in a service that applies to them.

This course explores safeguarding issues, the signs and types of abuse as well as online safety issues and an overview of the referral process.

This module will take about one hour to complete.

This course is useful to anyone who works with children or who works in a service that applies to them.

This course introduces the definitions, signs and indicators of abuse as well as what to do to address the issue.

This module will take about one hour to complete.

This course is suitable for Children’s Services and CVS practitioners and carers whose role involves lifting and handling of children and must be completed before undertaking any handling of children in the workplace.

It is an introductory course offered as a partial replacement to the suspended face to face Safer Handling of Children basic awareness training. The course covers the knowledge and theory elements of the basics of safer handling of children & young people, the importance of safe practice for your own health and wellbeing and for the children & young people you support. It gives an overview of what not to do and descriptions of correct safer handling of children & young people procedures.

There is a multiple choice assessment to be completed at the end of the course. You must obtain 80% in order to pass the course and can take the assessment multiple times.

After completing this elearning course and passing the online assessment you must not undertake a safer handling of children task in your workplace until you have been assessed as competent to do so by a suitably experienced and trained member of staff in your workplace.

This course is aimed at  anyone working with people who may need help to assist them with safer people handling who have been asked by their manager to complete this.

It is an introductory course offered as a partial replacement to the suspended face to face safer people handling basic awareness training. 

The course covers the knowledge and theory elements of the basics of safer people handling, the importance of safe practice for your own health and wellbeing and for the people you support. It gives an overview of what not to do and descriptions of correct safer people handling procedures.

There is a multiple choice assessment to be completed at the end of the course. You must obtain 80% in order to pass the course and can take the assessment multiple times.

After completing this elearning course and passing the online assessment you must not undertake a safer people handling task in your workplace until you have been assessed as competent to do so by a suitably experienced and trained member of staff in your workplace.  

This course is aimed at all managers with recruitment responsibilities and managers in Children's Services and Adult Social Care.

It is strongly recommended that all managers complete Safer Recruitment as it describes good recruitment practice.

This course covers the requirements needed to ensure that people who may pose a risk or who are unsuitable to work with children or adults at risk, are not recruited by Brighton & Hove City Council.

This module will take about 30 minutes to complete.

This course links to training from the Zero Suicide Alliance.

Gateway Module is a 5 minute introduction which could give you the skills to help someone considering suicide. It will give you tips on how to approach someone if you are worried they may be considering taking their own life.

ZSA Suicide Awareness Training is a more in depth session of about 20 minutes. It aims to give you the skills and confidence to help someone who may be considering suicide. It focuses on breaking stigma and encouraging open conversations. 

This Supporting Children with English as an Additional Language in the Early Years elearning module is aimed at EAL Practitioners and those who work with refugee and newly arrived families and children.  It may also be informative and useful for all staff who work in schools and in Early Years.

This course explains how to ensure children with English as an Additional Language (EAL) have and make a positive start during their early years.

The elearning module covers;

• Bilingualism and multilingualism
• What Parents Say
• Parent Worries
• Good Practice
• Examples of the experiences and stories of children with EAL
• What EMAS does

In addition there are also some useful resources

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During the following module you will gain an understanding of exploitation how it can manifest itself in various ways.

Child Protection is an emotive subject, if the details in this module bring up any issues for yourself, that you feel you need to talk to anyone about.

Call the Front door for Families on 01273 290400

These resources on diversity should be useful for all staff and residents

In Brighton & Hove we are proud of our many diverse communities.

Even so, there are still issues around discrimination and ignorance.

This course will contain learning from a variety of different communities. This will help inform many and eradicate discrimination and prejudice.

• If you want us to add learning about your community to this course please get in touch with learning.technologies@brighton-hove.gov.uk 

Note: This course is not intended to mark as complete.

During this course, you'll learn how to plan your personal development, how to self-learn, and the importance of listening to good quality, constructive feedback