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Course Outline

    
Aim of training:

  • To enable participants to explore the practical and emotional issues relating to lone working in a safe environment with opportunities to share and build on good practice
    
Objectives:

By the end of the session participants will have had opportunities to:

  • Discuss a range of lone working situations
  • Consider how and where to raise lone working issues
  • Think about practical solutions to areas of risk assessment
  • Consider how and why professional boundaries are important in lone working
  • Gain a basic understanding of stress management
    

Agenda

    

Times

Session Content

Methods

9.30

Introductions, Domestics, Group Agreement

 

9.45

10.30

What is meant by lone working?

Lone working issues:

Practical, management, emotional, service user perspective

Individual work followed by group discussion

Small group discussion and feedback

11.00

Break

 

11.20

11.40

Lone working help – where to go for support?

Risk assessment exercise – consequences (people/place/time, incident, reaction/actions, how to avoid/minimise consequences)

Group brainstorm

Small groups (mix participants up)

1.00

Lunch

 

2.00

Professional boundaries – creating a safe working environment

Scenarios and appropriate responses

 

Pairs then group discussion

3.00

Break

 

3.20

Stress management

Signs of stress and mechanisms for dealing with stress

 

Group exercise

3.50

Course review and feedback to trainer

Input & questionnaire

4.00

Close

 

    
     
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