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Safety Intervention Foundation - Refresher (Adult Residential) - Learning and Development courses

Course Title Safety Intervention Foundation - Refresher (Adult Residential)
Course Information

This course is a refresher of the original course:

  • Identify and know how to respond to various levels of crisis behaviours.

  • Recognise how to manage your own consistent, calm behaviour in order to influence a positive outcome in a crisis situation

  • Learn strategies to strengthen non-verbal communication

  • Develop limit-setting strategies when verbally intervening to de-escalate defensive behaviours

  • Learn safety intervention strategies to maximise safety and minimise harm

  • Explore the Decision-Making MatrixSM when assessing Risk Behaviour

  • Demonstrate and practise non-restrictive and restrictive interventions that are consistent with a set of physiological principles

  • Explore a framework to help guide staff and the individuals in distress through a process of re-establishing the relationship.


The Safety Intervention programme incorporates trauma-informed and person-centred positive behaviour approaches, with a focus on prevention and de-escalation skills.

This involves:

Learning how to recognise escalating behaviours using the CPI Crisis Development ModelSM and how this can be used to identify appropriate responses

Understanding how the integrated experience and the behaviour of one person impacts the behaviour of others Identifying causes of behaviour and how outcomes can be positively impacted

Recognising the need to maintain professionalism through Rational Detachment in the face of escalating behaviours

Discovering how communication skills are important for building, strengthening, and maintaining rapport with the person in crisis.

Practising said communication skills at different levels of the Crisis Development ModelSM including listening with empathy and non-verbal, verbal, and paraverbal skills

Recognising and responding to Defensive Behaviours using the Verbal Escalation ContinuumSM while identifying steps to prepare for a difficult conversation

Physical intervention and positive handling CPI's, physical intervention and positive handling strategies are designed to maximise safety and minimise harm and involve an examination of environmental factors alongside the use of the Decision-Making MatrixSM to assess risk behaviour.

They are intended to be used as a last resort only. Disengagement skills are introduced for low, medium, and high-risk situation (such as grabbing clothing, grabbing hair and bites). Prior to learning Restrictive Interventions, key legal and professional considerations are explored. Holding Skills are taught with the following approach Identify touch zones that are permissible to contact during physical holding Identify potential risks that can arise from the use of physical holding and strategies for minimising risks Describe the Principles of Holding Demonstrate and practise holding and positive handling skills as a team approach to avoid injury to both staff and service users who engage in risk behaviours that compromise safety. These cover seated situations, standing, team interventions, and transitions from one area or room to another Demonstrate the application of the physiological principles to a range of risk behaviours that build on the previously learned non-verbal, verbal, and paraverbal responses Throughout, the message that holding skills are to be used only as a last resort is emphasised and reinforced

Course length 1 day
Learning pathway

Before enrolling onto this course, Safety Intervention Foundation Course must have been attended first.

Dates
  • 18th June 2026 09:30 - 16:30
  • 2nd July 2026 09:30 - 16:30
  • 10th september 2026 09:30 - 16:30
  • 24th September 2026 09:30 - 16:30
  • 1st October 2026 09:30 - 16:30 
  • 22nd October 2026 09:30 - 16:30 
  • 5th November 2026 09:30 - 16:30 
  • 12th November 2026 09:30 - 16:30 
  • 19th November 2026 09:30 - 16:30 
  • 3rd December 2026 09:30 - 16:30 

 

Venue Brunswick House
Strand Close
Hull
HU2 9DB
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How to apply

Hull City Council Staff

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