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Self harm, suicide awareness and ligature procedures 6hrs
SSAL01 | Manager induction standard 5/7 HSC226 and HSC374 respectively
This one day course is specific to specialist support staff working within the mental health and crisis intervention sectors where self harm and suicide may be present or where awareness of its potential is required. The aim is to improve and develop for learners an effective knowledge base to understand self harm and suicide and to provide core skills to enable, reduce, assess and manage potential and actual incidents. This should enable workers to be confident and subsequently safe in their practice.
The course also explores ligatures, and will enable staff to have the skills to assess their work environment for potential ligatures. Including carrying out an initial assessment, subsequent ongoing risk management, staff are then advised in the processes involved in safe and appropriate practices should a service user be at risk of ligating.