Personal Care Needs

What the course covers:

• Definition of personal care and personal care tasks
• Considerations when delivering personal care: gender and preference, cultural and religious needs, sensory needs and aids, adaptations and mobility
• Considering emotional and psychological needs
• A task centred approach
• Problems with providing personal care using a task centred approach
• How to move to a more person centred approach
• The advantages and disadvantages of task and person centred approaches
• Encouraging participation and recognising the service user’s strengths and abilities
• Treating service users with dignity and respect
• Practical activity: feeding one another to gain experience of what it is like to receive personal care
• Practical issues to consider
• What to do when tasks become difficult
• Tips for: bathing, helping someone use the toilet, oral care, helping someone to dress
• Pressure area care: contributing factors and prevention of pressure ulcers

How this course can be completed:

• Classroom: this course can be completed as a half-day course in a classroom environment, which lasts approximately 2.5 learning hours.
• Webinar: this course can be completed as a webinar that lasts approximately 2 learning hours.

How to book on to a course:

      Creative Support staff – You can find dates for this course on our webinar rota. To book on to a course, please complete an
      application form

      Participants from other organisations – Please complete this application form or contact James Perkins at:       

      james.perkins@creativesupport.co.uk // 07972 735 378

How to request a course for your service:

To request an additional course for your service, please complete the Extra Training Request Form. This is an online form. Once submitted, this will be sent to our training coordinators who will be in touch with more information.