Contemporary Practice in Dementia Leadership

Course Duration:

9.30am - 4.30pm

Target Audience:

All staff, volunteers, family carers, direct employers and their PA’s working with people with Dementia

Aim:

This course is aimed at managers who are committed to taking a thoughtful approach to the development of their services. It covers the importance of capable environments and how these can support individuals living with dementia to continue to contribute to their communities and enhance quality of life and relationships throughout their entire dementia journey. The course will also explore the concept of compassionate leadership and how this can be applied to the practice environment, supporting increased staff resilience, competence, wellbeing, and the maintenance of positive, enabling, and capable environments.

Learning Outcomes:

• Identify the characteristics of a capable environment within dementia services.
• Give examples of processes to support staff wellbeing and resilience at all levels of a service.
• Identify the characteristics and positive benefits of compassionate leadership.
• Describe how practice leadership can support increased competence across staff teams.
• Describe how relevant legislation and guidance support development of a positive and enabling service culture.