Training

School Health training

The School Health Service is offering schools a range of free online training and resources to support you in meeting the requirements of your pupils with additional health needs. It is suitable for anyone who comes into contact with children and young people up to the age of 25. These include the important health topics such as anaphylaxis, epilepsy, asthma and diabetes.

To enable the training to be delivered at a time that suits you, the course is delivered online. The training can either be individual or as a staff group dependent on the number of staff needing training and also the number of pupils in the school with an additional health need.

Courses includes:

• administration of medicine in schools
• understanding asthma (also see Preventable. A short film about asthma - YouTube)
• understanding anaphylaxis
• understanding diabetes
• understanding epilepsy
• food hygiene and safety
• first aid essentials
• a range of safeguarding training modules.

Participation will contribute as robust evidence for staff training. Your school may wish to include this as evidence in their online School Health Check review to attain Healthy Schools Status.

To register your interest and gain a place/s please contact the School Health Service at kchft.schoolhealthplan@nhs.net.

Children’s Integrated Therapy and Equipment Service training

To support schools access training at a time that suits them, we have created a large number of training films on our website, from bite sized films (two to 15 minutes) to longer workshops (20 to 90 minutes). These include:

• Creating an inclusive classroom - CITES video tour - creating an inclusive environment in school (vimeo.com)
• Speech disorder
• Stammering (dysfluency)
• Selective mutism
• Visual communication including communication books and colourful semantics - Language
• Movement and co-ordination - Motor skills
• Sensory Circuits - Sensory processing
• Zones of regulation - Autism
• Core stability exercises - Hypermobility

Following requests from schools, we have also now recorded a selection of our most popular Speech and Language training sessions.

To support transition to Early Years we have brought together a selection of recommended films into one place on our website.

Schools in East Sussex can also book in for a Speech and Language consultation - face to face time with a Speech and Language Therapy Assistant (SLTA) to talk about specific children, talk about specific areas or ask a SLTA to model activity for you. For further information please contact our Therapy One Point on 0300 123 2650
kentchft.citesonepoint@nhs.net.