Dates
Course details
- Time: 8:45am arrival for tea/coffee and registration. 9.00am-3pm
- Venue: Microsoft Teams
- Trainer: Hoarding Disorders UK
- Targeted services: Business & Transformation, Older People, Community Wellbeing, Quality Standards, Disability Team, Vulnerable People Team, Family Support & Intervention, Youth Justice Service, Children Looked After, Commissioned Services (PIVs)
- Target group: Anyone working with Adults wishing to gain a greater understanding Hoarding
Course aims and objectives
Hoarding Awareness Training – Stage 1 will cover 3 key areas:
Understanding Hoarding
- Knowledge of some history of hoarding
- Understand what hoarding disorder and chronic disorganisation are, and the difference between those and extreme clutter
- Be able to identify who the disorder can affect
- Understand many contributing factors and triggers that are present in cases of hoarding disorder, chronic disorganization, and extreme clutter and how these can be used to decide on best ways to help
- Understand and be able to spot the common characteristics of hoarding to provide the most appropriate support for the individual
- Understand the impact of hoarding.
How to help
- Understand what the Clutter Image Ratings are and how they can be used for multi-agency working, reporting, and getting through the door
- Establish who is in your local area who can help through multi-agency working
- Be able to declutter with someone and / or suggest tips to do that
- Understand the importance of the client’s motivation and help them to find it
- Recognise the importance of appropriate outlets for possessions
- Understand the importance of support groups and how they help
- Be able to work more effectively with clients after learning things to do and not to do.
Further knowledge
- Understand the main legislation and how it can be applied – The Care Act, The Mental Capacity Act and Environmental Health
- Be able to focus on harm reduction from the knowledge of safety as a priority
- Understand what tools and techniques can be applied in terms of the HOMES assessment, therapeutic help, Motivational Interviewing, change, social prescribing, empowerment, relationship building and trust and the Ice breaker form
- Bring focus to your own emotional resilience and ensure you are using strategies to make this a priority.
For further information, or if you have booked a place on the course and have not received notification to attend please contact the Workforce Development & Learning Administrative Team. Please do not turn up to any course unless you have received notification of your place as the event may be fully booked.