Training PHB staff
Up to Children's continuing care - challenges

Hi,
I know we have discussed this before but need to pick your brains again sorry. Many of our children have PHB's the community nurses are expected to train staff employed by parents but this can be an issue as some packages have a high staff turnover. I have just spoken with my adult colleagues and they expect existing staff to cascade train new members of the team. I would be grateful if you could let you know your thoughts regarding the safety and legality of this
Thanks


Hi
In our area the PHB lead sign post carer to the online skills for life training for as this covers all the mandatory training and however we are a bit stuck in regards to more specific training as the community services are not able to provide this training to outside agencies / of privately employed carers. I would appreciate if anyone on this forum can advise what is happening in other areas.
Thanks Surrita

HI, We've now had to ask private companies to supply / provide this - they are employing nurses to specifically train and sign off competencies. This cost is included within the PHB. We too use various on line training providers and local colleges but of course they are unable to provide that additional specialism that our CYP need.
Be interesting to see how this develops as medical advances continue at a pace.


Hi
We are having the same issue here. We have a number of third party agencies who are managing the PHB on parents' behalf and they are using the skills for life online training and for specific training like paediatric life support, tracheostomy care and things like this they are commissioning private organisations to provide this. Our community services have said they do not have the capacity to do so.

Hi May I pick your brains on Children Continuing Care and children with severe challenging behaviour who are in residential placements.
Regarding children with mental health issues and challenging behaviour. We are getting a number of these children referred for continuing care assessments.
We use CHAAT tool for allocating care packages and this tool does not take into account the psychological needs of the child nor does it take into account any challenging behaviour.
If anyone has a good resource allocation tool to share, it would be much appreciated.
Thank you