Health Improvement

Approaching Sensitive Conversations (Infant Feeding)

Aim:

• Improve staff confidence in approaching sensitive conversations.
• Increase staff knowledge and communication skills to enable open and meaningful conversations with women, relatives and staff about infant feeding.

Target Audience:

NHS Lanarkshire Maternity, health visiting and family nurse staff.

Duration:

Full day 09.30am – 16:30pm plus 1 hour follow up session approx. 1 month later

Delivery Method:

Face-to-Face

Contact

Wgh.maternity@lanarkshire.scot.nhs.uk

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Solihull Approach Foundation Level Training

Aim:

To support those working with families to understand the Solihull approach and to use it in practice.

Learning Objectives:

Participants will:

• Network with colleagues from other settings.
• Learn about the impact of the Solihull Approach and how it has developed.
• Learn about infant mental health, implications for emotional health & baby brain development.
• Explore the theoretical underpinning of the Solihull Approach with a focus on reciprocity and behaviour management.
• Familiarise themselves with the content of the Solihull Approach resource pack.
• Prepare for using the Solihull Approach between day 1 and 2 of training.
• Be supported to link practice & observations to the Solihull Approach theoretical model.
• Further explore the relationship between containment, reciprocity and behaviour management.
• Understand that the Solihull Approach has a growing evidence base that is growing & be signposted to the practitioner’s website.
• Facilitated in their thinking about the use of the Solihull Approach in their work, put theory into practice, develop services & consider the broad range of areas where Solihull Approach is relevant.
• Incorporate learning into practice.
• Discuss, reflect & evaluate training.

Target Audience:

Anyone working with parents/carers of young children and families.

Duration:

Two full days.

Delivery Method:

Via Teams.

Contact

EarlyYearsTraining@lanarkshire.scot.nhs.uk

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Child Poverty Health and Wellbeing

Aim:

This module aims to raise your awareness of child poverty in Scotland and how poverty can impact on children and young people’s health and wellbeing.  The module will look at causes of child poverty, how it is measured and you will spend time considering your role in tackling child poverty.

Learning Objectives:

By the end of this module you will be able to:

• Describe what child poverty is and what causes it
• Outline how child poverty is defined and measured in Scotland
• Explain how poverty impacts children and young people’s health and wellbeing
• Reflect on your role in reducing the impact of child poverty

Target Audience:

This resource will be particularly relevant to individuals working across health, social care, education, the public sector and people who are in contact with children and families at work.

Duration:

The module includes five sections and should take around 2.5 hours to complete.

Delivery Method:

Health Scotland Virtual Learning Environment (VLE)

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Breastfeeding Basics

Aim:

This module will help healthcare and early years staff and other partners to develop their knowledge of breastfeeding: enabling them to provide basic information and support for breastfeeding mothers.

Learning Objectives:

By the end of this module you will be able to:

• Outline the Scottish breastfeeding policy context.

• Explain why breastfeeding is the best feeding method.

• Explain how lactation works .

• Assess the effectiveness of a breastfeed.

• Teach a mother how to position and attach her baby for feeding

Target Audience:

Midwifery; Midwife; Nursing; Child health nurse; Family nurse; Family nurse supervisor; General practice nurse; Health Visitor.

Duration:

90 miniutes

Delivery Method:

Scottish Government breastfeeding modules and resources on TURAS Includes 5 modules on Breastfeeding/Infant Feeding and Introduction of Solids.

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Preventing Unintentional Injuries in Early Years

Aim:

To explore what unintentional injuries are, their causes and effects and how to prevent these injuries.

Learning Objectives:

By the end of this module you should be able to:

• define unintentional injuries and the scale of the problem for children in Scotland
• be aware of relevant legislation and policies and consider how they could be applied in practice
• identify the risk factors which predispose children to unintentional injury throughout childhood development
• identify actions to prevent unintentional injuries
• reflect on your own practice.

Target Audience:

This module is for all adults including family, those who have a professional, and voluntary relationships with early years, children and families across Scotland.

Duration:

30/40 minutes.

Delivery Method:

Health Scotland E-Module

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Infant and Child feeding/Breastfeeding 

Aim:

To support learning and understanding around Breastfeeding.

Learning Objectives:

Module 1 – Breastfeeding basics

This module will help to develop knowledge of breastfeeding:  enabling staff to provide basic information and support for breastfeeding mothers.

Target Audience: Healthcare and early year’s staff and other partners.

Module 2 – Breastfeeding challenges for mothers

This module will give practitioners more in depth knowledge to enable them to support effective feeding and to manage common breastfeeding challenges

Target Audience: Support staff may access this information but management of feeding issues lies primarily with NMC registrants, medical staff and Registered Dieticians.

Module 3 – Babies with breastfeeding challenges

This module will give practitioners more in depth skills and knowledge to enable them to support mothers to effectively breastfeed when their infants have additional challenges.

Target Audience: Support staff may access this information but management of feeding issues lies primarily with NMC registrants, medical staff and Registered Dietitians. 

Module 4 – Infant formula milk feeding

This module will enable staff to support families to formula feed or mix feed safely and access independent information on infant formula marketed in the UK.

Target Audience: NHS practitioners and a wide range of early year’s practitioners and support staff.

Module 5 – Setting the Table: enabling infants and young children to eat well

This module will enable staff to support families and to advice on the introduction of weaning foods 6-12 months and how to ensure that children aged 1-4 years continue to eat well. The module supports the Health Scotland “Setting the Table” resource.

Target Audience: NHS practitioners and a wide range of early years practitioners and support staff.

Delivery Method:

Access via Turas.

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