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Tidal Training Ltd Working in Collaboration With PMVA Associates

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Tidal Training endeavours to support you with courses that are bespoke for your organisation and clients. We are regularly contacted by clients enquiring as to whether we can support them and provide physical intervention training. Physical interventions is a specialist area that requires professional and highly qualified instructors with extensive experience in delivering fit for purpose and safe training. With regards to PMVA training, we understand your needs and we are aware of the importance that having the right PMVA (Prevention & Management of Violence and Aggression) training has and can contribute to an organisations overall strategy to reduce restrictive interventions, for this very reason we have been working closely with an organisation who specialise in this field and we are now partnering with this reputable provider to offer this service for your organisation.

PMVA Associates (PMVAA) is a CERTIFIED ORGANISATION, having met all the RRN Training Standards requirements through the Bild Association of Certified Training Scheme.

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PMVA Associates training focuses on the fundamental principles across health, social care and education settings covering both adult and children. These includes both proactive and reactive strategies.

Their trainers have extensive experience of working in the sector and delivering training, their senior trainers have also worked at senior level in major organisations and have been involved in related projects at national level. In addition, their specialist consultants and program leads hold specialist academic qualification in the field of violence reduction.

PMVA Training

Certified training that complies with the Restraint Reduction Network (RRN) Training Standards became a requirement of NHS commissioned services for people with learning disability, autism or mental health condition in April 2020. The Care Quality Commission will expect services across health and social care to have certified training that complies with these Standards from April 2021.

Course Content

Definition, Causation and forms of Challenging behaviour

Trauma, PBS

Identification & Preventative Strategies

Public Health Approach, Attitude & Behaviour, De-escalation, Effective Communication

Types of Restrictive Interventions

Forms of restraint defined

The Law and Use of Restrictive Interventions

Understanding Types of Restraint, Principles of Reasonable Force, least restrictive, Duty of Care & Duty of Candour

Identifying and preventing restraint related risk

Impact of Restraint (Physical & Non- Physical) Restraint and Injuries)

Restrictive intervention Post incident procedures

Recording, Reporting & Debriefing

Physical Skills

Primary – Standing and guiding Procedures
Secondary – Standing Seated holds and Procedures
Tertiary – range of medium-high risk procedures, supine, prone and side lying (IM) restraint techniques

Service Specific Content

Understanding the use of Seclusion and long-Term Segregation

Procedural Safeguards (MHA Code Of Practice, 2015)
Criteria for Seclusion & LTS
Least restrictive procedures (hierarchy of options) for seclusion entry and review

Physical Skills