Delegates will be informed of the venue after they have registered and a place on the training has been confirmed. Places will only be confirmed when you have paid your admin fee. There are a limited number of people we take for this training and very few places are available for health and safety reasons. It is advisable to book your training and pay quickly, and, well in advance to avoid disappointment. Book your training

Anyone who works in a clinical setting such as a Mental Health setting including forensic, low, medium, high secure services, CAMHS, Acute care settings, Elderly, Care Homes and or with individuals with a Learning Disability and Challenging Behaviour, and/or work within a violent or aggressive work environment as defined by Institute of Conflict Management (ICM).

We require the satisfactory completion of a Health Questionnaire and confirmation of your fitness. This course is only for those who currently hold a PMVA(Prevention and Management of Violence Certificate) that is about to expire and is still active. We do not train anyone whose certificate is already expired for a one-day course. We advise that you enrol for the three(3) days course if you have a certificate that has recently expired even for one day. If in doubt please call the office.

This is a highly specialist course that is supported by the Institute of Conflict Management (ICM) and BILD(British Institute of Learning Disabilities). Our trainers are highly skilled in multifaceted self-defence techniques, and the course is highly practical as its pragmatism is tested before certificates are issued.   This is to ensure a it can protect you at work. It is not a fairy tale, make-belief, venture and it has had 100% success rates in protecting staff with no injuries recorded. The safety of the clients we care for and the safety of staff who care for the clients is paramount. Simply put, this course does what it promises to do.

AM: Theory

• Introduction to Physical Restraints. This includes the historical context of control and restraints and charts this till the present day. It looks at what has changed, why it has changed, and what is utilized now. It looks at differentiating physical restraints from a common struggle. It presents the emotional issues with physical restraints and Death related incidents during physical restraints and ways to avoid them. It looks into your legal rights and ways of avoiding legal pitfalls such as corporate manslaughter.
• The use of self-defense in the workplace (Personal safety). This includes the following: Laws relating to the use of force at work, The Duty of Care, PMVA as Manual Handling(Health and Safety at Work), Reflective Practice for All.
• Ethics- Duty of Beneficence, Duty of Benevolence, Duty of Veracity, Duty of Non-malfeasance vs Duty of Autonomy

PM: Breakaway Techniques

• The five main breakaway techniques that save lives.
• Issues surrounding breakaways.
• The Law and reasonable force.
• Scenarios needing Breakaways(Including Ground strangulation)

• Avoiding Conflict and confrontation
• De-escalation Techniques
• A basic introduction to escorting a client (The guide).
• Basic introduction and/or refresher to Figure of 4 holds.
• Taking a Client, Customer, and/or patient to the chair.
• Disembarking from taking to the chair safely.
• Real fight or violent situation approach 1. (Containing the assailant with a minimum of two staff in a working environment).
• Basic introduction -Taking the assailant to the floor (Minimum of two staff, a maximum of three).