We provide full 3 days of PMVA training for staff working in a challenging environment where physical intervention is required.
This training will help to reduce the risks of violence and aggression by developing staff knowledge, skills as well as approaches, including minimizing potential harmful injuries and how to effectively manage challenging presentations.
This course demonstrates techniques that will help you continue to defuse and manage potential conflict, safely, within a variety of settings
Empower Your Staff with Expert PMVA Training and Techniques
Following the principles of the current NICE guidelines 2015 our training is based on a person centred approach to conflict and difficult behaviour using our 6-Stage Target Model of proactive and responsive service delivery and emphasising the use of physical intervention and restraint as a last resort. The training meets NHS protect standards in conflict resolution and physical intervention.
What does PMVA Prevention and Management of Violence and Aggression Training Course cover?
This course explore the six stages of managing aggression and challenging behaviour, from understanding the causes of and reducing challenging behaviour, de-escalating aggressive behaviour, physical and non-physical defensive strategies, guiding techniques and control & restraint /safer-holding techniques.
PMVA three day course
Over the first two days the course explores the causes of challenging behaviour within the required setting and pro-active strategies for reducing behaviours, de-escalation strategies for managing a situation once it has escalated, dynamic risk assessment principles to help staff recognise the appropriate course of action and then the law regarding physical intervention.
It then teaches staff physical techniques including disengagement, defence techniques, basic guiding and holding/restraint techniques for varying risk levels and situations.
On day three, advanced techniques that are taught include relocating from the floor, floor holds and higher risk standing restraints.
The program delivered consists of conflict management, law, and legislation, de-escalation skills, models of conflict, personal safety, and safer holding in line with current NICE and DOH guidelines.
The Level 2 Certificate in the Delivery of Prevention and Management of Aggression (PMA) is joint venture by Elite Academy Norwich and the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital (NNUH)
Who the course is suitable for:
All settings, both high and low risk
Social care services
Adult education settings
Children's homes and education settings
NHS and CQC-regulated settings
Temporary, Agency, and permanent staff
Duration:
Initial training - 3 days, subject to Training Needs Analysis (TNA)
Who is this for:
This course is for NHS and Healthcare workers, or those wishing to move into the Health and Social Care field. For security staff, please see our PMVA Refresher for Healthcare Security Officers course.
