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COURSES OF SHARED INTEREST

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12 May, 2023
Dee Bell, RM, IBCLC, shares expert insights on tongue-tie, its impact on breastfeeding, and management tips for parents and caregivers.
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by Diana Warren 02 May, 2023
Diana Warren's module offers in-depth knowledge on tongue-tie, highlighting diagnosis, effects, and care strategies for those impacted.


MANDATORY TRAINING


CSTF Mandatory + Statutory Training (Classroom Training) by the Health and Safety Group


We employ more than 40 trainers located throughout the UK delivering classroom training courses. Each trainer is professionally trained and experienced to provide you with services that delivers informative and enjoyable training but more importantly making the subject matter easy to understand. We also keep the content of classroom content fresh and lively to deliver a better knowledge retention rate.

https://www.healthandsafetygroup.com/p/mandatory-statutory-training-

skills-for-health

 

CSTF Mandatory + Statutory Training (Online Training) by the Health and Safety Group


The Core Skills Training Framework (CSTF) was developed by Skills for Health to standardise mandatory & statutory training. It also creates a benchmark of core skills that nurses, and healthcare staff can achieve. All our modules are

easy to navigate through at your own pace and a certificate of completion is immediately available to download on completion of the course. You can also access our great range of e-learning training courses at:

https://www.hsg-elearning.co.uk/


Social Care Online Training


www.social-care.tv/courses/course-details/

Ever-evolving, our platform is consistently updated, embracing new advances in technology and customer feedback and requirements. This, alongside our finely honed in-house research and production department and gold standard customer support keeps Social Care TV at the forefront of training provision. Over 71 courses are available, and include:

  • Consent
  • Fire Safety
  • COSHH
  • Diversity, Equality and Inclusion
  • Stress
  • Principles of care and confidentiality
  • Safeguarding Adults and Children
  • Record Keeping
  • Risk Assessment
  • Moving and Handling
  • Infection Prevention and Control
  • Autism and Learning Disability


Mandatory Core Skills E-learning Bundle


The Mandatory Core Skills Training Framework eLearning Bundle allows employers to recognise training to a standard and reduce duplication of training. This eLearning Bundle is delivered by Skills for Health, the developers of the Core Skills Training Framework. The following eLearning courses are available as part of the bundle:

  • Conflict Resolution
  • Equality, Diversity and Human Rights
  • Fire Safety
  • Health, Safety and Welfare
  • Infection Prevention and Control - Level 1 - Non-Clinical
  • Infection Prevention and Control - Level 2 - Clinical
  • Information Governance and Data Security
  • Moving and Handling - Level 1
  • Moving and Handling - Level 2 - Patient
  • Preventing Radicalisation
  • Resuscitation - Level 1 - Basic Life Support
  • Resuscitation - Level 2 - Adult Basic Life Support
  • Resuscitation - Level 2 - Paediatric Basic Life Support
  • Safeguarding Adults - Level 1
  • Safeguarding Adults - Level 2
  • Safeguarding Adults - Level 3Safeguarding Children - Level 1
  • Safeguarding Children - Level 2
  • Safeguarding Children - Level 3

https://www.skillsplatform.org/courses/2313-mandatory-core-skills-

elearning-bundle?wl=sfh


COURSES OF SHARED INTEREST


E-Learning for Health


E-learning for healthcare was formed in April 2007 to deliver a range of programmes, after a successful pilot with the Radiology-Integrated Training Initiative (R-ITI) which generated a model for the future delivery of generic and professional healthcare training.

In 2013, elfh transitioned across to Health Education England and continues to work in partnership to develop E-learning programmes to support the health and care workforce.

Over 400 e-learning courses to choose from, examples include:

  • Learning Disability and autism
  • Maternal health and the newborn
  • Long covid
  • Safeguarding
  • Breastmilk provision for pre-term and sick neonates
  • Communication skills
  • Coronavirus
  • Domestic Abuse awareness

https://www.e-lfh.org.uk/programs


The Oliver McGowan Mandatory Training on Learning Disability & Autism.


The training is named after Oliver McGowan. Oliver was a young man whose death shone a light on the need for health and social care staff to have better skills, knowledge and understanding of the needs for autistic

people and people with a learning disability.  The training was developed as a result of Right to be Heard the

Government’s response to the consultation on mandatory training on learning disability and autism for health and social care staff.

https://www.e-lfh.org.uk/programmes/the-oliver-mcgowan-mandatory-training-on-learning-disability-and-autism/


The Mandatory Training Group


Our statutory and mandatory training courses have been developed to meet the requirements of regulatory bodies such as CQC and HSE.

Courses include:

  • Health and Safety
  • Fire Safety
  • Risk assessment
  • Equality and Diversity
  • Safeguarding

https://www.mandatorytraining.co.uk/pages/uk-accredited-statutory-

and-mandatory-training-providers/


Allergies, Reflux and Colic course by Shel Banks (IBCLC)


6.25 CERPS

This course is for those working with families with babies who are suffering from colic or reflux, and who are showing signs of lactose intolerance, cows’ milk protein allergy and other food allergies and intolerances. Reflux and cow’s milk allergy is often misdiagnosed and misunderstood. We want to give you the key information you need to know to better support the families you are working with. With our online infant allergies, reflux, and colic training, you have the benefit of completing the course in your own time, at home, on the go, day, or night.

Info: https://babyem.co.uk/reflux/

Booking: https://babyem.thrivecart.com/babyem-courses-allergies/?affiliate=shelbanks

 

Queer Birth Club ‘Competency in Birth and Beyond’ by AJ Silver


Our workshop is the only one of its kind in the UK; recently it has been made mandatory education for several Doula schools and Hypnobirthing practitioners training courses. It has been designed as a safe and open environment where you will learn and discuss a vast array of topics from the basics of inclusive language to much more complex topics such as the systematic and personal oppressions LGBT+ parents experience in their

journey. Our aim is that at the end of this workshop, you will understand your place and purpose as an ally to LGBT+ parents and leave confident and motivated to continue the path of creating more visibility and accessibility for the

community.

https://mailchi.mp/21045decdb3a/the-queer-birth-club-landing-page

 


iLactation

Convenient, affordable online continuing education for lactation consultants, physicians, midwives and health visitors

Breastfeeding Conference iLactation


Our online conferences offer a convenient, carbon neutral and economical way to access presentations by the top international speakers in the field of breastfeeding and human lactation, and to receive continuing education credits. We seek out current research and international knowledge and share it through our online conferences, where we are better able to reach health professionals around the globe than face-to-face conferences. iLactation’s conferences are online twice a year, accessible from your own computer or mobile device. Top international speakers all online for a full 3 months. No travel, no jetlag, no time off work needed!

Website is www.iLactation.com

Email is info@iLactation.com

https://ilactation.com/conferences/free-presentations/


Aseptic Non-Touch Technique-E-Learning The Official ANTT E-Learning Course


ANTT is the de-facto NHS and international standard for aseptic technique. This course introduces and provides an overview of the ANTT Practice Framework, providing the necessary information to support best clinical practice. The course is interactive and demonstrates ANTT principles applied to Standard-ANTT and Surgical-ANTT. An assessment is provided at the end of the course along with a certificate of completion.

Available at www.antt-training.com. To access the course, please visit the ‘Online Store’.

 

LCGB OWL (Ongoing Web Learning)


Through LCGB (Lactation consultants of Great Britain) there is also free access to a learning platform for both members & non-members; some courses do incur a fee-see website for details.

https://lcgb.org/lcgb-owl/

  • A history of Positioning and Attachment with Nancy Mohrbacher
  • Differential Diagnosis by Christina Smillie
  • Annual conference

 

Breastfeeding Culture Safety-Online Course for Practitioners


This course will help to promote self-awareness, and skills of those who work both directly and indirectly with Black, Asian, and Ethnic minorities. The aim of this Breastfeeding Cultural Safety course is to develop understanding and promote positive relationships between breastfeeding practitioners and families from the Black, Asian and Ethnic Minorities.

Learn more and/or book onto the course here:

https://www.121doula.co.uk/product/breastfeeding-culture-safety-online-

course-for-practitioners/


Bias in Healthcare Awareness Workshop


There is a culture of systemic racism and bias practices that affect the day to day living for people who are not white, heterosexual, and able bodied.

Aims of the workshop:

  • Introduction to bias and what it is.
  • Learn about bias and micro aggressions in a safe place.
  • Its effect on the people around us.
  • How it affects our actions and words.
  • Raising things into consciousness.

If you would like more information, feel free to get in touch, or to register your interest in the workshop please send an email to vanishavirgo@me.com.

 

MICROBIOME COURSES by Dr Toni Harman & Alex Wakeford


Offers accredited CERP-approved online courses that explain the microscopic events happening during physiological birth and breastfeeding. The courses have been created by the filmmakers behind the award-winning documentary MICROBIRTH. All the courses are self-guided, go-at-your-own-pace and are easy-to-understand. Each course features several top University professors, scientists, and other leading experts – ensuring the information is scientifically accurate and up to date. Link to the website: https://microbirth.teachable.com/

For 25% discount use this PROMO CODE on the checkout page: 25OFF. The price will then be reduced by 25%.

 

 

Lactation and Infant Feeding Courses for Healthcare Professionals (by Sarah Oakley)


Sarah Oakley Registered Nurse , Registered Health Visitor, International Board-Certified Lactation Consultant and Tongue-tie Practitioner provides regular study days in Cambridgeshire and will travel to provide training too. Face to face study days on tongue-tie and infant feeding available for individuals or organisations including NHS groups. Please see this link for details: http://sarahoakleylactation.co.uk/training-courses/


Alison Hazelbaker:


https://www.ourbirthjourney.com/courses

  • Maxillary Lip Tie: Fact or Fiction?
  • To clip or not to clip: The evidence.
  • Tongue-Tie: A journey from past to future

https://hazelbakerinstitute.com/hazelbaker-lactation-institute/education-

catalog/

  • Using the Assessment tool for lingual frenulum function
  • Classifying infant sucking problems
  • Faux tie: When is a tongue-tie not a tongue-tie?-Assessment and treatment of tongue-tie and lip-tie: Cognitive errors, ethics and differential diagnosis
  • Torticollis: Causes, impact on breastfeeding, and solutions
  • Plagiocephaly: Causes, impact on breastfeeding and solutions
  • Anatomy of infant suck
  • Physiology of infant suck
  • 7 strategies for resolving infant sucking problems when bodywork is inaccessible


Lactation Education Resources:


Catherine Watson-Genna

https://www.lactationtraining.com/cathy-watson-genna

  • Comprehensive review of infant suck
  • Full 75 CERP Recertification bundle


Tethered Oral Tissue: Trends and Truths E-course


http://lacted.org/shop/crs-tethered-oral-tissue/fbclid=IwAR1D_KqlXLXQz96G1ZAF2MhCzoSWyeb90I7erWIGpnGEi9bP7daTN6UPYU

This 1-hour webinar reviews the anatomy of infant oral frenula, reviews the research evidence for division of oral frenula, and explores the impact of misinformation on tongue tie release.

  • Infant oral anatomy
  • Demographics and rates of frenotomy
  • Classification of tongue ties
  • Tools for evaluating tongue ties
  • Evidence regarding posterior tongue ties, and its association with other pathology
  • Management of ankyloglossia
  • Contraindications to frenotomy


GOLD Lactation Online Conferences


Multiple conferences offered over the course of the year including Tongue-Tie, Perinatal mental health, Midwifery and

Neonatal. https://www.goldlactation.com/

Annual Events:

  1. GOLD Midwifery Online Conference
  2. GOLD Lactation Online Conference
  3. GOLD Neonatal Online Conference
  4. GOLD Tongue Tie Online Conference


ATP members can also take advantage of all the benefits of group registration for the annual tongue-tie conference. Members booking through ATP receive an exclusive discount, plus early-bird savings, and advance notice of the

event. When such events arise a member of the ATP committee will email all members, so they are fully aware and updated.


GOLD Learning


Come together with over 4000 IBCLCs, Lactation Consultants, Physicians, Nurses, Midwives, Doulas, Dietitians, Speech Pathologists, Breastfeeding Volunteers, Academics, Students & more from 90 Countries for the signature event in breastfeeding education at GOLD Lactation Online Learning. Enjoy all the conveniences of online learning and accredited breastfeeding education as well as access to presentations for 12+ Weeks.

https://www.goldlearning.com/


Infant Feeding and Tongue-tie Masterclasses by Dee Bell, RM, IBCLC and Specialist Tongue-tie Practitioner

Dee teaches regular Masterclasses on ‘Understanding Tongue-tie’, Managing slow weight gain and low milk supply, the aetiology of low milk supply and the practicalities of inducing lactation. 

Dee is an experienced lecturer and is available to teach bespoke live (or online) sessions for private organisation and NHS groups. For more information please contact us at The Infant Feeding Academy - info@theinfantfeedingacademy.co.uk

20% discount for all members of the ATP, please get in touch if you would like to book info@theinfantfeedingacademy.co.uk

  • ‘An Introduction to Understanding Tongue-tie’ replay available to access immediately - online 
  • ‘Managing Slow Weight Gain and Low Milk Supply’ – Live on May 25th @7 pm GMT - £57 (This masterclass with be available on replay after the event)
  • Low Milk Supply: Too little too late? By Dee Bell and Dr Sharon Silberstein - Live on July 13th @7 pm GMT - Early Bird £47 (This masterclass with be available on replay after the event)
  • Induced Lactation By Dee Bell and Dr Sharon Silberstein - Live on November 16th @7 pm GMT - Early Bird £47 (This masterclass with be available on replay after the event)


Tongue-Tie Courses

(Frenulotomy Competency Training)


Please refer to: https://www.tongue-tie.org.uk/tongue-tie-training-faqs/ page link for further details


Russell Hall Hospital, Dudley work with Wolverhampton university to deliver and train those planning to divide in the NHS and who have agreement from their managers.

Russells Hall Hospital, Dudley Contact: N.Bowen@wlv.ac.uk  01902 518862


University of Hull

Frenulotomy CPD module level 7

https://www.hull.ac.uk/study/cpd/modules/frenulotomy

Please contact module leader Louise Lewis 01482 463103


Southampton General Hospital

Southampton General Hospital Contact Erin Winteridge

02381 206677 or Fax: 02381 204750

tonguetietraining@uhs.nhs.uk


Health Professional Training in frenulotomy – by Dee Bell RM, IBCLC and Specialist Tongue-tie Practitioner

Dee is able to train registered health care professionals to perform frenulotomy (tongue-tie release procedure), if they have completed an accredited Infant Feeding program and theoretical study around infant tongue-tie. Accredited training in both these areas is available at The Infant Feeding Academy, but accredited training with other organisations is also acceptable. Please get in touch if you are not sure.

More information is available at www.theinfantfeedingacademy.co.uk or contact us on info@theinfantfeedingacademy.co.uk


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