To implement successful Breakaway skills in line with The General Services Association (GSA) curriculum, whereby the GSA develop and disseminate best practice in the management of violence and aggression, primarily in Health, Social Care and Educational settings.
To implement conflict resolution strategies alongside Breakaway techniques, which allow the member of staff to move away or escape from a potentially threatening situation.
If there is physical contact, Breakaway techniques are a physical skill to separate or disengage from the threatening behaviour.
This course is delivered in a spacious room, and combines a mix of theory and primarily practical based skills. This course is assessed by the successful application of the skills, and participation of 80% of the course.
This course will provide a Certificate for Training in Breakaway Techniques.
All staff that have face to face contact with patients/individuals, in particular staff that are at risk of physical harm from this contact.
All staff will need to complete a pre-training health screen questionnaire, this can be found in your pre course email and needs to be completed and returned to us before your training course.
Livewell Southwest Academy can also create this course for you on arrangement at one of their locations.