Ligature Knife Training - £400 for up to 12 candidates (4 hour course)

The main learning objectives of the course are as follows:

1. To know what self-harm and suicide are, and who they effect
2. To know what causes  people to self-harm
3. What is shock and what does it look like?
4. To be aware of the myths around self-harm and suicide
5. To know what can be done to help and support people who self-harm and/or want to commit suicide
6. To know how to manage the impact of self-harm and suicide as an individual and as a care environment
7. To be aware of useful interventions for working with people who self-harm, and promoting empowerment
8. To understand the ligature risk assessment
9. To be able to identify potential ligatures
10. To be able to identify ligature points
11. To know how to implement control measures
12. To understand the use of the ligature knife – demonstration and practical exercise
13. To understand how to manage the ligatured person
14. To be aware of the personal risk assessment
15. To be aware of the single rescuer and team approaches
16. To know how to handle the situation post-ligature

This highly practical ligature training course is aimed at those working in environments where incidents involving ligatures are a foreseeable risk, including;

• those working in the prison or probations services,
• those working in refuges,
• those who support people with complex needs and who may have issues such as physical and mental health, child welfare, family and relationship breakdown, offending behaviour, historic abuse, bereavement, substance misuse, sexual exploitation, domestic violence, childhood trauma and/or self-harm,
• those who work with young people in residential care,
• those who work in other higher risk environments
• those who work for the NHS.