Aims:
To enable staff to reflect on the importance of food to those in their care and also to provide sound information and effective strategies for the provision of healthy eating in care homes.
This course covers:
- Government guidelines for healthy eating
- Swallowing problems in the older person
- The provision of good nutrition to residents with dementia
- Special diets
- Advice on reducing saturated fat/sugar and increasing vegetables and fruit
- How to implement these changes into your menu planning and purchasing
Facilitator: Chris Kinnersley – CK Food Safety Consultancy
Dates and locations:
- 7 December 2011 Shrewsbury – Training & Development Centre
- 25 April 2012 Shrewsbury – Wildlife Trust
All sessions take place from 1.30pm to 4.30pm
Appropriate for: Owners, managers, chefs and other staff of care homes who have responsibility for the nutritional health of older people
Contributes to underpinning knowledge for Qualification Credit Framework (QCF), Knowledge and Skills Framework (KSF) and Continuing Professional Development CPD.
Enquiries/application forms to:
Nicola Jessop, Joint Training Team, Shropshire Council, Bourne House, Radbrook Complex, Shrewsbury, SY3 9BL (Tel 01743 254 734)
COST – Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin
£20 Voluntary sector
£25 Independent, Housing, Acute Hospital, Shropshire Council (not in Assessment & Eligibility) and T&W Council
£60 Out of county organisations
No charge (under review) – Service users, family carers and unpaid volunteers living in Shropshire can attend Joint Training courses free of charge.
Staff from Shropshire Council Assessment & Eligibility Group, *Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust and *South Staffs and Shropshire NHS Foundation Trust based in Shropshire and Telford and Wrekin will not be charged as this training has been funded by your organisations by prior arrangement (*under review).