Suicide Awareness and Response for Primary Care: 14 December 14.00-17.00

Video cameras are mandatory for the safety and governance of all attendees.

Date/Time: Tuesday 14 December (14:00-17:00)

Registration Closing Date: 5pm Monday, 6 December 2021

Course Overview:

Section 1: Suicide Awareness for Primary Care - Suitable for all primary care practice staff

• Promotes a role for ALL in suicide prevention
• Suitable for professionals and community members
• Develops understanding & compassion
• Introduces concept that suicide is not inevitable – ambivalence and interruption
• Develops common language between community, services and those in distress
• Develops a compassionate approach for demanding and time-pressured environments
• Equips delegates to use the resources provided to signpost to appropriate support
• Equips the delegate with the knowledge of how make their own Safety Plan

Section 2: Suicide Response for Primary Care - Provides primary care clinicians with training on how to use SAFETool™

• Safe assessment, triage, immediate safe response suitable for a busy GP with a time pressured clinical environment
• Underpinned by evidence-based principles, academic literature and lived experience
• Uses scenarios tailored to primary care
• Equips usage of SAFETool™
• Delegates develop skills and confidence instilling hope and co-producing Safety Plans

PLEASE NOTE: while the learning and knowledge of SAFETool will be applicable to all, they won’t be accredited to use SAFETool unless they are already in an existing role in formally assessing people experiencing suicide.

Please use the following link to self-register: https://portal.connectingwithpeople.org/cwp/registration/5024

IMPORTANT: You’ll receive an email from [email protected] after you have registered to attend.

This email contains a vital weblink to your training course page through which you will access training – you MUST click on this link well BEFORE your course, to:

• download/print course materials
• access the ‘click here when ready to join webinar’ button to join the webinar at the designated start time

Please contact [email protected], if you’ve not received this email after 24 hours of registering. Please use your email search function to locate this email, as this email may have gone into your junk/spam folder.”

IMPORTANT: This webinar training conference includes learning around the clinical assessment tool, SAFETool. To ensure safety and governance, if you wish to use SAFETool following the training, you will be required to complete an additional 40-minute online module in your own time, to verify understanding and use of the clinical tool. Only those attendees who complete this additional online module, will be registered and permitted to use SAFETool.