Medication management (school age childcare)

This session has been designed to develop the knowledge and understanding of staff at all levels working in school age childcare in the subject of medication management. From how to utilise this in practice, to ensure medication is stored safely, administered safely, removed safely, and everything in between.

Training Overview –

This session has been broken down into four main sections:

  • What is medication management?
  • The information that is required to be documented & recorded throughout the medication management process
  • A detailed look at each stage of a typical medication management process
  • Common medications you may come across

Details

Training Overview

The Scottish Out of School Care Network is the national charity supporting the development of high quality out of school care in Scotland. We currently (December 2018) offer: Free physical activity and wellbeing training across Scotland, we are currently providing training for trainers for CALA staff to help deliver this in the Highlands Free STEM training with only a few places left on the course starting January 2019 in partnership with West college Scotland at their Paisley Campus. Purchasable training across Scotland on: Resilience and adverse childhood experiences – introduction, including film screening, with a low charge to cover costs only. Mentoring training for quality improvement (usually member services undertaking Achieving Quality Scotland, our quality assurance resource for out of school care). Bespoke training tailored to out of school care service needs and requests. For example: Business and financial planning for out of school care, management, supervision and appraisal, consulting children in out of school care, planning and using space for out of school care. There is a training section on our website with instructions on how to book or request training. www.soscn.org

Training Provider Contact Details

Provider Title:
Scottish Out of School Care Network

Contact Number:
01415641284

Contact Email:
patrick@soscn.org

Website:
https://soscnlearn.online/course/

Quality Assurance

SOSCN manage Achieving Quality Scotland (AQS). This is a quality assurance scheme designed to help school age childcare services in Scotland improve their practice and ultimately give children and young people within their care the best possible opportunities in terms of play, care and informal learning. Although our training is not currently externally quality assured, we take the same ethos of AQS into our training offerings, regularly reviewing and adapting training content to take into consideration updates to best practice guidance, legislation and membership feedback.

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