Communication Skills and Writing Visit Notes Training Course

Essential In-House Training Courses for the Health and Social Care Sector

Communication skills are vital in any setting but particularly important in the care sector, where ensuring that those under your care receive the information they need in a way that they can fully understand. So this Communication Skills and Writing Visit Notes Training covers Care Certificate Standard 6  with the addition of practical exercises in writing good visit notes and maintaining confidentiality. 

Course Outline

  • Why we communicate
  • Forms of communication
  • Body language
  • What Good Communication looks like
  • Barriers to communication and how to overcome them
  • Maintaining good working relationships 
  • Questioning
  • Confidentiality and laws relating to
  • Writing end of visit notes well
  • When not to write in visit notes
Communication and Writing Visit Notes

The body of the Communication Skills and Writing Visit Notes Training course covers the key aspects of writing visit notes including how to effectively structure your notes and reports and how to clearly put your message across without confusion or ambiguity. This includes the use of clear and concise language that’s grammatically correct. From the initial gathering of information to editing, spell checking and delivering your notes, we cover everything you will need to become more effective at this key skill. Making useful notes is key to effective outcomes. Learning to document the important aspects of a conversation, especially if you’re a part of that conversation is a skill that can be developed. Our course helps with techniques and strategies to help delegates to increase their skills as effective note takers.

Communication Skills and Writing Visit Notes Training course cost - £495 Half Day Rate

Communication and Writing Visit Notes Training

Don't forget, I also tailor this Communication Skills and Writing Visit Notes Training course as a bespoke training for your business.

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COURSE DISCOUNT RATES

If you opt to have two half day Health & Social Care Training courses wrapped into one day, you will be invoiced for one day so instead of paying 2 x £495 (=£990), you will pay just £895 day rate (saving £95).

Please note travel over a 60 mile round trip from Didcot (OX11) will be invoiced 45p per extra mile. If you’re looking for hospitality training that is not listed here, please give us a call or email us and we can discuss your requirements. 

About Our Services

We specialise in Employee Training and Development for the Adult Social Care, Hospitality and Catering sectors and our services include:  

  • Mandatory and Statutory Health and Social Care Training
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  • L & D Consultation as well as Learning Design and Learning Delivery
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About Emerald Training and People Development

Emerald Training and People Development Services provides flexible and customised solutions for businesses looking to enhance their training and people development offerings, without the need for a full-time trainer or learning and development manager. 

We know that eLearning and classroom training may not be suitable for every setting, and we go all out to find the best approach for your specific needs.

Our services include analysis, on-site face to face training, remote training, audit and training needs assessment, custom training/ learning and development design and delivery, induction uplift, and support with retaining employees through a robust career pathway. 

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