This is an interdisciplinary event between the Irish Society of Chartered Physiotherapists (ISCP), the Irish Association of Speech and Language Therapists (IASLT) and Association of Occupational Therapists of Ireland (AOTI) supported by funding from the National HSCP Office.
Course delivery:
The training is 4 x 2 hour interactive virtual workshops, spread over 6 weeks to allow time for implementation, confidence building and reflection. It is ESSENTIAL that you only apply to this course if you are available to attend every session.
Each session runs on a Tuesday, from 9.30 - 11.30 on the following dates:
16-Sep / 23-Sep / 30-Sep / 21-Oct.
AOTI are taking expressions of interest for this course.
About Bridges:
Bridges is a social enterprise focusing on personalised self-management support for people living with long-term conditions. Bridges is based on self-efficacy theory (Bandura) and covers key principles that enable staff to provide personalised self-management support within every healthcare interaction. Bridges courses are co-delivered by people with lived experience.
The Bridges training aims to build practitioners’:
- Knowledge of Bridges core principles of personalised self-management support and Bridges’ underlying evidence base that supports its effectiveness.
- Skills and tools to embed the core principles throughout your clinical practice.
- Confidence in working in this way with patients and in teams.
Workshop content:
- Workshop 1: This workshop introduces the Bridges approach to Self-Management and how it relates to your service. We focus on identifying what most meaningful to patients and introduce the concept of self-efficacy.
- Workshop 2: Continues with self-efficacy, focusing on the power of reflection. It then covers the 7 key self-management skills and why language is so important.
- Workshop 3: The 3rd workshop focuses on goals, hopes, fears and risk. It finishes with a section on individual action planning so you are ready with your next steps for how to begin to embed Bridges into your professional practice.
- Implementation phase: There is then a 3 week implementation phase during which there is a break from workshops and participants try out Bridges in practice and complete a case reflection.
- Workshop 4: The group then returns to discuss and reflect how Bridges has gone, and learn new content on collective efficacy and self- management resources. You’ll also start to develop next steps for implementation and sustainability of Bridges in your service.
Follow up support from Bridges:
Attendees also have the opportunity to become a Bridges champion and avail of ongoing support from the Bridges team, including coaching and networking to ensure changes are embedded and sustained.
Important information to read prior to applying to this course :
- It is essential that you only apply if you are able to attend each session
- Booking will close noon Tuesday 24th June, or when 15 applications have been received, whichever is sooner.
- Applying for the course and paying the fee does not indicate you have a place on the course. All applications will be reviewed and participants will be advised by AOTI by the end of June whether they have been successful. Unsuccessful applicants will be refunded their payment at this time.
- In the likely event that the course is oversubscribed priority will be given to applicants who best demonstrate in their application: their ability to put the training in to practice; the ability to utilise the follow up support Bridges supports; the benefit this training will have for service users and the benefit this training will have for their service and/or HSCP colleagues.
- If you are offered and accept a place on this course your name and email address and application form question responses will be shared with the facilitators for the purposes of course planning, course provision and providing supporting information. If there is particular information shared in your question responses that you do not want shared with course facilitator, or you have any queries in relation to this, please email cpd@aoti.ie to advise.
- Approximately 8 weeks prior to the course you will receive a survey from the course facilitator which helps to tailor the course to your learning needs. If this survey is not returned within 4 weeks you risk losing your spot on the course.
- Places will be prioritised for HSE funded staff (including S38/S39)
Application and Payment information:
- Payment in full is taken at the time of application.
- Payment of the fee does not guarantee you a place at this event.
- Full payment must be received prior to the closing date in order to secure your place.
- If the event is oversubscribed you will be provided with a full refund.
- Successful applicants will be notified that they have a place at the event following the closing date.
- Places are limited and members are advised to apply early to secure a place.
- Please note: notifications will be sent to the email address entered on this application form. Please make sure to enter correctly the email address you wish to use for communication about this event.
- Please read AOTIs CPD events cancellation/refund policy. See AOTI T&Cs
