Information for providers
Please see some information below on Oliver McGowan Training and Sequoia CEN/PD Training
Oliver McGowan Training
From 1st April 2025, the ICB will no longer be providing the Oliver McGowan training to health and social care partners in BNSSG. All social care providers have been asked to plan their provision of this training. South Glos Council Adult Social Care (ASC) will be arranging Tier 2 training for internal staff and this will also be available to providers as per the usual charging policy. Social Care organisations have the option to train a facilitator and to train co trainers with lived experience (training free until April 2025) to deliver this internally - more information can be obtained from the ICB. The training is required to be refreshed every 3 years.
The Council’s Learning and Development Team have asked for providers to complete the below MS form to confirm arrangements post April 2024 and so we can plan ahead accordingly:
https://forms.office.com/e/C1nY44xcVz
Sequoia CEN/PD training- new dates
New dates for the Sequoia training for staff working with people with complex emotional needs/personality disorders in the community (whether diagnosed or not). This includes Primary care staff ( GPs and other surgery=staff), Voluntary sector staff , social care staff , mental health staff etc.
Places must be booked on the training and people need to stay in their locality =rea please as building community links is part of this training. All courses are face to face and run from 9.15am-4.15 pm.
To book a place please contact myself at iola.davies@emerginghealth.co.uk
and say on which course you would like to reserve a place.
Sequoia 37 Wednesday 13th November-South Glos staff only
Sequoia 38 Thursday 5th December-North Somerset staff only
Sequoia 39 Tuesday 17th December-Bristol staff only
Sequoia 40 Wednesday 15th January-South Glos staff only
Sequoia 41 Monday 27th January-Bristol staff only
What is the Sequoia Tree (Sequoia) training?
The Sequoia training is for a variety of staff who work with people with the difficulties known as personality disorders/complex emotional needs. The training is to mirror the intentions of the CMHF , a variety of staff working together, within localities. Each course is a mixture of staff. (Approx, 20 people)
Key staff groups include
GPs and Primary care staff (especially PCLS)
VCSE staff in the locality - Recovery navigotors
Social workers and social care staff
It is a one day training, face to face, from 9.15-4.15, usually in your locality area.
The learning outcomes for the training are:
Understand national best practice and up to date knowledge for working with people with these difficulties
Promote positive culture change
Understand key skills and attitudes for working with people
Engender hope and aspirations for change
Mirror the community mental health framework, with staff, from a variety of organisations, and roles, working together.
Gain an initial understanding of the new Sequoia PD/CEN service
Each training is delivered by a staff member working in the field and a person with lived experience (roles often overlap).
The content of the training is:
Session 1- Key background knowledge - What are PD/CEN, how do they develop, links to attachment and trauma and different ways of framing.
Session 2-The role of the unconscious, linking the past to the present and individual patterns - Psychologically informed practice, schema, formulation and recovery
Session 3-Key ways of working with people with PD/CEN - Communication, relationships, validation, reflection, mentalisation, stigma and attitudes
Session 4-Ourselves, our organisations and our teams - Splitting, boundaries, team working, reflection, self care and endings
Please note that this training is not suitable=for staff who have done more advanced PD/CEN training such as SC, DBT, MBT, etc.