Bridges Self-Management Practitioner Training
Bridges Self-Management Practitioner Training builds health and care professionals’ knowledge, skills and confidence to deliver effective personalised self-management support for everyone they work with.
This training increases participants’:
- 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 clinical practice
- Confidence and capacity to work in this way with patients and in teams
- Underpinned by co-design and ongoing research
- Always co-delivered by facilitators with lived and clinical experience of long-term health conditions
- Fully contextualised to address and support your team and practitioner needs
Impact:
Bridges improves wellbeing of patients, staff, and teams. It streamlines ways of working, focussing on high quality interactions that get to the heart of what matters most and build self-efficacy.
People feel more in control, less isolated, and able to manage the day-to-day ups and downs of living with a health condition. Staff and teams report increased confidence, a reconnection to their job purpose, and improvements in job satisfaction. When effectively implemented and sustained, it results in system-wide improvement.
The Course:
- 4 highly interactive 2-hour online workshops delivered over 6 weeks, including small practical elements to try outside the sessions and a break to practice and reflect on learning so far
- A workshop handout that has key tools, theories and spaces for reflections and activities
- 8 CPD points on completion of case reflection
- 2 years’ of implementation and sustainability support
- Access to Bridges’ online Community of Practice, full of resources and tools
- Contextualised to the needs of participants and teams
Our training is most effective when groups of 12 can participate from the same team, and we also run mixed groups for individuals or small groups from different teams and disciplines to learn together. To explore what would work best for you, or to get further information that may support with a funding bid, get in touch.
Bridges is an excellent course to support clinicians to return to what is important not only to the people we work with but also the values of ourselves and our practice.Occupational Therapist, Association of Occupational Therapists, Ireland
Wonderfully paced course, great space held for reflection and learning. Learned so much from patient experience of rehab.Speech and Language Therapist, Guy’s and St Thomas’s NHS Foundation Trust
The sessions really supported me to shape myself better for best patient care.Clinical Nurse Specialist, James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
I really liked the way theoretical aspects were linked with ‘lived experiences’; it gave me a better idea of how to use them in practice. The sessions were interactive and gave the impression that you were addressing each participant individually.Occupational Therapist, Basel, Switzerland
I found the sessions so good, so much covered but in a great way with lots of practical tips that could immediately be used in clinical practice straight away.Physiotherapist, Association of Occupational Therapists, Ireland
Excellent at getting us to think about things differently, and really resonated with the pressures and challenges we face in the NHSOccupational Therapist, Aneurin Bevan University Health Board
It was the perfect level of engagement and felt like a safe space to be open to sharing thoughts/experiences. Facilitators were very supportive of every answer and were able to link our examples specifically to the Bridges approach which was very validating that we were on the right track.Occupational Therapist, Guy’s and St Thomas’s NHS Foundation Trust
Support to sustain this way of working
On completion of the training, participants are invited to become a Bridges Champion: those that fly the flag for Bridges, act as agents of change within their service and facilitate support from Bridges for the wider team for two years after your course.
Champions gain access to a further 15 hours’ of CPD per year:
- Monthly peer coaching sessions facilitated by the Bridges team
- CPD accredited termly Champions learning events
- Online resources to help embed and sustain Bridges
- Champions newsletter sharing good practice from other Champions and news from Bridges
The clear and evidence based framework to support working on what matters most to people living with stroke and their families has transformed my working practice and given me the foundation for my role as an AHP ConsultantAHP Consultant in Stroke, Aneurin Bevan University Health Board
As an AHP lead but SLT by background it helps me to support my whole MDT equally with my clinical knowledge as it is not discipline specific. It helps me feel confident to allow others to feel confident to relinquish control and humanise service provision as well as listen to gut over paperwork.Clinical Lead for Stroke Therapy pathway, Barts Health NHS Trust
I love being able to access the resources and being able to come to peer coaching and hearing what other people are doingSpeech and Language Therapist, Sirona Care and Health
While I was doing the course and immediately afterwards, I felt very ‘Bridgey’ and I was really enjoying it. I notice that when I’m under time pressure I can slip back into ‘getting tasks done’, but all of the ongoing support has helped me to be aware of this and pull it back. I’ve really appreciated the Implementation Workshop and the Monthly Peer Coaching Sessions. I’ve been to 3 now and they’ve been amazing.Physiotherapist, Specialist Palliative Physiotherapy Team, Bedfordshire Hospitals Trust
Being a Champion brings Bridges back into focus and keeps it on my agenda to begin wider disseminationOccupational Therapist, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals
Thank you for keeping this alive and supporting the team.Physiotherapist, CINNS Coventry