Training for Carers

The Carers’ Support Service offers a range of training to help you cope with and manage your caring role.

First Aid Training and Looking After Your Back workshops run throughout the year giving Carers the skills and knowledge to deal with an emergency situation, and information and advice on helping the person you care for move about safely without hurting your own back.

Starting on the 25th June  – We are hosting the popular course Understanding Dementia – A four session course to learn what it means to have Dementia – What Dementia is – How it affects people – See below.

The training we provide very much depends on what you ask us for. We have a variety of training and workshops available all year round. You are also able to access training provided by Focus Independent Adult Social work absolutely free.

Give us a call to find out about training opportunities we currently have available.

Want to access training?


Take up a hobby?


Improve your health and fitness?


Get in touch to find out how we can help

First Aid Training

DAY ONE

Dealing with an emergency
Unconsciousness
Choking
Bleeding
Burns
Recovery Position

DAY TWO

Heart attack
Stroke
Head Injuries
Diabetic emergency
Hypothermia
Sprains, strains and broken bones

Course content may be subject to change

Forthcoming courses in 2019.

Course 12th & 19th July  
Course 12th &19th September   

All sessions are 10am to 1pm

The Carers’ Support Service,
1 Town Hall Square, Grimsby,
DN31 1HY
Light refreshments will be provided

Give us a call to book your place:
01472 242277 

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Confidence Building and Stress Management Workshops

Confidence Building
Stress Management

June 2019 

9.30am to 12pm

1 Town Hall Square,
Grimsby
DN31 1HY

Thursday 20th June
Confidence Building

  • Accept and value yourself more
  • Learn the power of positive affirmation
  • Talk yourself up, instead of talking yourself down
  • Let go of guilt

Thursday 27th June 
Stress Management

  • Learn what stress is and how it effects you
  • Manage stress more effectively
  • Identify personal stress triggers
  • Breathing and relaxation tools to keep calm

Attend 1 or both workshops. Call 01472 242277 to book your place.(same time for both sesions

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Roles of a funeral director

Roles of a Funeral Director – To come in the autumn 2019.

This talk and question and answer session is a sensitive and gentle look at what a funeral director does – the things they need to do when someone has died, but the session also looks at the history of the funeral director – how the high street funeral parlour came into being, and the changes through the ages. Please call 01472 242277 if you would like to register your interest.

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Understanding Dementia

This long awaited course is taking place at the Carers Support Centre in Grimsby, Town Hall Square DN31 1HY from 2.00pm until 5.00pm each week for four weeks. These free workshops are designed with carers in mid  – so you can develop a good understanding of dementia and gain useful information to benefit you and the person you care for.

4 sessions on Tuesdays

  • 25th June 2019—What is Dementia
  • 2nd July 2019—Brain, Behaviour & Memory
  • 9th July 2019—The ageing senses & stages of dementia
  • 16th July 2019—Communication & Carer Coping Strategies

 Booking is essential. To reserve you place please contact us on 01472 242277

Foot Care

How to care for your feet and the feet of those you care for. 17th June 1.30pm to 3pm at the Carers Support Service.

Everything you wanted to know about Bunions, Blisters, In-growing toe-nail. But also the practical things as well.

Please book in advance on 01472 242277