PMVA BRISTOL COURSE – 3 DAYS FULL TRAINING

PMVA (Prevention Management of Violence and Aggression)

This course is for candidates who are required to complete 3-day PMVA training or those that need to update their 3-day PMVA training certificate.
Care Force Training Limited ensures that our PMVA tutors are GSA grade A tutors.

Day 1

• Legislation, Legal Frameworks, and Ethical Considerations
• Legal Responsibilities and Reasonable Force
• Risks Associated with Restraint
• Mental Capacity + Mental Health
• Challenging Behaviour, Concerning Behaviours
• Root Causes of Distress
• Creating a Supportive Culture
• Health, Therapeutic Relationships, and Person-Centred Care
• Populations and Locations
• Dynamic Risk Assessments
• Stages of the Assault Cycle
• Breakaway – Conflict Resolution

Day 2

Verbal and Non-Verbal De-escalation Techniques on:

• Role + Responsibilities of Head Person, 3 C’s, presenting + securing the head
• Instruction and practise in: – Friendly come along (including non-Contact, stage one, stage two, and figure four) Team approaches
• Upper arm bandage
• Upper arm wrap for maintaining security
• Upper arm spiral to supine hold (prepared for descent to the ground)

Day 3

Instruction and practise in the following:

• Supine Descent
• Descend to the floor
• Upper arm wrap to an elevated resting position and return
• Difficult exercises (sniper position);
• Legs secured in supine;
• Elevated rest to standing
• Seated de-escalation
• Decent to chair
• Difficulty simulations
• Unexpected and/or inadvertent controlled descent to the ground initiated by the aggressor (patient led prone)
• The descent Upper rest to lower rest, then back up
• De-escalation on Prone Floor Legs
• Change from Prone to Supine
• Standing from Kneeling