Training Consultants
Marian Bateman BSc, RN, First Aid Trainer/Assessor
Marian Bateman has been a Registered Nurse for the past 30 years and has gained experience in a variety of settings including general practice. She has worked on a number of different projects, audits and training initiatives for Primary Care Trusts, Social Services, the independent and voluntary sectors and a local college and university.
Marian has put together a number of training courses, such as Immunisation for Community, Practice and Occupational Health Nurses. She has been active in creating Epilepsy Awareness sessions for Community Nurses and Care Staff, and has developed Infection Control, MRSA Awareness, Safe Administration of Medicines, and First Aid courses for Care Staff as well as the general public.
Marian has also developed a course on Anaphylaxis and the use of the EpiPen, which has been useful for Companies and Organisations with employees suffering from the risk of severe allergic reactions. She has delivered courses for Care staff working with Service Users diagnosed with epilepsy, (particularly those Service Users with learning difficulties), where there is often a requirement for training in the Emergency Administration of Rectal Diazepam.
Marian is a Visiting Lecturer at a local University teaching Nursing Skills to Student Nurses, making a valuable contribution to their learning outcomes. She adopts a professional, but informal approach enabling students to feel at ease and join in with various activities, designed to encourage learning and understanding of the subject in hand.
Brenda Clayton
Brenda has undertaken hundreds of community care assessments, successfully working along side occupational therapists', social workers', the NHS, voluntary agencies', private care providers', families' and service users. This work has not been restricted to working with older adults, as Brenda has been involved on many occasions, developing and supporting care packages for clients' with a learning/physical disability, and clients' with mental health problems, as well as families caring for disabled children.
Highly experienced in managing large teams of community care staff, Brenda is used to dealing with complex issues which can easily arise on a day to day basis (often at the last minute); making her an ideal tutor and consultant with an exceptional ability to view matters from every angle. To further enhance a superb career record, Brenda has successfully completed the Registered Managers Award.
Having a highly pragmatic approach to course delivery, Brenda quickly establishes an excellent rapport with both novice and experienced care providers. Course evaluation records identify Brenda as being a first class trainer who delivers 'the goods' with accuracy, enthusiasm and understanding.Brenda Clayton has spent nearly two decades working closely with Social Services Domiciliary Care teams. During that time Brenda has qualified as an adult education teacher, and has been involved in developing and delivering an extensive and diverse range of social care training packages. One of Brenda's particular skills lies in delivering manual handling training to community care managers and their staff.
Tracy Demianczuk Grad dip phys. BSc Hons. MCSP.NBE
Registered with the Health Professions Council.
Tracy graduated as a Physiotherapist in 1984. She consolidated her physiotherapy experience in junior rotations for two years, and then progressed onto senior posts in outpatients, paediatrics and mental health. She became involved in Manual Handling training in 1991, delivering courses and undertaking assessments whilst working as a senior 1 Physiotherapist in mental health.
Her most recent post in the NHS was for Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health Trust, promoting mobility and physiotherapy assessments for older adults. She contributed to the development of the Falls Documentation policy, and has delivered a range of Moving and Handling training courses, as well as supporting the Manual Handling Coordinator in Risk Assessments and Work place assessments.
Tracy has worked for Solihull Social Services as a Risk Assessor where she gained valuable community based risk assessment experience, in addition to delivering training. She has successfully developed an assessment tool currently being used by the Older Adult teams for assessment of risk.
Tracy is a committed trainer, who has a strong desire to empower delegates to make informed assessments in handling situations and can adapt her teaching style to place an emphasis on the needs of the client. Her contribution to teaching safe handling practices to students of Mental Health nursing, is an invaluable resource to ARC Ltd.
Lesley Dowding RGN, SCM, MEd., BA, Cert.Ed (FE), Diploma in Management
Lesley's career has encompassed a number of differing experiences since qualification ranging from General Theatres, Midwifery, Gynaecology, Nanny in the USA, Veterinary Assistant, Anaesthetics & Recovery Sister, Management, and finally a Nurse Tutor within Schools of Nursing and Universities. Since 2003 Lesley has been involved with the teaching of safe handling and moving; an area she finds challenging in convincing students that the safe practices learned are not only for work but for all activities of living.
She also teaches mentorship skills for Operating Department Practitioners and Paramedics and has a passion for effective management techniques, endeavouring to make what might be considered dry theory applicable to clinical practice. In order to do this Lesley and a colleague have authored a book 'Managing in Health Care: a guide for nurses, midwives and health visitors' and is currently working on the next 'Leadership in Health Care' due for publication 2007.
Lesley believes that learning should be fun and appropriate to the needs of the individual or service. Similarly, it should be delivered in a language easily understandable to the students. To this end she likes to create a relaxed environment where all can contribute to the learning process. However, when the need arises, she can adapt her delivery to suit the audience and content of the session. Her students like her approachability and often remain in contact with her long after a course has been completed.
Richard Flemming SRN, RNT
Richard Flemming was born 1949 in a small village called Marden in the heart of Wiltshire (he retains his Wiltshire accent).
Richard's career began in 1965 when he joined the Royal Air Force (RAF) as a nursing attendant. In 1968 Richard was successful in gaining a place on a State Registered Nurse (SRN) course, qualifying in 1971. He left the RAF six years later in 1977, having attained the rank of Sergeant, and after gaining experience working in burns, plastic surgery and renal nursing. Richard moved to the Walsgrave Hospital, Coventry, where his main focus was renal nursing.
After drifting into lecturing at the school of nursing, Richard decided to place tutoring on a more formal basis, and successfully completed a Nurse Tutor course in 1984. He remained in nurse education until he retired from full time work in 2004. Richard still works part-time for Coventry University lecturing on Renal Nursing and Moving and Handling, having successfully trained as Moving and Handling tutor.
Richard has been married to Jill (also a nurse) for 36 years. They have two grown up daughters, Trudi and Sarah. His hobbies include growing orchids, stamp collecting - specialising in the postal history of the Channel Islands and Wiltshire. Richard also confesses to being a bit of a train spotter too!
Christine Mitchell RGN, SCM, RHV, RNT
Christine Mitchell completed her General Nurse training in London, and then moved to Birmingham to complete her midwifery training. After 2 years as a Midwife Christine trained as a Health Visitor and worked for 6 years in a Health Centre in North Birmingham. She then studied for a Certificate in Education, enabling her to teach both student nurses and health visitor students.
Christine completed a further year at a local hospital and then left to start a family. She eventually returned to work and was employed part time by a baby food company, and undertook some work as a 'bank' Health Visitor. Christine then returned to work as a part time health visitor for 2 years before returning to education in 1989, when she took the post of tutor at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, progressing to Lecturer at UCE Birmingham.
Christine has always been interested in the manual handling of patients and has taught 'Home Care' staff the principles of manual handling. She has been a valuable member of the UCE Manual Handling team, specialising in Paediatric handling.
In addition to Christine's interest in Manual Handling, she has also been involved with the St John Ambulance Brigade since the age of 12, and currently teaches on a wide range of First Aid courses, including the First Aid at Work course. Christine is currently involved with the Fellowship, or retired, section of the Brigade, where she says she 'feels quite young'!
Dave Sansum. Para, CertEd.
Dave Sansum has worked in the NHS since 1988. He has been a qualified Paramedic since 1992, and regularly works giving paramedic cover at motor racing events at his local race circuit.
Dave also works as a Resuscitation Officer, and during his time in the health service has been involved in many different aspects of training, including Health and Safety at Work, Manual handling and work based Assessment. He regularly teaches on International Trauma Life Support Courses (ITLS), teaching as far a field as Africa.
Dave is an Advanced Life Support Instructor, teaching all grades of hospital staff in advanced skills, and in 2006 he became a Qualified Instructor for the generic Instructor Course for the Resuscitation Council (UK).
Dave believes teaching people in a relaxed and friendly environment will help them to enjoy the experience, and learn to their full potential. Most importantly he has not forgotten what it is like to be a student, and will always try to help and understand when people have difficulty with the course content. Dave regularly gets excellent feedback from course evaluations.