Active Dorset can organise and deliver a range of physical activity training courses suitable for health and community organisations. The training will help professionals to gain knowledge, skills and confidence to promote physical activity within their role to support people to be more active.
We can also help to signpost healthcare professionals to a variety of training opportunities provided by other organisations.
This Training Hub has been designed to help you find a training course that meets your learning needs.
Click the + and expand to find out more about each training offer.
Upcoming training and events
Supporting Individuals to Move More
Overview: Active Dorset delivers a free interactive online webinar packed with information to help you encourage others to move more, including national guidelines for physical activity levels, the health benefits of moving more and national and local resources to signpost individuals to.
Audience: The training is relevant for individuals who are having conversations with the adult public in a professional or voluntary capacity. This would include staff working in a healthcare setting, social prescribers and volunteers working in a voluntary, community, or social enterprise.
Delivery type: Online
Duration: 1-3 Hours
Cost: Free
How to Book: If you are interested in having this training delivered in your place of work, please contact Kit Walder. Sessions can be adapted in duration and content depending on the needs of the audience.
RSPH Level 2 Award in Supporting Behaviour Change
Overview: This qualification will provide learners with the knowledge, confidence and skills to support individuals who are thinking of making a health behaviour change.
Audience:This qualification is for any individuals who are interested in helping others develop a healthier lifestyle by encouraging physical activity. Suitable for community activity providers, local authority workers, social prescribers, and health coaches.
Delivery type: In person
Duration: 2 days
Cost: £80.00. The course is free for staff working in the Dorset Integrated Care Partnership. Please contact Kit Walder at Active Dorset to access the discount code if you are eligible.
Supporting Individuals to Move More - eLearning
Overview: Active Dorset has created a series of bitesized 20 minute e-learning modules packed with information to help you encourage others to move more, including national guidelines for physical activity levels, the health benefits of moving more and national and local resources to signpost individuals to. The series can be viewed at a time that suits you.
Audience: The training is relevant for individuals who are having conversations with the adult public in a professional or voluntary capacity. This would include staff working in a healthcare setting, social prescribers and volunteers working in a voluntary, community, or social enterprise.
Delivery type: E-Learning
Duration: 20 minutes per module
Cost: Free
How to Book: Click here to register and access the course modules.
This Mum Moves Ambassador Training
Audience: Any professionals working with pregnant and postnatal adults, including but not limited to health visitors, midwives, physiotherapists, GPs, social prescribers, health coaches, community support officers and volunteers, and fitness professionals.
Overview: A half day training course that will equip professionals with the knowledge, skills and confidence to discuss physical activity during pregnancy and after childbirth. Learners who complete the course will be provided with access to a digital toolkit to support conversations and further learning. It will also provide participants with the resources to facilitate the promotion of physical activity, including cascade and promotional materials.
Delivery type: Online via ZOOM
Cost: £175 per person when booked individually. Courses can also be commissioned for £3,500
BMJ Learning | Physical activity in the treatment of long term conditions
Overview: Through BMJ learning online, medics can access nine e-learning modules that highlight the importance of physical activity, with detailed evidence-based summaries on specific conditions including cancer, diabetes and mental health.
Audience: Medics
Delivery Type: E-Learning
Duration: Online eLearning modules (total time 8 hours)
Cost: Free
Health Education England | Physical activity and health
Overview : This e-learning programme prepares GPs, nurses and other healthcare professionals to champion the benefits of physical activity with their patients and, in doing so, help prevent and manage a range of common physical and mental health conditions.
The programme comprises of 3 short introductory sessions, sessions exploring people's changing needs across the life course and specific health conditions (cancer, cardiovascular conditions, diabetes, musculoskeletal health and mental health).
Audience:All healthcare professionals
Delivery type: E-learning
Duration: 11 e-learning modules - each module lasts approximately 20-25 minutes
Cost: Free
Physical Activity Clinical Champion Training
This training option is temporarily unavailable.
The Advanced Wellbeing Research Centre will lead a consortium with the Faculty of Sport and Exercise Medicine and Intelligent Health to run the Sport England-funded Physical Activity Clinical Champions (PACC) Programme.OHID and Sport England are collaborating with the consortium to transition the programme to its new home and are expecting disruption to deliver. No bookings will be taken until the new systems and processes are in place.
Please email pacc@shu.ac.uk to find out more about the programme.
LiveWell Dorset Training
Overview: LiveWell Dorset's rolling programme of virtual training workshops aim to build the knowledge, confidence and skills of people working in Dorset to take better care of their own health, and support others within the communities they serve.
Sessions include:
Wellbeing Essentials for You
Wellbeing Essentials for Others
Wellbeing Essentials for Teams
Wellbeing Essentials For Managers
Audience: LiveWell Dorset offer free RSPH accredited health and wellbeing training to organisations and staff working within Dorset's Integrated Care System, including to colleagues in local government, NHS and Primary Care Networks.
Delivery Type: Online or Face to Face
Cost: FREE - funded by Public Health Dorset
Moving Medicine | Active Conversations
Overview: Active Conversations is a practical, evidence-based online learning course developed by clinicians, for clinicians that teaches you how to have quick, effective and positive conversations that encourage patients to do more physical activity.
Audience: Healthcare professionals.
Active Conversations is for anyone who wants to study motivational interviewing in the context of physical activity. The course has previously attracted consultants, social prescribers, physiotherapists, midwives, cardiac rehabilitation specialists, dermatologists, dieticians, GPs, nursing assistants, community exercise officers and other professionals.
Delivery type: Flexible online learning
Duration: There are two courses available, a Foundations course, accredited with 6 CPD points and a Full course which incorporates Foundations and is accredited with 16 CPD points.
Cost: There is a charge to complete the course, details of pricing is found on the website.
Accreditation: Yes
All other enquiries
Kit Walder
Health and Physical Activity Officer
For further information on any of the courses, please contact our Health and Physical Activity Officer, Kit Walder using the following details.
- Mobile
- 07514 622169
- kwalder@activedorset.org
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