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Course Information Our extensively proven course delves into the essential stages of process and system auditing. Gain invaluable insights and direction in auditing systems and processes, spanning across global and local organisational levels. This course will assist delegates with: A practical approach for the development and conduct of process and system audits An enhanced understanding of key system audit principles, preparation, design and conduct Increased expertise, efficiency and confidence. This course is structured to encourage delegates to: Discuss and develop ideas Solve specific problems Share knowledge and experiences. By the end of the course delegates will be better able to: Design and plan more effectively to achieve their process and systems audit objectives and add value to their organisation Improve the effectiveness, focus and credibility of the audit programme Understand the key system audit principles, preparation, design and conduct Develop system audit tools to ensure more effective audit conduct and outcome Create audit strategies utilising risk management principles Prepare for inspections. Tutors Tutors will be comprised of (click the photos for biographies): Allison Jack Executive Director, Bristol Myers Squibb Rocio Castellanos Director, Pfizer Ltd Guy Houben G(C)LP Auditor, Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson Programme Please note timings may be subject to alteration. Day 1 08:50 Registration 09:00 Welcome and Introductions, Expectations/Challenges/Experiences A discussion to explore the range of approaches to the conduct of systems audit. 09:30 Introducing Systems Audit What is a system? Why conduct system audits? Advantages, disadvantages and challenges. 10:20 Break 10:35 Systems Audit Design and Planning Identifying the customer, setting objectives, development of the audit plan and audit tools, plans for the audit report. 12:00 Designing System Audit Tools 12:45 Lunch 13:30 System Audit Plan - Exercise 14:00 Introduction to Case Studies The objectives of the case studies are defined and process and outputs described. 14:15 Case Studies - Session 1 A first opportunity for work on case studies. Defining objectives and scope and understanding the requirements of the audit client. 15:00 Break 15:20 Case Studies - Session 1 continued 16:30 Case Studies - Feedback 17:00 Close of Day 1 Day 2 09:00 Simple System Audit Example - Introduction The objectives of the case studies are defined and process and outputs described. 09:10 Case Studies - Session 2 - A Simple System Audit Example An example of system audit applied to a simple system. 10:30 Break 10:45 A Simple System Audit Example - Case Study Feedback 11:30 Strategy Audit programme planning. 12:15 Lunch 13:00 Case Studies - Session 3 Work on delegate's case studies. 14:30 Break 14:45 Case Studies - Session 3 - Feedback 15:15 Closing remarks 15:30 Close of course Extra Information Face-to-face course Course Material Course material will be available in PDF format for delegates attending this course. The advantages of this include: Ability for delegates to keep material on a mobile device Ability to review material at any time pre and post course Environmental benefits – less paper being used per course. The material will be emailed in advance of the course and RQA will not be providing any printed copies of the course notes during the training itself. Delegates wishing to have a hard copy of the notes should print these in advance to bring with them. Alternatively delegates are welcome to bring along their own portable devices to view the material during the training sessions. Remote course Course Material This course will be run completely online. You will receive an email with a link to our online system, which will house your licensed course materials and access to the remote event. Please note this course will run in UK timezone. The advantages of this include: Ability for delegates to keep material on a mobile device Ability to review material at any time pre and post course Environmental benefits – less paper being used per course Access to an online course group to enhance networking. You will need a stable internet connection, a microphone and a webcam. CPD Points 14 Points Development Level Develop

Join Dr Katie Lihou (University of Bristol), Phillipa Page (NADIS) and Matt Colston (ELANCO) for discussions around blowfly control. A review of the blow fly life cycle along with preventative management strategies and appropriate chemical use will be discussed by Matt from ELANCO. Phillipa will describe effective treatments of clinically affected sheep to minimise compromised sheep welfare.  Dr Lihou will discuss the costs associated with prevention and treatment of clinical cases of blowfly using cost/benefit analysis modelling. This will be a useful refresher ahead of the blow fly season to ensure that knowledge is up to date for improved client and customer engagement. This event will conclude with a Q&A session. This webinar, aimed at Vets, SQPS and farmers, is being hosted by NADIS in association with Elanco. Dr Katie L Lihou, PhD, BSc Katie completed her PhD at the University of Bristol on the prevalence and distribution of livestock ectoparasites in the UK, in the department of Veterinary Parasitology and Ecology. Before her PhD, she studied 3 years of Veterinary Medicine, before moving into Biology. Katie is now a post-doctoral researcher working in the Bristol Vaccine Centre on infectious disease epidemiology and modelling. Phillipa Page, BVSc BSc MRCVS  Phillipa qualified from Liverpool Vet School in 2006 and started her first job in Neath, South Wales in a mixed practice. Following a short time as a locum dairy vet in Devon she then joined Wood Vet group in 2009 as a large animal vet. Her work was predominantly dairy but she had a special interest in sheep and developed the sheep side of the practice. In 2016 she then moved to specialize in sheep veterinary work with Flock Health Ltd. This involves a mixture of consultancy flock health work, farmer and vet CPD training and collaboration with retailers, processors and pharmaceutical companies and industry levy bodies. Phillipa was part of the co design groups for the DEFRA Animal Health and Welfare Pathway and Endemics disease program. Phillipa also works with NADIS (National Animal Disease Information Service) as the sheep lead on the Blowfly, parasite control, online health planning and disease alerts information. She has been a board member on the British Cattle Veterinary Association and the Sheep Veterinary Society and is the current conference organiser for the Sheep Veterinary Society and the current Junior Vice President. Phillipa co authored and published a book ‘Sheep Keeping’ as part of the professional small holders series by 5M Publishing and the chapter ‘Lameness’ in Differential Diagnosis in Sheep. 2022 Herriot Publications. She is involved with research and works on regular contributions to publications and is currently working towards a Diploma of the European College of Small Ruminant Health and Production. Outside of work she is a tenant farmer of 100 acres. Together with her husband and two boys she farms a flock of 300 commercial ewes and has a farm shop. Matt Colston, BM & S, CertSHP, MRCVS Matt graduated from the R(D)SVS in Edinburgh in 1986. He then spent five years working in a mixed practice in Fife and the Borders before taking up a two-year demonstrator’s position (shared between R(D)SVS and SAC (Edinburgh Genetics), concentrating on equine reproduction and artificial breeding in small ruminants. He later obtained the Cert.SHP qualification before returning to general practice in Penrith, where he has worked since 1997. In November 2013, Matt joined Novartis Animal Health as a Veterinary Technical Advisor for the Farm Animal Team. When Novartis was acquired by Elanco, he continued in this role with the company. Also, Matt currently serves as the Chairman of Moredun Foundation's North of England Regional Board.

The cost of the Retreat is £625. A deposit of £325 secures your space with the remaining £300 payable by September. From the moment we are born, even before we are born, we are experiencing loss. Our sorrows can gather and grow and become the path that we most fear to tread. If only we collectively knew that by giving ourselves an opportunity to be with our sorrow and turn towards our hidden pain, we may find our way home to our Self sooner.  We have to be able to grieve to praise life and connect with our full authentic selves, it is testament to the fact that we love. Grief gets stuck and like trauma, it is downloaded into our bodies, which stops the flow of our accurate present moment experiences, our access to Self-Energy and living freely. We are wired to connect and co-regulate to survive. Connection in community is no longer a priority in many societies today. We may have lost the sense of belonging that our ancestors once had, through living in community, in tribes and villages.  This 3-day retreat offers a unique space of holding for expressing the unexpressed, being witnessed, enabling each in their own way to be seen, heard and felt together in community. This is often our missing experience. We will be laying the ground for the expression and witnessing of grief in community, that which is deeply personal, yet universal. Four passionate grief warriors who know from the inside the importance of being with grief and having walked this path with many, are offering an opportunity to honour our losses and live our fullest life. We will be stepping outside of our cultural burdens of individualism to come together with our sorrow.  We will be exploring grief as much broader than (and including) the loss of a loved one. We may also experience the grief of our expectations not being met for this life; grief held in our systems from our ancestors; grief of events in the world; grief about the harm we have caused others in our lives; the grief that our parts hold as our life changes as we and our families age; and the grief held by our parts as we heal and consider how different things could have been for them.  This retreat will be held within the frame of Internal Family Systems Therapy (IFS), with heart opening sacred ritual and ceremony, incorporating sound healing, gongs, drums and voice and supported by yoga, Reiki, meditation and internal enquiry. We will be making use of the beautiful grounds at Penny Brohn (Bristol) to support our healing and connecting intentions. Our retreat is suitable for anyone with some familiarity with IFS either through your own personal work or professional practice.  The space will be held by Lynn Palethorpe, Sally Burke, Zandra Bamford and Becky Cresswell.  Lynn is a gentle and containing Approved IFS Consultant, Certified IFS Therapist (L3) and Clinical and IFS Supervisor. Alongside her private practice, she’s a Program Assistant on IFS trainings, Lecturer in Counselling and Reiki Practitioner. Sally works collaboratively and compassionately as an Integrative Psychotherapist, Certified Sensorimotor Psychotherapist, IFS Certified Therapist, Approved Consultant with the IFS Institute and Reiki Practitioner. Zandra is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Approved IFS Consultant and Certified IFS Therapist with over 20 years experience working with complex trauma within a deeply compassionate and holistic approach. Becky, founder of GroundedPeace is a certified Sound Healing Practitioner and Teacher, Musician, Yoga Teacher and Reiki Healer.  * A retreat that offers a unique experience of expressing and witnessing our grief in community. * All parts are truly welcome and celebrated  * Discovering through rituals and sound how unexpressed grief may have kept us stuck in repeating patterns. * Befriending protectors through meditations and creative practices. * Ritual and release focusing on six gates of grief. * Exploring and expressing sorrow through sound, voice and movement. * Choice in how you wish to respond and take part (all parts are welcome). * Optional follow up group for further integration 12 weeks later. * Nutritious, balanced food catering to all dietary requirements.  There are two booking options available: with or without dinner and bed and breakfast (Thurs and Fri nights). Lunch and refreshments are provided for all participants throughout the 3 days.  Please email threegatesretreats@gmail.com if you have any questions.  We look forward to welcoming you.  “There are many ways grief is felt. It is not just the sorrowful tender tears that come in those quiet moments. Grief is feral and it asks us to lay our soul bare, to strip back to the bones, to surrender control, she will not be negotiated or tamed. It can arrive as anger, fear, sadness, guilt, apathy, despair, numbness, powerlessness and hopelessness. And when we are witnessed and validated, acknowledged and held in loving empathic heart presence a level of healing occurs that is deeply and profoundly freeing……” Stephen Jenkinson Lynn Palethorpe Sally Burke Zandra Bamford Becky Cresswell

Registration will begin at 7:30 AM. The training will begin promptly at 8:00 AM. Please plan your arrival accordingly to ensure you don't miss any important information. Equip your drivers with the skills to navigate urban roads safely with our innovative VR training course. This DVSA-approved, 7-hour course utilises virtual reality to create a fully immersive learning experience. Drivers will gain a firsthand perspective of the challenges faced by vulnerable road users, such as cyclists, in a safe and controlled environment. Benefits: Immersive Learning: Develop empathy and understanding of vulnerable road users through VR simulations. Accessible & Risk-Free: Learn defensive driving techniques without the need for on-road cycling experience. Consistent Quality: Get a standardised training experience unlike unpredictable real-world scenarios. Course Content: The Changing Urban Landscape Sharing the Road with Vulnerable Users Defensive Driving Techniques Driver Attitude and Perception Impact of Driver Fitness on Safety Hazard Recognition for Vulnerable Road Users Compliance and Recognition: This course meets the requirements of: Work Related Road Risk (WRRR) FORS Silver Level CLOCS Standard Invest in your drivers' safety and the safety of vulnerable road users. Enroll today! Please review our Terms and Conditions for more information.

These are the specific locations and timings for your upcoming courses! This 1-day course is all about exploring the art and science of using essential oils to improve wellbeing, cognition and engagement for clients living with dementia. As well as sharing my knowledge I will welcome you to share your experiences and expertise to generate the best outcomes for clients. I’m constantly amazed at the profound connections and improvements I see or hear about from loved ones and care partners during and following aromatherapy massage treatments. This course is specialist training for qualifying or qualified aromatherapists who wish to explore their art and increase confidence working in this rewarding field. Although participants would benefit from attending my “Massaging Persons Living with Dementia” course first, it is not a pre-requisite. Participants can attend this later as part of their CPD to become more inclusive and dementia informed in their practice if they wish. Pre-requisite - for qualified or qualifying aromatherapists “When words escape us – the senses connect to our very essence.” This course is all about blending our aromatherapy and massage art with science to generate the best outcomes for clients who live with dementia. As well as sharing her specialist knowledge about therapeutic interventions for people who live with dementia, Nicolle will be encouraging you to bring your expertise, experience and knowledge to share with the group, be that in the form of studies, case studies, anecdotes or other sources. You will also be asked to bring along a minimum core of essential oils as well as encouraged to bring along your essential oil collection if you wish, to expand the group’s knowledge through playing with new ideas. We will take a close-up look at the benefits of essential oils and how they can improve the quality of life for a person living with dementia, explore gentle massage techniques, and prescribe essential oils in different mediums to best suit a client’s needs safely in a dementia informed way. Although participants would benefit from attending Nicolle’s Massaging Persons Living with Dementia course first, it is not a pre-requisite. Participants can attend this later as part of their CPD to become more inclusive and dementia informed in their practice if they wish. CORNWALL: You can book both the Massaging Persons Living with Dementia course, 0n October 18, 2024, and course and the Aromatherapy for Persons Living with Dementia course, on October 19, 2024, as a package for £350 (a saving of £50) – please choose the option on the checkout. BRISTOL: You can book both the Massaging Persons Living with Dementia course, 0n March 13, 2024, and course and the Aromatherapy for Persons Living with Dementia course, on March 14, 2024, as a package for £350 (a saving of £50) – please choose the option on the checkout. 1-1 TRAINING 1-1 training may be preferable because you would like a personal touch, 1-1 is your preferred style of learning or one of the planned dates does not suit you. 1-1 training provides you with flexibilty of training to suit your specific needs and goals. Please click on the 1-1 training button. It is a good idea to get in touch 1st so that you can confirm a date that is suitable for us both. You can book one-toone training here or by contacting Nicolle by email After successfully completing the course, either in a group or 1-1, qualified therapists will gain CPD points with one or more of the professional bodies. Carers and other professionals will receive a certificate of attendance. ‘The course was far wider than just massage and I have been trying things out with the dementia people in one of the care homes I visit with remarkable results. One lady who just sits and does not interact with anyone happily told us all about the war and what Windsor was like when she was a young girl’ JC, Massage Therapist, Fleet, Hants “An opportunity to learn how to enable people who have dementia feel comfortable about having massage & nurturing touch, learning specialist techniques that reflect understanding the world from your client or loved one’s perspective.”

Join us to learn how to make your very own miso, the ins and outs of koji making and taste some seriously unique and fab ferments

Our classroom training provides you the opportunity to interact with instructors and benefit from face-to-face instruction. For more queries, reach out to us: info@mangates.com

Our classroom training provides you the opportunity to interact with instructors and benefit from face-to-face instruction. For more queries, reach out to us: info@mangates.com

Our classroom training provides you the opportunity to interact with instructors and benefit from face-to-face instruction. For more queries, reach out to us: info@mangates.com

Join our Women in Insurance Leadership Workshop and gain insights from industry experts on how to succeed in the male-dominated insurance sector. This workshop is designed to empower women by providing valuable tools and resources to enhance leadership skills, build professional networks, and create a more inclusive workplace culture. Don't miss this opportunity to connect with other women in the industry and take your career to the next level. Register today!