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Sleep Solutions for Paediatric Healthcare Professionals (6 Months - 6 Years) Healthcare Training Course
This training course, in collaboration with Millpond Sleep Clinic, is designed for health and allied professionals who work with young families, including health visitors, nursery nurses, early years practitioners, social workers, paediatricians, occupational therapists, and speech therapists.
Delegates will gain a deeper understanding of sleep science, learn practical strategies to support families, and develop the confidence to address common sleep challenges in children aged 6 months to 6 years.
Sleep is essential for a baby and child's health, development, and emotional well-being, yet sleep difficulties are common, leaving many families struggling to find the right support.
This one-day sleep awareness workshop provides health professionals with up-to-date, evidence-based knowledge on children’s sleep needs, patterns, and cycles, as well as common behavioural sleep challenges in children aged 6 months to 6 years.
Designed to enhance both theoretical and practical understanding, the workshop equips professionals with the confidence and skills to support parents struggling with their child’s sleep. It covers comprehensive sleep assessment techniques, including sleep history and sleep diary use, and introduces evidence-based interventions to promote healthy sleep habits.
Through an engaging, interactive format, delegates will explore key sleep challenges, such as bedtime resistance, night wakings, and early rising, while learning gentle, responsive approaches to improving sleep.
Accredited for 6 CPD hours, this training provides practical strategies that professionals can apply immediately in their daily practice, empowering families with effective sleep support.
- CPD Points: 6
- Training Course Category: Healthcare
- Training Course Duration: 1
- Training Course Location: Virtual, online or classroom-based
By the end of the workshop, delegates will be able to:
- Understand typical sleep patterns, cycles, and needs in babies and young children.
- Identify and assess common childhood sleep difficulties and their impact on families.
- Support parents in establishing good sleep hygiene and provide preventative strategies to reduce sleep issues.
- Conduct a comprehensive sleep assessment, including sleep history-taking and sleep diary analysis.
- Implement evidence-based sleep interventions to manage behavioural sleep challenges in young children.
- The Importance of Sleep – Why sleep is essential and the impact of sleep deprivation on children.
- Understanding Sleep – Exploring sleep needs, evolving sleep patterns, and the science of sleep, including a children’s sleep needs activity.
- Common Sleep Issues – Identifying factors that interfere with sleep, such as inappropriate sleep onset associations, anxiety, and fears.
- Improving Children's Sleep – Establishing bedtime routines and sleep hygiene, including a practical bedtime planning activity.
- Sleep Solutions – Gentle, evidence-based interventions like gradual retreat, delayed sleep phase, and case study group work.
- Supporting Night-Time Sleep – supporting night feeds, naps, and napping challenges.
- Understanding chronotypes, early rising, and delayed sleep phases.
- Differentiating between nightmares and night terrors, including quiz.
- Delegates will use case studies to apply theoretical knowledge, practice sleep assessments, and develop tailored sleep intervention plans.
