Solicitors conference in Exeter will support Headway Devon
Outer Temple Chambers will be holding their annual clinical negligence conference in Exeter and donating all proceeds from the event to Headway Devon. The conference is scheduled to take place on Monday 18th June 2012 at the University of Exeter’s Peter Chalk Centre. According to the organisers, the conference will be of interest to both [...]
Wide range of speakers is highly praised by delegates at Devon conference
Headway Devon held its popular annual conference and exhibition, The Cost of Brain Injury, on 14th October with the kind support of Irwin Mitchell. Over 60 Brain injury professionals and charity workers from across the South West attended the day at Exeter’s Sandy Park Conference Centre. As always, the conference offered a stage for speakers [...]
2011 Regional Conference: The Cost of Brain Injury
Our 2011 conference takes place at Sandy Park on the 14th October. For more details, click here.
2011 Conference – The Cost of Brain Injury
This year’s conference is at Sandy Park on the 14th October, kindly supported by Irwin Mitchell Solicitors. The speakers are: Dr Phil Yates Polly Sweeney Dr Andrew Bateman Nigel Lyons A presentation from carers Registration for delegates starts at 9:30 and coffee will be available on arrival. Refreshments and lunch will be served in the [...]
Disability Awareness Programme Day One – Understanding Brain Injury
The first day of a two-day course designed to give an overview of acquired brain injury for anyone working with people with acquired brain injuries. This participative workshop has been designed for professionals who need a better understanding and awareness of the problems and needs of adults with acquired brain injuries. Acquired brain injury can [...]
Disability Awareness Programme Day Two – Living With Brain Injury
The second day of a two-day course designed to give an overview of acquired brain injury for anyone working with people with acquired brain injuries. This day looks in more detail at the consequences of acquired brain injury and the challenges they present to people’s social, family and working lives, building on topics discussed during [...]
Professionals working with people with brain injuries
Headway Devon works with a wide range of professionals who come into contact with people with brain injuries, including personal injury solicitors, social workers, medical students and police officers. Learning opportunities If you would like to gain a better understanding of brain injury and its effects, as well as looking at the most effective ways [...]
Learning opportunities
As well as providing an extensive in-house training programme for our outreach and centre staff and volunteers, we also offer packages for other agencies and individuals who are working with people with brain injuries. We offer a two-day disability awareness programme, raising awareness and understanding of acquired brain injury, that anybody whose work brings them [...]
Work for us
If you’re looking for a rewarding career that makes a real difference to the lives of local people, then a job with Headway Devon may be for you. For over fifteen years we have been providing a lifeline to people whose worlds have been turned upside down by brain injury, as well as their families [...]
Additional Training Sessions
These modules complement the disability awareness days to form a full programme of training in all aspects of working with people who have an acquired brain injury. All Headway Devon staff are expected to complete this programme. These sessions look at specific issues and examine them in more detail, allowing learners the opportunity to evaluate [...]
