In our daily lives and work, we all use advocacy skills, often without realising it. Using advocacy skills in practical healthcare settings can help with meaningful engagement, enabling advocacy partners we are working alongside to find and amplify their voices.
This training has been designed for frontline healthcare and support practitioners working directly with patients and service users in health and community healthcare settings. It's likely to be suitable for healthcare assistants, nurses across a range of settings, community and mental health support staff, care coordinators, patient-facing support roles and allied health professionals such as occupational therapists. speech and language therapists, physiotherapists, dieticians and rehabilitation teams.
Advocacy in Healthcare Settings explained:
Applying advocacy in healthcare settings enables us to understand how to promote the views, wishes and feelings of our advocacy partners more effectively, empowering them towards enhanced self-advocacy. This training explores how to engage and empower advocacy partners in healthcare settings, strengthen communication and advocacy skills, and support informed, rights-based decision-making while navigating barriers, boundaries and complex systems.
Course content
Upon completion of this training, learners will:
- Develop a clear understanding of advocacy in healthcare settings.
- Recognise how to channel your skills to engage and empower advocacy partners towards self-advocacy in healthcare settings.
- Explore barriers, boundaries and the balance between wishes, feelings, and best interests.
- Reflect when, where, and how to use engaging healthcare advocacy skills effectively.
- Consider and understand when to effectively signpost advocacy partners to other services or support.
This Advocacy in Healthcare Settings training will be delivered via a live, interactive webinar. The training session will be delivered by a member of our highly experienced training team.
NYAS is a leading, national rights-based charity who deliver a range of services, including appropriate adults and age assessments, to children across England and Wales. We have practical experience within this training area, and your learning will be supported by our expert guidance and a supporting handbook.
Please contact us via [email protected] for information about our 2026 training dates for this course, or to discuss bespoke developments for your team.
