Training and career development
Initial training for new carers
All new members of staff will receive initial induction training within the first 14 days of appointment to their posts. This training shall include moving and handling awareness, basic personal care skills, code of conduct, terms of employment, cultural awareness, gifts and bequeaths, limits of authority, quality assurance, health and safety, safeguarding, food safety awareness and infection control awareness.
Skills for Care Standards
Induction training to the Skills for Care Standards shall also be provided within 12 weeks of appointment. This shall include the role of the health and social care worker, equality and inclusion, pronciples for implementing duty of care, principles of safeguarding in health and social care, person-centred support, health and safety in an adult social care setting.
Management and Supervisory Staff
All management and supervisory staff will also receive training within the first 12 weeks of appointment in (as their job role dictates), recruitment and selection, supervision and performance appraisal, health and safety for managers, risk and manual handling risk assessment, monitoring practices and quality assurance.
Additional Training
All staff are required to undertake the equivalent of an NVQ (now Qualifications and Credit Framework) Level 2 and are encouraged to progress through levels 3 and 4 as appropriate. Awareness of specialist areas of care is incorporated into the Induction Training. Additional advanced training in these areas should begin within six months of appointment for all senior care workers, and according to the needs and interests of all other staff.
Career Development
Training needs are evaluated, and priorities identified, as part of each employee's annual appraisal. They are then incorporated into that employee's Personal Development Plan.
I absolutely love the clients I work with - they are all lovely and I really enjoy the work that I do with them. I feel like I am doing something truly worthwhile.
Louise, carer.
