TRAINING & EDUCATION CARE UPGRADED


At a time when the care sector is under severe strain and its carers are increasingly feeling burned out, Eammon Price, CEO of Flourish, says that technology can be the way to break this vicious cycle.


Having grown up in a family of carers and social workers, I’ve seen first-hand the pressures that they face, and this has only increased in recent years.


The sector is locked into a vicious cycle with stress causing staff shortages, which leads to rising workloads, which creates more stress, which causes even more staff shortages, and so on.


Is it any wonder that a quarter of the adult social care workforce rate their life satisfaction as low?


The sector is losing carers to low pay, stress and burnout faster than it can bring them in, and those leſt behind are exhausted, overwhelmed and don’t have the time in their days for training and development, let alone caring for themselves.


With an ageing population, we need more skilled, healthy and happy carers than ever before, so if we can’t improve retention rates, this is a crisis that will affect every one of us.


HOW WE CAN CARE FOR THE CARERS


At Flourish, we are passionate about making a real difference to the lives and careers of people working in the care sector. We’ve built easy-to-use online platforms for training and staffing, creating a connected community for carers where everyone can thrive.


We support more than 130,000 carer professionals, and we are uniquely placed to drive meaningful change, setting higher standards, innovating responsibly and creating positive ripple effects.


We firmly believe that technology is the answer to the workforce challenges the care sector is facing. Carers don’t have enough time for in-person training and development, so technology’s ability to impart knowledge efficiently is the best way to support them.


Our Click Learning platform delivers 180 plus courses, including CPD-accredited and mandatory training courses for adult social care. Developed in partnership with sector experts, our courses


“Carers don’t have enough time for in- person training and development, so technology’s ability to impart


knowledge efficiently is the best way to support them.”


We’ve also now added Flourish Wellbeing, an app that offers carers support across areas like sleep, finances, anxiety, relationships and healthy eating, helping them build up resilience with person- centred tools and resources for the issues they identify as challenging for them.


This is how technology can make a difference and break the cycle of burnout in our sector. It won’t ever replace the human element, but it can help carers feel better able to do what they signed up for when they joined the sector – caring for others.


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help carers stay compliant, confident and up to date. Most importantly, they can access it flexibly without it adding even more time pressure to their working days.


TAKING DEVELOPMENT TO THE NEXT LEVEL


But our carers need more than just the chance to upskill and look aſter their professional compliance. That’s why Flourish offers them free access to rewards and wellbeing platforms to help them look aſter their own self-care.


Flourish Rewards is a discounts platform built into Click Learning for all users, giving them hundreds of discounts on the things that matter most – the weekly shop, booking a break, home improvements, and more. It’s our way of saying thank you to those who go the extra mile for the rest of us.


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