Quality of care
empower them to provide outstanding care. This includes apprenticeships, qualifications and short courses, which are available from entry to degree level and beyond through continuous professional development (CPD). Specialist courses include dementia awareness learning and development, which aims to help healthcare professionals improve and refresh their knowledge of a condition that is expected to affect more than one million people in the UK by the year 2025.4 Another important area for further learning is end of life. Training in this area is intended to help carers build a vital understanding of how to communicate when someone needs this type of care.
Conclusion
If a care home partners with a training provider, they can go to them for advice on how to maximise their apprenticeship levy funds to help reduce staff turnover, improve employee satisfaction and develop a pipeline of talent to provide outstanding care.
A top training provider will also use a variety of methods to deliver training and development to a care home workforce. This can include
observations, one to one tutoring, distance learning, online portals and group sessions. Harnessing a number of these different methods using a tailored approach helps learners get the most from their training based on their strengths, qualities and preferred learning style.
To drive quality of care in the sector, care homes need to focus on training to ensure staff are up to date with the latest research and have the opportunity to further their careers. Therefore, it is hoped that we will see a significant increase in the number of carers with access to training in the future.
Fay Gibbin TCHE
References 1. Care Quality Commission. The State of Health Care and Adult Social Care in England 2017/18. [
www.cqc.org.uk/sites/default/ files/20171011_stateofcare1718_report.pdf].
2. Taylor J, Rigby N. (2018) Care job vacancies in England rise to 110,000. [
www.bbc.co.uk/ news/uk-england-45593814].
3. Skills for Care. (2018) The State of the Adult Social Care Sector and Workforce in England. [
www.skillsforcare.org.uk].
4. Alzheimer’s Research UK. Dementia Statistics Hub.
[
www.dementiastatistics.org/statistics- about-dementia/prevalence].
Fay Gibbin is chief executive officer at BB Training Academy, an award winning national training provider of quality apprenticeship and training programmes. Since 2003, Fay has been integral in delivering apprenticeship training and developing the Busy Bees Childcare workforce, providing a pipeline of talent in response to the ever changing needs of the company, as well as more recently expanding into independent training. Fay’s passion lies within the care industry and raising training and apprenticeship standards across the sector.
®
January 2019 •
www.thecarehomeenvironment.com
29
Page 1 |
Page 2 |
Page 3 |
Page 4 |
Page 5 |
Page 6 |
Page 7 |
Page 8 |
Page 9 |
Page 10 |
Page 11 |
Page 12 |
Page 13 |
Page 14 |
Page 15 |
Page 16 |
Page 17 |
Page 18 |
Page 19 |
Page 20 |
Page 21 |
Page 22 |
Page 23 |
Page 24 |
Page 25 |
Page 26 |
Page 27 |
Page 28 |
Page 29 |
Page 30 |
Page 31 |
Page 32 |
Page 33 |
Page 34 |
Page 35 |
Page 36 |
Page 37 |
Page 38 |
Page 39 |
Page 40 |
Page 41 |
Page 42 |
Page 43 |
Page 44 |
Page 45 |
Page 46 |
Page 47 |
Page 48
