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Training

 

Our Centre of Excellence

All of our carers are fully trained in house at Care By Us, to a very high standard. This programme commences with their standard induction training, which all applicants must complete and pass before working as carers with care by us. This includes:

• Catheter care / Continence care / Stoma care
• Effective communication
• Emergency Response
• Equality and Diversity
• Food Hygiene· Health and Safety
• Infection Prevention and Control
• Medication· Moving and Handling
• Personal Development· Personal Care
• Person-centred care and support
• Safeguarding (SOVA) and Duty of Care
• Mental Capacity Act/Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DOLS)
• Specialist Dementia· Enablement

Once initially trained, our carers undertake an ongoing training programme that includes:

• QCF (previously NVQ) Opportunities
• Refresher Training Courses
• Food hygiene and control
• Health and Safety
• Medication
• Mental Capacity Act/ DOLS
• Moving and Handling
• Safeguarding
• Working with Children

We also offer, and support our carers through, specialist training courses both internally and externally. These include:

• Autism
• Challenging Behaviour
• Epilepsy Awareness
• Palliative Care (internal courses – and Distance learning extension courses)
• Gastrostomy Feeding (specific to the PEG site of individual Service Users and arranged with District Nurses, Nutricia Nurses and Abbots Nurses)
• Senior Carer Training
• Working With Children
• Diabetes Awareness
• Stroke Awareness
• MAPA Training (Management of Actual and Potential Aggression)