Adult Social Care learning offer
We have a comprehensive learning and development programme and we encourage all providers to take up this offer. This can be your sole place of learning or you are welcome to use it in addition to your own source of training. The responsibility for ensuring the training of your staff is completed and the competence of these staff remains with you as the employer.
We follow the Skills for Care mandatory training and we expect all providers to ensure their staff meet this core and mandatory training and that refresher training follows their recommended timescales.
We also follow the Skills for Care minimum standards. All adult social care workers in England are expected to meet the standards set out in the Skills for Care Code of Conduct. It outlines the behaviours and attitudes that people who access care and support should rightly expect. It’s good practice to display this in your workplace.
We expect that all staff in a care role complete the Care Certificate within 12 weeks of starting in their role. The Care Certificate is an agreed set of standards that set out the knowledge, skills and behaviours expected of those new to the health and social care sectors. It describes the minimum things support workers must know and be able to do. It is also a Care Quality Commission (CQC) expectation that all employers should be offering it. We recommend you have a strategy for implementing the Care Certificate in your service. You can find a planning template on the Skills for Care website for this under minimum standards.
By registering on our learning management system, you will be able to access a whole suite of eLearning, virtual and face to face training courses.
We're also proud to support apprenticeships and we can provide qualifications in Adult Social Care from Level 2 up to Level 5 and continuous professional development programmes. We can also help you to claim from the Workforce Development Fund for accredited training.
Our Adult Social Care Team is here to support in your workforce development.
Please email learningcentral@centralbedfordshirecouncil.gov.uk for more information.