Induction Training

All staff new to care work must successfully complete a five day training course to ensure they understand the needs and expectations of the service user; how to promote independence; their right to dignity, respect, individuality and choice. Care workers will also know and understand their responsibility for working competently within the workforce. This training incorporates the following Skills for Care Induction Standards:

Standard 1 – Role of the health and social care worker Responsibilities and limits
Working in ways that are agreed with your employer
The importance of working in partnership with others
Be able to handle information in agreed ways

Standard 2 – Personal Development
Competence in your work role within the sector
Reflective Practice
Evaluating own performance
Producing a personal development plan
Using learning opportunities and reflective practice to contribute to personal development

Standard 3 – Communicate effectively
Importance of effective communication in the work setting
Meeting the communication and language needs, wishes and preferences of individuals
Overcoming difficulties in promoting communication
Understand principles and practices relating to confidentiality

Standard 4 – Equality and Inclusion
The value and the importance of equality and inclusion
Providing inclusive support
Access information, advice and support about equality and inclusion

Standard 5 – Principles for implementing duty of care
Understand how duty of care contributes to safe practice
Know how to address dilemmas that may arise between an individuals rights and the duty of care
Know how to recognise and handle comments and complaints
Know how to recognise and handle adverse events, incidents, errors and near misses

Standard 6 – Principles of safeguarding in health and social care
Recognising signs of harm or abuse
Ways to reduce likelihood of abuse
Responding to suspected or disclosed abuse
National and local context of protection from harm and abuse

Standard 7 – Person Centred Support
Promote person-centred values in everyday work
Working in a person-centred way
Recognising possible signs of dementia
Supporting active participation
Supporting an individuals rights to make choices
Promoting spiritual and emotional well-being

Standard 8 – Health & safety in an adult social care setting
Roles and responsibilities relating to health and safety in the work setting / situation
Health and safety risk assessments
Moving and positioning
Responding to accidents and sudden illness
Agreed ways of working regarding medication and health care tasks
Handling hazardous substances
Preventing the spread of infection
Promoting fire safety in the work setting
Security measures in the work setting
Managing stress
Food safety, nutrition and hydration

In addition to the 5 days initial training staff are asked to attend our specialist courses and encouraged to do additional courses which are communicated by newsletter and flyers sent with payslips