Training and development

End of Life Care Essentials Collaborative Education Programme 

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Plymouth Health and Social Care Skills Partnership

The Health and Social Care Coordinators work to significantly increase workforce skills and improve recruitment and retention in the sector

To get in contact please email: HealthandCareSkills@plymouth.gov.uk

For more information please visit the Skills Launchpad Plymouth website: Home | Skills Launchpad Plymouth

Higher Development Award with City College Plymouth

Higher Development Award- Unlocking potential & being the best you can be

The award aims to build on the expansive knowledge support staff already hold, give further tools to increase awareness and improve service user outcomes.

• Flexibility- remain in their role whilst studying.
• Progression- for those seeking the next step in their career this offers a great platform to take that next step.
• Continue to provide the best possible care to service users based on increasing awareness of their role in organisations.

The fully funded Higher Development Award is made up of three parts. Completing studies and achieving an award, opportunity to take functional skills and take part in a service improvement project. It can be delivered face to face or online.

• Level 2- Principles of Team Leading
• Level 3- Leadership and management

City College Plymouth have availability to create a Level 2 or Level 3 starting in end of September. Let us know what would suit you and your team's needs and if you would like to be involved. Please contact us on Workforce training&education@devon.gov.uk or david.mcauley@nhs.net

Signposting To The Social Care Institute for Excellence E-Learning 

Many free courses available across a wide range of areas for staff at all levels 

Please visit e-Learning courses - SCIE

The Health and Social Care Skills Accelerator Programme 

The programme provides a variety of free, flexible learning and development opportunities

To access this free training (at any site), you must: 

• Have the right to live and work in the UK 
• Be over 18 years old 
• Live in a Devon post code area (Devon, Torbay and Plymouth) 

Find out more at the following links:

Proud to Care website

On Course South West 

For any enquiries please email info@oncoursesouthwest.co.uk

Introduction to Liberty Protection Safeguards

A short introduction and animation to explain the transition from DoLS to LPS is available on the eLearning for healthcare website

Free Medicine Management e-learning Courses

Domiciliary care e-learning courses on managing Medicines for adults receiving social care are now available to staff in your organisation.

For more information and registration details please see this leaflet 

Domiciliary Care Managing Medicines e-learning Courses (PDF, 709 KB)