Continuous Professional Development

A Customer's condition can change or deteriorate at any time while we are caring for them. that is why we continually reasses each care package to ensure that our carers are fully equipped to deal with the changing situation.

At Care in Hand we want our carers to improve and update their skills therefore we have a large number of bespoke training packages covering the different conditions are carers are asked to support.  

This is the current list of additional training available for our Carers; it changes and grows based on our customers' and our carers' needs:

Abuse

Ageism

Alzeheimer's Disease

Arthritis

Asthmatic

Autism

Bi-polar

Brain Haemorrhage

Brain Injury

Brain Tumour

Cancer

Brittle Bone

Cerebral Palsy

Challenging Behaviour

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

Common Ailments in Older People

Communication with Adult Service Users

Complex Care Mangement

Continence Promotion

Dementia

Depression

Diabetic Diet and Insulin Control

Downs Syndrome

Dyshasia

Dual Sensory Impairment

Epilepsy

Eye and Ear Drop Administration

Falls in Older People

Foot Care (Basic)

Head Injury

Heart Condition

Hiatus Hernia

Huntington's Disease

Incontinence

Infectious or Contagious Diseases

Learning Disabilities

Mental Health Problems

Motor Neurone Disease

Mulitple Sclerosis

Muscular Dystrophy

Osteoporosis

Palliative Care and Breavement

Parkinsons

PEG Fed

Physical Disability

Pressure Sores

Promotion of Care Practice

Reminiscence

Short Term Memory Loss

Special Communication Needs

Spinal Bifida

Spinal Injury / Paraplegic / Quadraplegic/ Tetraplegic

Spinal Tumour

Stoma

Stroke

Urinary Track Infections 

 

Senior care staff and qualified nurses are encouraged and supported to complete annual continuous professional development (CPD), by attending both internal and external training events locally and regionally. These events include Royal College of Nursing (RCN) events and Social Care Workforce Development Partnership training and events.

Care in Hand is also an independent further and higher education centre, accredited by the British Accreditation Council www.the-bac.org and offers qualificationsaccreditied by the Chartered Institute of Environmental Help www.cieh.org