HCPA – Future Funded Projects

1. HCPA – Future Funded Projects April 2011/March 2012 Presented by: Sharon Davies, Workforce Development Manager

2. This year once again Hertfordshire Providers are able to access training funding. • Are you making the most of funding available?

3. HCPA funded Workforce Development • Listening to your needs • Providing choice and equity • Responding to National Drivers AND Local Need • Making it simple! • Traffic Light system • Green Fully Funded • Amber Part or Co Funded • Red not funded but worth it!

4. Utilising the HCC 2011/12 Grant • Mandatory/Specialist Training • Short Qualifications • Open Courses • Activities Project • Learning Champions Project • Teambuilding Project • PA Specific Inductions • Coaching • Mentoring for Apprentices • Train the Trainer in PCP in Dignity into Care • Teamleader courses

5. Co-funded! Mandatory/Specialist Training • We will be able to offer to support 24 courses including Dignity into Care and Falls and Fragility. • Funding will be at £20 per head for a half day (2-5 hours) and £40 for a full day (over 5 hours in duration). • Each organisation will be capped for the first half of the grant to £2000. • These changes have been instigated to allow for people to have a choice of shorter or longer training sessions to meet varying needs.

6. Administration of Medication • Autism • Basic First Aid • Basic Food Hygiene • Care of the Dying/Palliative Care • Challenging Behaviour • Continence care • Dementia awareness • Dignity into Care • Epilepsy • Equality & Diversity inc DDA

7. Courses Covered • Administration of Medication • Autism • Basic First Aid • Basic Food Hygiene • Care of the Dying/Palliative Care • Challenging Behaviour • Continence care • Dementia awareness • Dignity into Care • Epilepsy • Equality & Diversity inc DDA • Falls and Fragility • Fire safety • H&S • Infection Control • Mental Capacity Act/Deprivation of Liberty • Moving & Handling • Nutrition and Diet • Parkinsons • Person Centred Care Planning • Safeguarding of Vulnerable Adults/Children • Sensory Impairment • Staff Supervision • Strokes and Stroke Care

8. Fully Funded! Short Qualifications • These qualifications will be run by HCPA Approved Training Suppliers. • Courses will be put on at strategic locations across the county and at regular intervals throughout the year. • Qualifications in First Aid, Dementia, H&S • Funding will be paid direct to the training suppliers to ensure care providers do not have to deal with paperwork. • See Short Courses in the hcpa website www.hcpa.info

9. Fully Funded! Open Courses • In response to the need to send just one or two staff members on training, HCPA will be asking Approved Training Providers to put on a number of open courses this especially helps to meet the needs of smaller care providers who cannot fill a course themselves. • These will be put on to cover areas of identified need such as supervision, dementia and autism. • Fully Funded Open courses will start in July • See Fully Funded Open Courses on the hcpa website www.hcpa.info • Note: it should be noted that non funded open courses are also advertised on the HCPA website - see Open Courses

10. Activities Project • We will no longer be  providing raising awareness training but will be helping Activity Coordinators to become the ‘expert in their field’ within their own organisations.

11. Fully Funded! New Projects around activities • There is going to be an opportunity for learners to gain a NOCN Level 3 Certificate in Activity Provision in Social Care (QCF). • We will be creating Activity Leaders by introducing them to a year round programme of events that will enable them, as leaders, to motivate and stimulate both service users and staff teams by working with Ladder to the Moon. Application forms are available on the Ladder to the Moon stand in the exhibition area. • We will be running Mini Event Facilitated Programmes to enable activity helpers or care staff with Activities responsibilities to put on a highly motivational event. Application forms are available on the Ladder to the Moon stand. • We will be looking into the area of physical activity and how to introduce this with confidence by offering people to become key trainers – please give your details to the HCPA stand on the expression of interest form. • HCPA will facilitate ‘Newly Trained Ladder to the Moon Activity Leaders’ to form peer groups so that they can share best practice and  challenges as well as pass on knowledge to new untrained staff in all organisations.

12. NOT Funded! Common Induction Standards • In line with National Drivers HCPA will not be allocating any money to Common Induction Standards (CIS) as there is a clear message from Government indicating that care providers must provide their own basic training and only cpd should be supported.

13. Fully Funded! Learning Champion Project • To ensure that there is an extension to the numbers in the Learning Champions network, HCPA plans to train a further 24 Learning Champions in Level 3 Training Management. This will enhance the numbers of organisations who have a good understanding of how to support staff development and may help towards building internal capacity for training - as Learning Champions often choose to go on to take a PTLLS course and set up internal training that can then be funded.

14. Fully Funded! Teambuilding Project • Once an organisation has a Learning Champion they can book ‘Building Better Teams’ courses to enable staff teams to understand each other and offer better service. • This course is an introductory course and can be used as a basis for coaching or supervision for on-going development of team dynamics. • Individuals will:- • leave with a clear outline of their own strengths and the way in which they are perceived by others • be able to recognize that not all people are the same and it is often easier to change your approach when dealing with others • be able to take forward the jigsaw approach using personality colours to discuss future challenges

15. Fully Funded! PA Specific Inductions • Of Interest to Home Care Providers who want to become registered under HCPA’s Quality Assurance Scheme to provide ‘Personal Assistants’ to people with Direct Payments. • This year the only induction money will be spent on providing PA induction courses. These will include 4 day courses for brand new staff and 1 day conversion courses for care workers already providing home care.

16. Fully Funded! Coaching Qualifications • HCPA will be running courses for people to undertake a Level 3 in coaching qualification. We are aware that this training is needed to support staff managing supervision in care. • The pilot in Sept will be run for Learning Champions. • Sign the expression of interest form on the hcpa stand

17. Fully Funded! Mentoring for Organisations Employing Apprentices • This is building on from the important lessons learned in the hcpa apprentice project and will ensure that apprentices are fully supported in the workplace. This will be mapped to the QCF units in mentoring and hcpa may seek approval to run this as an accredited course.

18. Fully Funded! Train the Trainer in PCP in Dignity into Care • To support the drive to engage more dignity into care, HCPA will be running a number of 1 day Train the Trainer days (these will be for internal trainers already holding PTLLS). • These courses will start in August • If you do not have PTLLS – this can be accessed for fully funded through HTDC • For Train the Trainer Person Centred Planning or PTLLS sign the expression of interest form on the HCPA stand.

19. Fully Funded! Making the Difference courses • This course is for Team Leaders • This will be a 3 day course run by HCPA over 3 months and will include: • Creating a Great Customer Care Culture • Setting up an Internal Excellence Scheme • ‘Practically’ Meeting the Outcomes • The first course starts in July – sign the expression of interest form on the HCPA stand

20. Cancellation Policy • It should be noted that in line with the HCC cancellation policy. All HCPA courses will have a fee attached if booked staff do not attend. • This will be sent to you at the time of booking.

21. Other initiatives outside of this grant • SCILS • E-Learning • TSI now Workforce Development Fund • NSA – Leadership franchise • HCC Calendar of events (open courses)

22. Fully Funded! SCILS • Bite sized distance Learning • Learn how to use the excellent Personal Development Plan tool to track the learning of your staff • Get your log in from HCPA – simply send an email • See it in action on the SCILS stand

23. Fully Funded! E-Learning • Log into our website e-learning page to find out about all the free resources available • When should you use e-learning • 1. When you identify an urgent need (perhaps through supervision) • 2. To introduce a course that will be taken to a higher level in face to face training • 3. To give to your staff as homework following a face to face training • 4. To ascertain knowledge gaps

24. Fully Funded! e-learning • HCC Courses include: • Nutrition Awareness • Safe Administration of Medication for Home Care • Equality and Diversity • Infection Control • Dementia • Deprivation of Liberties • Enablement • Mental Capacity Act • Self Directed Support • Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults

25. Fully Funded! SCIE e-learning • SCIE courses include: • Managing knowledge to improve social care • Personalisation • Fair Access to Care Services • The Open Dementia Programme • Managing risk, minimising restraint • Interprofessional and inter-agency collaboration • Law and Social Work • Communication Skills • An introduction to residential child care • Children of prisoners • Poverty, Parenting and Social Exclusion • An introduction to the Mental Health of Older People • It should be noted that these do not have assessments...but there is no reason you cannot make your own

26. Part Funded! TSI QCF Qualifications • Find out about these in the presentation scheduled to start at 2pm

27. Part Funded! Leadership Qualifications • This is an initiative run by the National Skills Academy using a course designed by Sheffield University to help leaders gain high level management knowledge and will be trained by accredited HCPA trainers. • Courses will begin at the end of the year • Go to the HCPA stand to register your interest

28. Part Funded! ...More Leadership Training • £20m Management training fund to help small businesses • The government has set up a new Leadership and Management Advisory Service to help eligible employers identify and fund development opportunities for their senior leaders. • The aim of the service is to foster the leadership and management skills of senior staff so they can make full use of their workforce and accelerate the growth of their business.For more information contact the Leadership and Management Advisory Service, through www.businesslink.gov.uk

29. Fully Funded! HCC Training Calendar • The Calendar is available to all care providers in Hertfordshire • You can get an electronic copy to download from our website http://www.hcpa.info/members/pages/484/fully_funded_open_courses • or by emailing   PVI.learning@hertscc.gov.uk

30. Here’s a saving for your training budget! Bag yourself a new member of staff who is fully trained under the HCPA Apprentice Project • In August we will have 8 young people who have undergone the full apprenticeship programme – this means you do not have to give them either induction or mandatory training. • If you are interested in interviewing these young people please contact hcpa via email or register your interest on the hcpa stand

31. Make use of the Members Meetings to keep your cpd up • Next meeting 15th June – Theme: Dementia

32. Forgotten it all already? See the HCPA website members meetings • We hope you make FULL use of this training offer.