Training and Further Development

Care and Compassion Agency provide a quality service to our clients, service users and families by ensuring that our clinical and non-clinical staffing meet the specific criteria and are trained to the highest calibre.

It is a national requirement for any staff who wish to work within the healthcare sector to comply with CQC guidelines, and training is one of the legal requirements.

Skills for Care / Common Inductions

All our courses are designed to meet the learning outcomes set by skills for care. Our package covers the following courses:

  • Role of the health and social care worker
  • Personal development
  • Communicate effectively
  • Principles for implementing duty of care
  • Principles of safeguarding in health and social care
  • Person-centred care
  • Equality and inclusion
  • Health and safety in an adult social care setting

Mandatory Training

  • Manual Handling
  • Infection Control and Food Hygiene
  • Safeguarding of Vulnerable Adults
  • Health and Safety including Fire Safety and COSHH
  • Risk Assessment
  • Handling Patient Information

Specialist Training Offered

  • Medication Awareness / Medication Administration
  • Dementia and Alzheimer’s Awareness
  • Stoma Awareness and Care
  • PEG training and Pump Monitoring
  • Documentation training, fluid charts and daily log sheets
  • PMVA
  • Learning Disabilities and Autism Awareness
  • Palliative Care, Death Dying and Bereavement
  • First Aid and CPR
  • Epilepsy Awareness
  • Continence Care