Carer Training & Development Opportunities

Key Stages of Our Carer Learning and Development Programme

The key stages to the Trinity Homecare learning and development programme include:

Trinity Induction and Care Certificate Pathway for all new starters and those new to the care industry.
Trinity Mandatory Training programme for all care workers, ensuring your skills and knowledge is kept up to date
Special conditions learning programmes and workshops
Trinity Distance learning programmes, for those wishing to further their knowledge and gain certificate level qualifications in care.
Specialist training for those in nurse led placements
Level 2 & 3 Diplomas in Adult Social Care
Trinity Management Development Programme for office team members and those progressing from care to management roles.

First Aid training with the resus CPR Manikin

Carer Learning: Key Stages

All Homecare Assistants and front-line care staff employed through our managed care service will undertake the Trinity Homecare Care Certificate if they have not previously completed this. The Care Certificate provides a passport to a career in health and social care.

Our Care Certificate training course takes place through a blended learning approach. In addition to e-learning, practical training sessions take place at our dedicated training centre and is led by one of our qualified trainers.

The training includes the following modules:

Understanding your role
Your personal development
Duty of care
Equality and diversity
Working in a person-centred way
Communication
Privacy and dignity
Fluids and nutrition
Awareness of mental health, dementia and learning disabilities
Safeguarding adults
Safeguarding children
Basic life support
Health and safety
Handling information
Infection prevention and control
Medication*
Moving & Handling*
Pressure ulcer awareness*
Oral Care*
Continence management and catheter care*

*These are additional modules over and above the 15 standards set out by Skills for Care Care Certificate Pathway

Our Mandatory Care Assistant Training Pathway is a legislative obligation that we have to ensure that you remain compliant and confident in your training over time. Our Mandatory Care Assistant Training Pathway can be completed at our training centre or you can work remotely via e-learning.

The objectives of our Mandatory Care Assistant Training Pathway are:

To deliver refresher and top-up training to ensure that staff have the skills and knowledge to deliver care to a high standard
To benchmark staff against the Care Certificate standards, and where skills and knowledge are deficient, top up by training and development
To ensure full compliance with the Health & Social Care Act

Typical modules include:

Basic life support
Medication management
Moving and handling of people and loads
Infection prevention and control
Health and safety
Safeguarding of adults
Food Safety Level 1
Handling information and record keeping

Our distance learning is offered in partnership with Nescot College and the objectives of the course are:

To provide specialist care training tailored to our client needs
To provide a pathway to Level 2 diplomas in Adult Social Care

The course requires completion of modules which includes but is not limited to:

Dementia training
Palliative and end-of-life care
Safeguarding of adults
Medication management
Mental health awareness

At Trinity Homecare, we have formed close partnerships with nurses and community support services to develop our carers’ knowledge and skills for specialist care, including PEG feeding and epilepsy support, and other nurse led services.

Dementia care – special conditions

The Homecare Association and the Alzheimer’s Society worked in partnership to create a ‘Dementia Training for Homecare’ course, which contains five modules. The course is designed to support home care assistants as they develop their knowledge and understanding of all aspects of dementia care. We’re proud to offer this opportunity to our care staff and this dementia training course is available to all of our care teams. We offer this course in person at our training centre, and online.

Levels 2 & 3 Diplomas in Adult Social Care

The opportunity to pursue a Diploma in Adult Social Care is available to Care Assistants who have successfully completed their Advanced Care Training. The work completed for the Advanced Care Training course will count towards the Level 2 & 3 Diploma and not only is this an opportunity to develop your knowledge and skills, but Trinity recognises your development with increased pay and incentives.

The objectives of the Trinity Management Development Programme are to:

Enable learning for our office team
Facilitate meaningful personal development
Help people to identify and achieve their own personal potential

The Management Development Programme comprises mandatory and optional training depending on need and role. Typical modules may include:

Team leadership
Objective setting
Conflict resolution
Building resilience and sustainable team performance
Motivating your team
Challenging conversations an effective communication
Employee engagement
Time management
Effective supervision

The very best service from the best people

At Trinity Healthcare, we understand that many of us simply want to provide care and enrich the lives of others to the very best of our ability, and that gaining qualifications may not be your main motivation for your career in care. However, carer training and learning helps us to ensure the very best service from the best people for all of our customers, and we always strive to continually develop and improve.