Our Courses & Tailored-made Training
The Company was founded on the principles of developing and delivering high-quality training. We specialises in community-based training with national-level training courses for those individuals and professionals working within the health and social care sector. Also as a pathway progression for care workers towards continuing professional development (CPD).
Health & Social Care
The training in health and social care provides the requisite knowledge and skills for care professionals to improve on their work performance, interpersonal skills and abilities. It provides adult learners with the tools necessary to prepare the highest care quality, develop good portfolio in their own area of work, able to conduct polished person-centred care briefings and to communicate in all situations with clarity, confidence, poise and presence. This community-based training shapes the “promote-able employee.”
Training content
Most courses run by academic institutions tend to be unit-disciplinary and classroom based or undertaken during work placements. However, there is an increasing acknowledgement of the value of multidisciplinary training, especially in practical work-based settings. Many courses now contain a practical component. Simulation is also becoming popular as a training approach.
Continuing professional development training appears to be growing at a faster rate than university education. Ongoing education includes workshops, online courses, collaborative and ad-hoc training are set up to support specific improvement in service delivery. There is a growing trend for training which supports participants to put what they have learned into practice or to learn key skills ‘on the job’.
Most training programmes tends to concentrate on specific components of care quality improvement, such as leadership and patient safety. In recent years, UK health and social care courses have started to recognise the importance of population health and risk assessment, but relatively few programmes emphasise the needs and perspectives of service users in any real depth in community-based settings.
The impact of our community-based training approach
A great deal has been developed and written about training care professionals to improve quality in healthcare. However, the majority merely describe training approaches and content, rather than examining the impacts of training or the most useful content and training methods in a community-based setting.
It is evident that in a community-based setting, training learners and health professionals in care quality improvement may improve knowledge, skills and attitudes. Care processes are also improved in some instances. However, the impact on patient health outcomes, resource use and the overall quality of care remains uncertain.
Evaluation
Most evaluations of care training focus on perceived changes in knowledge rather than delving deeper into the longer-term outcomes for health professionals and patients. Our community-based training programmes incorporates practical exercises and work-based activities and are increasing in popularity, and evaluations of these approaches are more likely to find positive changes in care processes and patient outcomes.
There is not a body of evidence assessing whether training professionals is any more or less effective for improving the quality of healthcare other than community-based training initiatives.
The effectiveness of different methods
Few studies have directly compared different training methods. This means that there is insufficient evidence to conclude whether classroom formats, practical projects, online modules or other methods are more or less effective. However, in a community-based setting active learning strategies, the participants put quality improvement into practice, which are thought to be more effective than didactic classroom styles alone.
It appears important to adopt community-based training approach methods in delivering both pre-qualifications in care training and CPD. It is also useful to adopt this approach to upskill trainers so that they can teach care quality improvement methods robustly.