Training
Evolving Care is committed to ensuring all staff are appropriately trained and competent.
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Anne Porter (Operations Manager) ensures all staff undertake and completes all training and development. Anne has over 25 years experience within Health & Social Care and is committed to ensuring health care workers and care workers are capable, confident and skilled when delivering services to the community.
In England, the Care Quality Commission’s (CQC) highlight the importance and value of strong and comprehensive induction. The Care Certificate (15 standards) are regulated by Skills for Care. These are the standards people working in adult social care need to meet before they can safely work unsupervised.
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In Wales, The Care Inspectorate for Wales (CIW) highlight the importance and value of strong and comprehensive induction. All new care workers have to be registered with the Social Care Wales within the first six months of employment. They have to be registered to complete the All Wales Induction Framework (AWIF) (7 standards).
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Each standard/workbook contains a number of areas of knowledge that care workers need to know before they can work unsupervised. Evolving Care have a duty to ensure new staff know enough to meet the required outcomes in each knowledge area. All training is updated anually.
In England, The Care Certificate 15 Standards are:
Standard 1:
​Understanding Your Role
Standard 3:
Duty Of Care
Standard 5:
Work in a person-centered way
Standard 7:
Privacy & Dignity
Standard 9:
Awareness of mental health, dementia, & learning disability
Standard 11:
Safeguarding children
Standard 13:
Health & Safety
Standard 2:
Your Personal Development
Standard 4:
Equality & Diversity
Standard 6:
Communication
Standard 8:
Fluids & Nutrition
Standard 10:
Safeguarding adults
Standard 12:
Basic life support
Standard 14:
Handling information
Standard 15:
Infection prevention & control
In Wales, The All Wales Induction Framework 7 Workbooks are:
Workbook 1:
Principles & values in health and social care (adults)​​
Workbook 3:
Health & wellbeing in health & social care (adults)​
Workbook 5:
Professional practice in health & social care ​
Workbook 2:
Principles & values in health and social care (children & young people)
Workbook 4:
Health & wellbeing in health & social care (children & young people)
Workbook 6:
Safeguarding individuals ​
Workbook 7:
Health & safety in health & social care​
Professional Development
We strongly believe in professional development and supporting people in the workplace to understand more about the environment in which they work, the job they do and how to do it better. It is an ongoing process throughout our working lives.
Our industry lives in a rapidly changing world where legislative, social and economic developments directly affect the environment in which we live and work, and where technological advances provide radically different ways of working. Professional Development opportunities provide a means whereby we can keep abreast of these changes, broaden our skills and be more effective in our work. At Evolving Care we try to create an environment where professional development is seen as part of a personal ambition making it more personally fulfilling.