Mandatory Training

POVA (Protection of Vulnerable Adults) Staff Training
Candidates attending the POVA course will gain a basic knowledge of the forms and symptoms of abuse and it should be dealt with. Key components include:

What is POVA?: service users charter of rights, definition of abuse, types of abuse
signs and symptoms, who are the abusers, alerting and reporting, referral taking
whistle blowing and recruitment

Fire Safety for the Carer Training
This fire awareness-training course has been designed to give personnel the necessary information, knowledge and training for them to be competent in basic fire safety.

What does the fire safety training pack?
Elements of fire, common causes of fire, the spread of fire, fire prevention (safety), priorities, be aware that fire kills, before you tackle a fire, where do you expect to see an extinguisher, maintenance, extinguishers and their uses, types of extinguisher (colour coding), fire classification, a fire survival guide, protect your home from fire, fire safety checklist for care homes and fire safety law

Food Hygiene and Safety Awareness Training
You'll learn about all aspects of hygiene – from keeping your workplace, equipment (and yourself!) Clean, to minimising the risk of producing harmful foods. All the knowledge you need, in fact, to prepare food safely. You'll also cover the statutory and legal obligations of both employers and employees. You will learn about bacteria, viruses, food-born diseases, how food is contaminated, food poisoning, temperatures, colour coded cutting boards, pest control, cleaning & disinfection, work surfaces, the law and food handlers.

Safe Handling of Medicine
The course is covered in three parts, each pack is self-contained and comprises of:
1. The required knowledge.
2. A set of candidate questions.
3. A set of answers to the questions for the trainer.
4. A certificate that may be issued to the candidate when the answers to the questions meet the trainer's requirements

You will be looking at several areas that need to be understood in the safe handling of medicine. The three packs cover the following subject matter:

1. The Law - Legislation and Medication.
2. The Control and Administration of Medicine.
3. Medicine its action, interaction and reaction.

Moving & Handling People
The Health Care Commission state that all personnel who have to move another person in the course of their duties must have a sound knowledge of people (manual) handling. Built around the guidelines set out in the Health and Safety at Work Act (1974) and the Manual Handling Operations Regulations (1992), the people course content is as follows

1. The Law
2. Risk Assessments
3. Employers moving and handling policy
4. Principle's of body movement
5. Banned Moves
6. Practical Moving and Handling