WMCA are partnered with Partners in Care, a Skills for Care endorsed training provider based in Annscroft, near Shrewsbury in Shropshire. Katie Donegan, their Strategic Partnerships and Business Development Manager has put together a Blog below outlining what they do and how they can help us to support members of the WMCA.

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"Partners in Care was established in 2003, to represent, upskill and champion our local adult social care providers and their staff. By joining together as a partnership, we are able to amplify our voices and build understanding of the vital contribution made by local social care providers in the wider community and health system. We want adult social care to be recognised and rewarded fairly and our message is stronger when we work together.

Members of Partners in Care have easy access to a wide range of high quality, value for money training and development opportunities delivered by our dedicated training team. We also work together with local subject experts and system partners to offer training on specialist topics. Our current training offer includes a variety of courses covering:

• Moving and Handling
• First Aid
• Safeguarding
• Professional Boundaries
• Mental Capacity Act and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards
• Leadership
• Clinical
• Dementia
• Digital

We offer a blended delivery of training; our courses can be face-to-face from our training suites at Annscroft and in some cases delivered at external locations. We also offer a variety of sessions online.

In addition to our own training, Partners in Care members can now access discounted e-learning for their staff through YourHippo.com, the e-Learning and Learning Management System for the care sector.

Partners in Care and YourHippo.com have agreed a three-year partnership under which YourHippo.com will offer a 20% discount on their usual annual licence fee per learner for Partners in Care members who contract with them to provide e-learning for their staff.

Partners in Care chose YourHippo.com after an extensive selection process which considered a number of e-learning providers and their products and included ‘road-testing’ of a sample of e-learning providers’ online courses by Partners in Care staff and member care providers.

YourHippo.com, who are based in Greater Manchester, offer a wide range of e-learning courses for social care providers and their staff.

Alongside our training offer, we support the Shropshire Telford & Wrekin Integrated Care System’s Health Care Support Worker Academy in the delivery of their two-week induction programme at Telford College."

To find out more about Partners in Care:-

Telephone:     01743 860011

Email:             info@partnersincare.org.uk

Website:        www.partnersincare.org.uk

 Please mention West Midlands Care Association when you contact them.