Training
West Midlands Care Association has partnered up with various training providers to cover all of your training needs
As well as the workshops highlighted on this page, we are always open to suggestions from our members and if there is sufficient demand, we will organise workshops for you
If you have specific training requirements please get in touch as we can signpost you to one of our preferred training providers (or use the links below)
We run weekly webinars if you need help with completing the Data Security Protection Toolkit (DSPT), details of which are below. Alternatively, check out our DSPT Help pages
All Upcoming Training Sessions:
IHSCM/WMCA Members offer
The Association has signed up to be a registered 'Care Hub' for our members to be part of the IHSCM. This FREE membership supports managers by helping them to meet these challenges and understand, develop, share and celebrate good practice.
The IHSCM is a place for social care and health managers/staff/students to learn, share, and create. It's a supportive environment that aims to provide you with the resources you
need whilst also empowering you to share your knowledge with other members.
Your IHSCM membership offers you a wealth of benefits:
- CPD accredited courses
- Social care resources - Support Guides and more
- Free access to events - Including all Health and Social Care Chats
- Networking opportunities - With our partners and industry leaders
- Exclusive content created with our partners and members
- Innovation groups - becoming the solution.
The IHSCM is your place to be the voice of, and for, health and social care.
WMCA Members can join and access the IHSCM for FREE. More details here (requires members password)
Which NVQ Offer
Fully funded qualifications for the West Midlands
New staff
- New starter funding of £20 per person is to be claimed on a job offer or induction.
- Every new starter can also complete either First Aid Level 2, Fire Safety Level 2 or Food Safety Level 2 and your business will receive a further £10 so that’s £30 for every new employee, with any of the three qualifications above they can also include the Care Certificate.
Current staff
If staff complete any of the qualifications listed below your business will receive £10 and the candidate gets a qualification that lasts for 3 years apart from Infection Control or Manual Handling, as these are done on a 12 monthly basis.
You can do one qualification per employee as Which NQV pay for the course and the cash incentive to you. If they take any of the courses below they can also do the Care Certificate alongside the chosen course for free.
- Emergency First Aid
- First Aid at Work
- Food Safety Level 2
- Fire Safety Level 2
- The Care Certificate
- Manual Handling (30-minute course)
- Infection Prevention and Control + COVID-19 (20-minute course)
- COSHH
- H&S Level 2
- Customer Service Level 2
- Care Certificate
Contact Sharon Atkinson (Employer Liaision Manager for further information):
07954 136682
info@sharon-whichnvq.co.uk
Preferred Training Providers:
List of Services
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Flourish
www.greymatterlearning.co.uk
Training offered via e-learning ONLY (provider purchases a suite of courses):
- Autism Awareness
- Care Certificate
- Dementia Awareness
- COSHH
- DOLS Essentials
- Diabetes Essentials
- Dysphagia and Choking
- End of Life Care
- Equality and Diversity
- First Aid Skills
- Food Safety and Hygiene
- GDPR and Data Protection
- Functional Skills Maths and English
- Health and Safety
- IPC
- Leadership and Management Skills
- LPS Update
- And many more...
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Passion4TrainingList Item 1
passion4training.co.uk
In-person training courses offered:
- Autism Awareness Level 2
- COSHH Awareness Level 2Train the Trainer
- Diabetes Awareness Level 2
- End of Life Care
- Fire Safety and Fire Marshal
- GDPR Awareness Level 2
- Health and Safety Awareness Level 2
- Infection Control Level 2
- Mental Capacity Act and DOLS Level 2
- Moving People Safely including 'Objects Aligned to the CSTF'
- Nutrition and Fluids
- Personal and Pressure Care
- Person Centred Care Level 2
- And many more...
E-learning offered:
- Dementia- Clinical Guidelines
- Diversity Training- Celebrating Diversity in the Workplace
- Food Safety Level 2 in Catering
- Interviewing for Success- Behavioural Interviewing Techniques
- Leadership Skills for Supervisors- Communication, Coaching and Conflict
- Person Centred Care Level 2
- Tissue Viability- Wound Types/Wound Bed Preperation/Dressings and Pressure Relieving Equipment
- And many more...
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Blue Stream AcademyList Item 2
www.bluestreamacademy.com
E-learnig training courses offered:
- Arthritis Care
- Autism Awareness
- Falls Prevention
- First Aid
- Mental Capacity Act
- Infection Prevention Contol (Tier 1 and 2)
- Pressure Ulcer Awareness and Management
- Safeguarding Adults Levels 1-3
- Sepsis Awareness
- And many more...
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Partners in Care
www.partnersincare.org.uk
In-person training offered:
- Continence and Catheter training for Care Assistants
- Emergency First Aid
- First Aid at Work
- Moving and Handling
- Safeguarding Adults
- Dementia (Dementia, Delirium & Dehydration)
- And many more...
E-learning courses offered:
- Mental Capacity Act/DoLS
- Hydration
- Professional Boundaries in a Care Setting
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Realise Training
www.realisetraining.com
E-learning training offered:
- Apprenticeships in Health and Social Care
- FULLY FUNDED Level 3 Diplomas in Adult Social Care in Birmingham, Coventry, Dudley, Sandwell, Solihull, Walsall and Wolverhampton
