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Training Courses
West Midlands Care Association,
the one stop shop for your training needs
WMCA can now offer a range of courses delivered by our staff to your staff.
If you can't find what you are looking for below, please get in touch. As well as our in house trainers, we work with a range of local training providers who offer additional courses alongside those highlighted below
Most of our courses are delivered online but subject to numbers and venue suitablility, we can also deliver on your premises.
WMCA can now offer our members a range of regular training courses -- to ensure both your new and existing members of staff are well equipped to carry out their roles.
These courses are delivered by our staff - who all have previous experience of delivering care sector training - on a regular basis and details of these courses are outlined below.
Members benefit from reduced rates.
There is still funding available through Government to cover certain elements of training costs. Details of the Learning Development Support Service (LDSS) are below.
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.
We run weekly webinars if you need help with completing the Data Security Protection Toolkit (DSPT), check out our DSPT help pages
If you don't see what you are looking for, contact us, we may be able to signpost you to an alternative training provider
Available Courses:
Oliver McGowan Training
WMCA have partnered with several local training provider to offer our members both Tier 1 and Tier 2 Awareness of Learning Disability and Autism Training (Oliver McGowan Training)
The Government have also made funding available through the LDSS to go towards covering the costs
Our member price is within the LDSS funding envelope so you can reclaim the full costs
Click here for more details
All Upcoming Oliver McGowan training dates
Care Certificate
The modules below are mapped to the Skills for Care ‘Care Certificate’.
They can be used as part of an induction, refresher or as the theoretical component of the Care Certificate. The courses are interactive, engaging and discussion driven with questioning throughout to ensure learning is achieved. At the end of each session an interactive assessment is conducted to solidify the learning experience, ensuring professionals are well-equipped to deliver high-quality care
Click the buttons below for details of each course along with available dates
All Upcoming Care Certificate training dates
Management Training
We also offer a suite of training modules aimed at managers, deputies, seniors, team leaders or any staff who are being developed into a management or supervisory role
These courses are valuable for both new and experienced managers because they develop core and up‑to‑date leadership, regulatory, safety and decision‑making skills, ensure consistent management standards, promote reflective practice, support organisational resilience and ultimately improve the quality and safety of care delivered.
Click the buttons below for details of each course along with available dates
All Upcoming management training dates
Train the Trainer Courses
We can offer Train the Trainer sessions on various subjects.
These intense courses will equip your training staff to successfully deliver the course content to your other staff
As with all our training offerings, if you can't find what you are looking for on this site, please contact us and we'll see what we can do
All Upcoming Train the Trainer training dates
Click the button below to see our full training calendar
If you don't see what you are looking for above, contact us,
Annual Data Security Training:
Training staff annually in data security and protection and cyber security.
It is good practice that staff complete annual data protection and security training.
DSPT Question 3.2.1 (which is a mandatory question) is a requirement for at least 95% of staff, directors, trustees and volunteers in your organisation to have completed training on data security and protection, and cyber security, in the last twelve months. To help you with this Digital Care Hub have produced a range of FREE Learning and Training resources with can be accessed by clicking the button below
Institute of Health and Social Care Managment
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)
ASC WDS
The Adult Social Care Workforce Data Set (ASC-WDS) is a free online data collection service that covers the adult social care workforce in England.
Join the 20,000 care providers already using the free ASC-WDS service.
The service helps care providers to;
- Run their business
- Manage their staff data and training needs
- Produces reports, and a training matrix with reminders when training renewals are due
- Shares data with CQC or Local Authority (optional)
- Claim funding for training via the Learning and Development Support Service (LDSS) - See below
- Benchmark your organisation against other local providers (all data is anonymised)
The data collected is vital to the Government, the Department of Health and Social Care, local authorities and the Care Quality Commission as it allows them to plan, fund and monitor the sector.
Learning Development Support Scheme (LDSS)
Eligible adult social care employers in England can claim staff training costs from the Adult Social Care Learning and Development Support Scheme (LDSS).
The LDSS is available for non-regulated care staff, including deputy and Care Quality Commission-registered managers and agency staff, within the adult social care workforce. Staff taking the training must be in qualifying roles. You must show evidence of the spend on training.
There is guidance available on the Government website
This guidance covers:
- the eligibility criteria for being able to make claims through the scheme
- how the funding can be used, including the training courses and qualifications within scope of the scheme
- when the funding will be available
- the reimbursement rates
- the transition arrangements from the Workforce Development Fund
details on how adult social care employers can access the online claims service and make a claim
