Health & Social Care Trainer

**Health & Social Care Trainer**

Role Profile
- Our priority at Assisted Lives is to ensure Service Users maintain control,_
- choice and dignity over their care. Feeling well supported and valued by reliable,_
- sensitive polite and friendly staff is what defines this service._

**ROLE PURPOSE**:
Assisted Lives is an established and well-respected provider of home care for older people and supported living and social inclusion services for people with Learning Disabilities and Mental Health concerns in Bradford.

We passionately believe in everybody's right to live the best life they possibly can regardless of the challenges they face. We use every resource available to us, including our experience, our expertise and knowledge, our creativity and imagination, and our resilience and tenacity to assist people to continue to grow and achieve their aims and life goals.

We are highly focused on the quality of our services. Everything we do and every decision we take is focused on improving the quality of our services and ensuring the best possible client experience. To this end we are recruiting a health and social care trainer to join our existing team to play a key role in delivering training to all our staff.

The responsibility of a trainer will be to facilitate and develop care staff. This includes delivering training courses within adult and children’s health and social care.

Reporting to the Service Lead, you will oversee all training needs the care staff require. You are to arrange and deliver the training. Salary will be between £32K - £34K.

**HOURS OF WORK**:
This role is full time and based at our head office. On occasions you may be required to attend training off site. Contracted 37.5 hours per week. **Full UK driving licence is essential and mileage expenses can be claimed.**

**MAIN DUTIES**

1. Deliver induction training to all new staff and refresher training to all existing staff annually.

2. Work with the Care Manager and identify any additional training needed to support our service users.

3. Source training and deliver specified training.

4. Deliver the Care Certificate training and carry out observations, ensuring person centred care delivery.

5. Keep clear records of training and attendees.

6. Carry out competency training and record all findings.

7. Set up workshops for staff on specific training.

9. Keep up to date with the Local Authority and Care Quality Commission’s training requirements. Keeping up to date with changes in legislation and training.

10. Work with clinical and other specialists to deliver training to staff.

**Staff Related Duties**

1. Ensure that newly recruited members of staff receive induction training. Including moving and handling training and medication administration training.

2. Refresher training to be delivered annually to all staff.

3. Ensure that staff training is updated as required to ensure a compliant staff team who are up to date with any current training requirements and legislative changes.

4. Ensure training equipment is suitable and arrange servicing where required for equipment. Make sure health and safety checks are carried out on all equipment used for training.

5. Support staff training in the field with hands on support where required.

6. Carry out competency checks in the field and keep accurate records of all checks.

**Care Compliance Duties**

1. Be conversant with the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) Regulations 2014 and legislation governing the service and other regulations concerning the provision of Domiciliary Care Services.

2. Be accountable for recording and reporting any compliments/complaints, incidents and concerns, and updates on the in-house database and action as necessary in line with company policy.

3. Report and escalate complaints or potential safeguarding issues to your Line Manager in line with company Policy and Procedure, including any issues regarding the legislative requirements concerning the services provided and the staff providing them.

4. Maintain all written reports and administration up to date.

**General Management Duties**

1. Always uphold Assisted Lives’ interests and reputation and in all aspects of your role.

2. Contribute proactively to care quality and the internal company culture.

3. Support senior managers and company owners in promoting the overall success of Assisted Lives.

4. Maintain close liaison with both the Care Manager and Administrators.

5. Carry out other reasonable tasks and duties from time to time as required.

**SERVICE DEVELOPMENT**
- Comfortable operating in a ‘soft’ sales capacity in order to deliver training to staff from other care companies. Promote training to local businesses. Explain our services comprehensively and follow up on all such enquiries professionally in accordance with the company’s operating processes and growth expectations.
- To capture and record all new enquiries in accordance with Assisted Lives processes.
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