Home care agency opens academy giving practical training in hoists, wheelchairs and first aid mannequins

Home care provider, Carefound Home Care, has opened a new training academy to deliver specialist training and professional development to its staff.

The Carefound Home Care Training Academy based in the company’s offices in Harrogate has been designed to simulate how to care for somebody in their own home and enables staff to receive practical training in using equipment such as hoists, wheelchairs and first aid mannequins.

It will provide employees with training in the new national qualification - the Care Certificate - as well as specialist areas including mobility, medication management, dementia and Parkinson’s.

Oliver Stirk, director at Carefound Home Care, said: “At Carefound Home Care we believe that offering our staff the best possible training and ongoing support is fundamental to delivering a high quality, personalised, consistent home care service to our clients. This is why we invest so much time, energy and resource into these processes and are delighted to have opened our local Training Academy to support this.

“There has been much negativity around the social care sector over recent years however what our amazing team at Carefound Home Care is doing proves that where staff are professionally supported and developed, and care is bespoke and designed around clients’ and their families’ needs, elderly people can live happily at home for longer with less reliance upon GP services and hospital / residential care admissions.”

Carefound Home Care has also developed its own bespoke training programme to ensure that new people who join the team learn how to deliver the very best, person-centred care and existing staff can continually develop their skills through ongoing professional development and diplomas.

This includes specialist courses developed in consultation with experts such as the Contented Dementia Trust, Alzheimer’s Society, Prescription Training, Solicitude Training and Parkinson’s UK.

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