Step Up Into Care.

Funded by the North of Tyne Combined Authority, Step Up Into Care is an initiative to ​to support peoples recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic by supporting them into meaningful activities to encourage people to re-engage with activities in leisure, well-being training, education and employment.

Step Up Into Care is made up of a series of courses centered around the care sector. Whether you have experience in this field or none at all, the courses are designed to enable you to learn new skills and get qualifications. If you are looking for employment, these courses will give you the skills you need to work in the care sector. You may just want to do the courses to gain experience and self-confidence, or to use in your everyday life.

You can do one, some or all of the courses, and support will be available every step of the way. Talk to a member of staff to get the information and advice you need. The courses available are:​

• Care planning
• Challenging behaviour
• Diet and nutrition
• Dignity and respect
• Equality, diversity and inclusion
• Heath and safety
• Information governance
• Mental Capacity Act
• Wellbeing

Care Planning

Care planning training enables you and your staff to offer a coordinated approach to the client's care, it promotes independence, empowers individuals and helps clients to be more involved in decisions about their care.

Challenging Behaviour

​Promoting an awareness of the causes and how to use communication as a tool to reduce them. The aim of this course is to help you to understand what challenging behaviour is, who it affects, and how you can reduce your clients’ likelihood of being harmed by their own actions or the actions of others.​

Diet and Nutrition

Promoting awareness of the means by which clients can be encouraged to eat a healthy diet and the need for staff to monitor and record daily intake.

Dignity and Respect

Dignity and Respect are key factors in ensuring good practice underpins all aspects of your work. Dignity has become an important part of government policy and underpins the regulations outlined in the Care Quality Commissions (CQC) Mission Statement (October 2010). This course aims to give you an overview of the importance of Dignity and Respect and how you can ensure you and your colleagues apply them in all of your dealings with others.

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

A number of legislative Acts are now on the statute books with regard to these basic human rights. In order to achieve equality for all, your staff will be encouraged to explore their own experiences of and attitude towards the nine characteristics identified within the legislative Acts.

Health and Safety

Promoting awareness of each worker’s responsibilities with regard to maintaining Health & Safety in both the working and living environments.

Information Governance

Handling information is a big part of your role. It is also a big responsibility as much of the information will be confidential. We now have more ways to communicate than ever before, including social media and mobile devices such as mobile phones and laptops. Although this makes it easier to share things with many people quickly, it also means that there is more chance of information being sent to the wrong people by mistake.

​Breaches of confidentiality are very serious in any workplace, so it is important that you know what your workplace policies are regarding storage, use, disposal and sharing of information.

Mental Capacity Act, 2005

Covers the aims of the Mental Capacity Act 2005, including the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) and identifies the carers role in ensuring its implementation.

Wellbeing

Everybody has the right to live life as they want to as long as they are not causing harm to others. The human body needs certain things to happen to ensure it remains healthy. In other words, keeping your body healthy gives you the opportunity to achieve what you want out of life. In national surveys carried out annually on wellbeing, it shows that wellbeing is at its highest when we are in our late teens and then again in the early to mid-seventies. It is much lower at other times, and at its lowest between mid-forties and mid-fifties. One of the areas looked at is happiness, which we know is linked to wellbeing.

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