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The Carers Scotland Training Service is a well-established and highly respected training provider.
We offer a range of training initiatives tailored to meet the needs of staff in the statutory, voluntary and private sector, particularly those staff working in the health and social care field who provide, or plan services for carers.
The courses can be offered “ in-house” tailored to your particular requirements, and have proven to be a cost-effective way of providing training to staff groups.
The recent publication of a number of key reports: Building a Health Service fit for the Future (Kerr Report); Care 21, The Future of Unpaid Care in Scotland: Headline Report and Recommendations; the National Strategy for the Development of the Social Services Workforce 2005-2010: A Plan for Action; and the Carer Information Strategies Guidance highlight the critical importance of carer awareness training for staff working with carers in the field of health and social care.
Carers Scotland has successfully developed and delivered joint training to staff working with carers in the fields of health and social care on a number of topics including legislation, carers assessments and carer awareness. Our courses seek to improve the knowledge, skills and understanding of health and social care staff thereby enhancing the quality and effectiveness of services provided by those staff. Examples of positive learning outcomes include:
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Health and social care staff having a better awareness and understanding of the rights and needs of carers.
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NHS staff being better able to identify carers, provide targeted information to carers and signpost them to local sources of support and advice.
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Carers being informed of their rights and entitlements.
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Carers being empowered and enabled to participate in the design, development and planning of services.
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Health and social care staff working with carers as key partners in the delivery of community care.
Objective analysis and evaluation of the training performance consistently evidences excellence in the course content, quality of delivery and user satisfaction. It has confirmed that the training has had a significant impact in facilitating attitudinal and practice change within staff groups for example
“ … have a better understanding of carers feelings, experience and the need for carers
assessments to look at wider picture.”
“… helped us appreciate the need for support on a personal level and not just on
a paperwork and hypothetical level.”
Our training packages come complete with comprehensive course notes including legal references and practice guidance.
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For further information on our courses please click on the links below.
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Training Calendar 2009
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Adults with Incapacity Act 2000 New Date in October
Carers Scotland comprehensive training course on the Adults with Incapacity (Scotland) Acr 2000. -
Benefits and Carers:
This course has been designed to provide health, social work and voluntary sector practitioners with an understanding of the benefits available to carers and to the people they care for. -
Black and Minority Ethnic Carers - achieving cultural competency, achieving the best outcomes
Find out about Carers Scotland's new course - BME carers: achieving cultural competency, achieving best outcomes. -
Carers & their Rights
The last ten years have seen major reform of the law as it relates to carers. This course examines how recent legislation fits in with the maze of other community care statutes, and what rights carers have as a consequence, both from social services and the NHS. -
Direct payments
This course provides an introduction who wish to gain a basic grounding on the legal principles governing direct payments. It will also provide in depth information for participants already familiar with the basic principles of the scheme. It focuses on the law and practice as it applies in Scotland -
Carers Awareness and Assessment
This course aims to raise awareness of carers’ needs. Some will have an understanding of carers issues and be working with carers on a regular basis, whilst others may have little understanding of a carers role and their possible support needs. -
In-house training
Carers Scotland can also provide cost effective in-house training -
Previous Clients
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Evaluation feedback
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Learning for Living