Training and Development, Video, Toolkits

Learning Disability Providers Toolkit

Version 2 of the Toolkit to help providers move towards Supported Living

Technology Day - Drop In sessions 3rd March

Date: 
March 3, 2010 - 10:20am - 12:20pm
Date: 
March 3, 2010 - 1:00pm - 2:45pm
Venue: 
Burrview Hall, Queens Rd , Walton on Thames KT12 5AB

"Surrey County Council have asked SCA and others to encourage people with a LD (who have regular access to a PC) and those people that support them to come to one of the drop in sessions. SCC say they definitely need to hear their views The day is split in two with all presentations repeated, so people can drop into the event for a morning or afternoon and give their views.

TSI NMDS Flyer 2009/10

The Grange & Walton Cottage - Rising to the top

After leaving full-time education with seven GCSEs and a BTEC National Diploma in Business and Finance, Parveen Akram set her sights on qualifying as a social worker. Initially she worked as a care assistant in a residential home for the elderly and in 1998 moved to The Grange & Walton Cottage, a home for 15 adults with learning disabilities outside Woking, to gain experience of clients with special needs.

As the home had no vacancies for care support staff, Parveen took on a part-time role driving clients to daytime activities. Within six months, Ken Thilaganathan, owner of The Grange & Walton Cottage, recognised Parveen’s potential and promoted her to a full-time support worker.

Training

Old Rectory & The Old Hall - Investing in Carers

Old Rectory is a 30-bed nursing home in Ewhurst and The Old Hall is a residential home accommodating 40 clients in Send. Between them the two homes employ 110 staff ranging from home managers and Registered General Nurses to care assistants and administrative staff.

Getting Started

Some ten years ago, Paddy Geoghegan, who owned Old Rectory, had the foresight to recognise that the Care Sector was changing and with it a need for staff at all levels to possess recognised qualifications. He appointed, Heidi Cox, who was then Assistant Matron, to a newly created position of Training Manager and the business began investing in in-house training.

Rodwell Farm - Caring Starts With The Staff

Rodwell Farm nursing home is in Row Town, near Addlestone and has been owned by Ernie Graham and Dr Karen Graham since the mid 1990s. Today it provides beds for 46 clients, covering both older people with frailty/confusion and younger people with physical disabilities. The home also offers day care and respite care facilities and employs a staff team of around 60.

Getting Started

During the late 1990s, and in common with many other nursing and care homes, Rodwell Farm found itself faced with ongoing staff turnover, which in turn, added to the business’ cost base.
Home owner Ernie Graham and then, staff nurse, Karen Raggett were keen to find a way to retain staff and to ensure that the home’s employees were equipped with both the skills and confidence to perform well in their jobs.