Live in Care Training – Progress Your Care Career With Us

We deliver high quality, up-to-the-minute Live in Care Training to all of our carers, as well as bespoke training packages for organisations and individuals. All of our Live in Care Training is delivered by our experienced in-house trainers.

Our CPD (continuing professional development) ensures that all our live in nurses and carers are trained to an excellent standard, firstly at our own training school, and then their skills and knowledge are developed through appropriate NVQ training and other educational opportunities.

The Care Certificate Programme

All candidates complete the Care Certificate with us, which provides clear evidence to all people who receive care and support that the nurse or live in care worker has been trained and developed to a specific set of 15 standards; and has been assessed for the skills, knowledge and behaviours to ensure that they provide compassionate and high quality care and support. The learning outcomes are described below.

Our CPD (continuing professional development) ensures that all our live in carers are trained to an excellent standard, firstly at our own Live in Care Training school, and then their skills and knowledge are developed through appropriate NVQ training and other educational opportunities. The career path of our staff is a priority for us, as we believe in the self-actualising process of each and every person, to the highest degree possible

Care Certificate Training Standards

Our Sunshine Care agency workers have access to bespoke and specialist Live in Care Training, events and workshop courses providing professional knowledge updates and CPD, courses will train you to:

Understand Your Role

• Understand your own role as a live in carer
• Work in ways that have been agreed with Sunshine Care
• Understand working relationships in health and social care
• Work in partnership with others, whilst living in with clients

Your Personal Development in Live in Care

• Agree a personal development plan
• Develop your knowledge, skills and understanding

Duty of Care

• Understand how duty of care contributes to safe practice
• Understand support available for addressing dilemmas that may arise about duty of care
• Deal with comments and complaints
• Deal with adverse events, incidents, errors and near misses
• Deal with confrontation and difficult situations

Equality and Diversity

• Understand the importance of equality and inclusion
• Work in an inclusive way
• Access information, advice and support about diversity, equality and inclusion

Your Personal Development

• Agree a personal development plan
• Develop your knowledge, skills and understanding

Work in a Person Centred Way

• Understand person centred values
• Understand working in a person centred way
• Demonstrate awareness of the individual’s immediate environment and make changes to address factors that may be causing discomfort or distress
• Make others aware of any actions they may be undertaking that are causing discomfort or distress to individuals
• Support individuals to minimise pain or discomfort
• Support the individual to maintain their identity and self-esteem
• Support the individual using person centred values

Communication

• Understand the importance of effective communication at work
• Understand how to meet the communication and language needs, wishes and preferences of individuals
• Understand how to promote effective communication
• Understand the principles and practices relating to confidentiality
• Use appropriate verbal and non-verbal communication
• Support the use of appropriate communication aids/technologies

Privacy and Dignity

• Understand the principles that underpin privacy and dignity in live in care
• Maintain the privacy and dignity of the individual(s) in your care
• Support an individual’s right to make choices
• Support individuals in making choices about their care
• Understand how to support active participation
• Support the individual to actively participate in their own care

Fluids and Nutrition

• Understand the principles of hydration, nutrition and food safety
• Support individuals to have access to fluids in accordance with their plan of care
• Support individuals to have access to food and nutrition in accordance with their live in care plan

Awareness of Mental Health, Dementia and Learning Disability

• Understand the needs and experiences of people with mental health conditions, dementia or learning disability
• Understand the importance of promoting positive health and well-being for an individual who may have a mental health condition, dementia or learning disability
• Understand the adjustments which may be necessary in care delivery relating to an individual who may have a mental health condition, dementia or learning disability
• Understand the importance of early detection of mental health condition, dementia and learning disability
• Understand legal frameworks, policy and guidelines relating to mental health conditions, dementia and learning disability
• Understand the meaning of mental capacity in relation to how care is provided

Safeguarding Adults

• Understand the principles of safeguarding adults
• Reduce the likelihood of abuse
• Respond to suspected of disclosed abuse
• Protect people from harm and abuse – locally and nationally

Basic Life Support

• Be able to provide basic life support

Health and Safety

• Understand your own responsibilities, and the responsibilities of others, relating to health and safety in the work setting
• Understand Risk Assessment
• Move and assist safely
• Understand procedures for responding to accidents and sudden illness
• Understand medication and healthcare tasks
• Handle hazardous substances
• Promote fire safety
• Work securely
• Manage stress

Handling Information

• Handle information

Infection Prevention and Control

• Prevent the spread of infection

We encourage all clients and locums to ensure that they regularly refresh their Live in Care Training in areas such as: Safer People Handling, Dementia Awareness, Managing Violence and Aggression, Breakaway Techniques, Physical Intervention, Basic Life Support, Safeguarding Adults and Medication Awareness.

All of our live in carers receive a Handbook and Care Certificate completion evidence when they have passed their induction programme.

Care information download

We have a range of documents to help with caring for clients. Simply click on a link below to access the file.

Continuing Professional Development

In partnership with the Royal College of Nursing, we will be promoting and protecting learning in the workplace for all healthcare professionals; to deliver specialised Live in Care Training and continuous professional development courses to our workforce with RCN specialist training officers.

Our Live in Care agency workers have access to bespoke and specialist Live in Care Training, events and workshop courses providing professional knowledge updates and CPD, courses include:

• NMC Code of Conduct
• Record Keeping
• Medication Management
• Team Building
• Enhancing Nutritional Care
• Clinical Governance

Just updating your Live in Care Training?

If you already work in care, and just want to update your training, then please call to book yourself on the very next Live in Care Training course.
To enquire about our Live in Care Training capabilities you can contact us on 0800 1777 004 or email us to jobs@sunshinecare.co.uk.

Our person-centred approach

At Sunshine Care we take training and development very seriously. As standard, all our candidates have the following Live in Care Training on an annual basis:

• Medication Administration
• Food Hygiene & Nutrition
• Manual Handling
• Safeguarding (POVA)
• Infection Control
• Breakaway
• Basic Life Support
• COSHH
• Fire Safety
• RIDDOR
• Health and Safety

We offer specialist Live in Care Training

Additional Nurse Specialist Live in Care Training courses currently available to our Nursing Locums are as follows:

• Acquired Brain Injury
• Autistic Spectrum Disorder
• Cerebral Palsy
• Controlled Medication Protocols
• Conflict Management and Disengagement
• Diabetes
• Epilepsy