Short Courses

All our short courses are linked to the National Care Standards Scotland and Codes of Practice which can be found on the Scottish Social Services Council website.

You can use ILA funding towards the cost of all our short courses and SVQs.

For training costs please contact the Care Training Consortium Office.

 

Care and Support Workers

  • Advance Anticipatory Care Planning
  • Aspergers Awareness
  • Confidence Building
  • Communication Skills
  • Continence Awareness
  • Dementia Care
  • Epilepsy Awareness
  • Equality and Diversity (Attitudes and Values)
  • Food & Nutrition & PEG feeding
  • Grief and Loss
  • Health and Safety at Work
  • Legislation
  • Managing Challenging Behaviour
  • Manual Handling
  • Manual Handling Update
  • Medication Guidelines
  • Palliative Care & Bereavement
  • Protection of Vulnerable Groups
  • Roles and Responsibilities (Defensible Documentation)
  • Sexuality Awareness
  • Skin and Pressure Area Care
  • Catheter and Continence Care
  • Therapeautic/Professional Boundaries

Health and Safety Courses

  • Basic First Aid
  • Emergency First Aid
  • First Aid for Children
  • Fire Extinguisher Training
  • Food Hygiene Update
  • Health and Safety at Work
  • Manual Handling of Objects
  • REHIS Food Hygiene
  • REHIS Infection Control
  • Risk Assessment

Management Courses

  • Time Management
  • Assertiveness
  • Communication Skills
  • Delegation Skills
  • Managing Aggression and Violence
  • Chairing Meetings
  • Leadership Skills
  • Presentation Skills
  • Drugs, Alcohol, Smoking Awareness/Policies
  • Supervision and Appraisal Skills
  • Customer Care
  • Stress Management
  • Confidence Building

We have also delivered Stress Management and Massage.

In partnership with Stirling University we can assess your staff for the Home Care Practice Licence which is SQA Endorsed.

Please feel free to contact us to discuss any training requirements you may have – if we can not deliver it ourselves we may know someone who can.