This course is for managers/supervisors in adult social care services that are required to induct new staff and would like to learn more about inducting new staff effectively.  This course is for those who are currently supervising or new to supervising and would like to know more about how supervision works in practice.

Funded for Adult Social Care Staff in Brighton and Hove.

In this online content you will learn how to deal with disciplinary issues and what to do when an employee raises a grievance. Whether you’re a manager or an individual who is directly affected by these issues this content will guide you through the process.

The module covers these areas:

• Definitions of discipline and grievance
• The legal principles
• The disciplinary process
• Failing to meet standards
• Level of responses
• Disciplinary meetings
• Grievances
• Raising a grievance
• Dealing with a grievance
• Grievance meetings
• Support and appeals

Skills for Care has published an updated Developing new managers and deputies guide, designed to help adult social care providers identify, develop, and retain the next generation of leaders.

What’s included in the guide:

• Practical steps to support succession planning
• Real examples from a range of adult social care services
• Tools including checklists, interview templates, and scenario-based assessments.

With succession planning now considered as part of the Care Quality Commission’s Well-led assessments, knowing how to evidence leadership development is more important than ever.

This Disciplinary & Grievance Procedures Training Course is designed to help managers and employers ensure that their disciplinary procedures are fair, consistent and support everyone in the workplace.

By the end of the training, learners will know best practice for dealing with employee misconduct, how to conduct an appropriate investigation and disciplinary hearing, and understand the different sanctions that employees may be given. Learners will also understand what happens when an employee raises a grievance, appeals a disciplinary outcome or takes the company to an employment tribunal.

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HR Business Partnering is a widely accepted approach in today’s organisations. HR business partners must focus intently on the organisational goals of delivering value, driving change and improving stakeholder satisfaction. HR business partners need to be highly effective at engaging with others to develop the relationships needed through collaboration, aligning knowledge and enhancing the skills and capabilities to achieve business outcomes.

Short snippets of learning ranging from videos, podcasts, blogs, links to Ted Talks and much more…

Inspiration Library – Leadership Academy

Our tools and resources can help you recruit and retain people who have the right values for your organisation and the adult social care sector.

Recruitment support

Valuable people

This innovative programme is designed to give you the skills and knowledge you need to attract and develop a skilled and confident workforce. It covers digital and practical skills, values based interviewing and how to have valuable conversations, as well as one-to-one support. The programme can be commissioned by local authorities. It also includes a personalised data retention report based on your pay and training metrics to provide tailored analysis, from which we can offer recommendations specific to your organisation.

A previous attendee said: “I found the programme really useful. An excellent insight about improving our online presence and being more visible. The 1:1 support was helpful in analysing our practice and explore ways forward.”