Creating a culture of continuous professional development in services

The government is launching the new Adult Social Care Training and Development Fund. This guidance details the government’s offer, ahead of the launch of the digital online claims service, with the aim of enabling the adult social care workforce and ASC employers to be able to start to plan their training and development for the financial year 2024 to 2025.

Whether you are an experienced manager who wants to refresh or brush up your skills, a soon to be manager who wants to be prepared for the tasks ahead, or simply an existing manager who has never been shown how to do appraisals, this module has been specifically designed to cater for your needs and equip you with the skills to be able to carry out effective appraisals with your staff.

Brighton & Hove care staff

This 10 minute video looks at how to maximise the potential of your staff by taking a strengths-based approach to their development.

To access resource register via the Brighton and Hove Learning Zone.

As an employer or manager, you need to understand the learning and development needs of your individual workers, teams and the service.

Outstanding providers tell us that they carefully plan learning and development and empower staff to develop their skills through training and personal development to help drive improvement.

Download our checklist to identify talent. Know what to look for in your organisation.

This toolkit will support you to offer a robust induction to fully support new starters and ensure you create the right first impression. The checklists at each stage provide lists of activities to consider with signposts to resources and templates which you can tailor. It draws heavily on what providers across health and social care tell us works for them.

Care Quality Commission (CQC) requires care providers to have a formal system to assess staff competence to administer medication. This course provides the knowledge and skills to enable care providers to create and manage a formal system to assess staff competence in administering medication.

This in-person course is funded for adult social care staff working for Brighton and Hove City Council, and staff working in adult social care provider services that contract with Brighton and Hove City Council.

This course will help you to develop and implement a medicines policy and associated audits, as well provide a general update on any new local/national legislation and guidance.

This in-person course is funded for adult social care staff working for Brighton and Hove City Council, and staff working in adult social care provider services that contract with Brighton and Hove City Council.

This guide has been updated in line with the Workforce Strategy for Adult Social Care. It covers statutory and mandatory knowledge and skills in a variety of topic areas based on a review of legislation, guidelines, statutory guidance, standards and recommendations.

Ensuring your workforce are properly supported through a thorough induction reduces the risk of employees feeling out of their depth, in turn reducing their stress and increasing their enjoyment of their job.

A supportive induction helps new team members fit comfortably and safely into your organisation.

Shadowing, mentoring, buddying, peer support, values-based learning and additional training around core skills and specific health conditions can all be included in the induction.