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National Conference: #StrongerTogether

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Date: Thursday 18th September 2025
Time: 09:30am 
Venue: Venue 360, Luton, Bedfordshire

This event brings together professionals from across the care sector to discuss the key challenges facing social care SMEs and explore collective responses. The programme includes panel discussions on some of the most urgent issues currently shaping the sector.

Discussion topics include:

  • #ProvidersUnite – unity, advocacy, and action
  • Workforce – recruitment, retention, well-being, and international recruitment
  • Fair Pay Agreement – exploring sustainable pay in social care
  • The Casey Report – what it means for care and community cohesion
  • Regulation – updates and provider challenges
  • Digital – how social care is adapting
  • National challenges – systemic issues impacting care SMEs

The conference offers a space for reflection, connection, and shared learning. Attendees will also have the opportunity to network and take part in thought-provoking discussions.

Delegate rates:

  • £40 – Members
  • £60 – Associate Members
  • £80 – Non-Members

Tea, coffee, lunch, and free parking are included.

To book or find out more, email [email protected] or call 01634 716615.

Click here to find out more →

RM12: The new leadership programme for registered managers

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RM12 is a practical, year-long programme from Skills for Care, designed for registered managers, deputies, and aspiring leaders in adult social care. With just three hours each month, this supportive and structured course gives you space to reflect, grow, and lead with confidence. Each monthly session explores a key leadership theme, from supervision & goal setting to effective communication & conflict resolution, all grounded in your real-world experience.

What you’ll gain:

  • Practical leadership tools you can apply straight away
  • Greater self-awareness and resilience
  • A supportive peer network of fellow managers
  • Insight into real-life leadership challenges and solutions
  • Lasting skills to reduce staff turnover and improve team culture

Session delivery:

  • One session per month: Each interactive session takes place online from 09:30am – 12:30pm
  • Small cohort: Maximum of 20 participants per programme to support meaningful discussion and connection
  • Ongoing reflection: After each session, you’ll apply what you’ve learned in your workplace and share reflections with the group.

Next cohort: Tuesday 1st July 2025 – Tuesday 2nd June 2026 .

Click here to find out more about this programme →

Outstanding Medication Management For Care Homes and Community Settings Masterclass

Written by Juliet Smith on . Posted in Policies and procedures for managing health and safety in services. Leave a Comment

Join The Medication Training Company online on Tuesday 18th March 2025, from 9:25am to 3:15pm, for a practical masterclass on medication management, led by pharmacist John Greene. Designed for care home managers and senior staff, this session covers:

1) How to manage and reduce the risk from medication errors

  • How common are mediation errors?
  • What is ‘Just Culture’
  • A focus on systems
  • Capturing error data
  • How the safest care providers achieve harm reduction.

2) How to attain and maintain top ratings from CQC for managing medicines

  • The top 12 medicines inspection areas targeted by the CQC
  • How to achieve good or outstanding ratings, and stay out of requires improvement / inadequate
  • An introduction to an exclusive medicines audit tool.

For more details or to pre-book, please click here.

Medication Errors – learning from errors to reduce harm

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This course from The Medication Training Company aims to teach health and social care professionals how manage, report and learn from medication incidents. The course will run online via Zoom on 17th December 2024, 21st January 2025, and 5th February 2025 between 09:30am – 13:00pm.

Learning outcomes:

  • Understand why it’s best to focus on harm reduction rather than trying to reduce medication errors
  • See errors as opportunities to learn (OTLs)
  • See how some of the world’s safest care providers achieved a reduction in harm from errors
  • Create a reporting system to ensure the whole organisation learns from incidents
  • Outline what an ‘outstanding’ incident reporting system looks like to CQC (KLOE S6)
  • Explain which medication incidents need reporting to Safeguarding and CQC
  • Use the Incident Decision Tree to understand when staff need support vs intervention
  • And more…

Click here to book your place →

Compassionate Leadership Training for Managers and Leaders

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Compassionate leadership is associated with enhanced learning and innovation, lower staff stress, and improved patient care. Drawing on the research of Professor Michael West and other experts, this face-to-face training programme is for health and social care leaders who are looking to cultivate compassion for themselves and the people they lead.

If you want to find out about how this course could help you and your team, you can click here to access a short video sharing first-hand accounts from people who have done the training. There is also a document outlining the programme structure and content here. 

Course format:
This course consists of six weekly sessions, each lasting two hours, along with several optional two-hour online consolidation sessions designed to reinforce your practice and learning. The curriculum integrates mindfulness and compassion practices during each session, fostering a space for reflection and discussion. Participants are also encouraged to engage in mindfulness and compassion exercises at home, aimed at nurturing compassion for themselves and the individuals they lead and collaborate with.

Course dates:
This course runs on Thursdays from 30th January 2025 – 13th March 2025 between 15:00pm – 17:00pm. There is no session on 20th February 2025.

Venue: East Brighton Community Mental Health Centre, Pankhurst Avenue, Brighton
Cost: £200
Suitable for: Anyone in a leadership or management role in a health and social care.

Click here to find out more about this course →

Evidencing CQC safe and effective staffing through workforce planning

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This online seminar is designed to help you implement effective workforce planning strategies, ensuring safe staffing levels and enabling your service to consistently deliver high-quality, person-centred care. Skills for Care will be running the seminar on 21st November, 18th December, and 14th January between 09:30am – 15:00pm.

What will this seminar cover?

  • What workforce planning is
  • The latest and most-up-to-date information about the factors that can affect an organisations workforce
  • How to workforce plan, using Skills for Care’s practical workforce planning tools and resources
  • How to use data to shape and refine a workforce plan.

Click here to find out more and book →

Leadership and management modules with the University of Chichester

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The University of Chichester recently sent out their 2024/5 course brochure detailing some of the CPD options that are currently open for applications. The modules listed below are all available to study in-person at University of Chichester, Bishop Otter Campus as part of the MA Advanced Professional Practice offer and cost £740 per module.

Developing Professional Leadership (APP04)
Course dates:
Wednesdays, 10:00am – 16:00pm

  • 26th February 2025
  • 19th March 2025
  • 9th April 2025
  • 30th May 2025 (assignment hand-in)

Click here to find out more about this module →
Click here to apply to study module APP04 →

Developing Professional Practice (APP05)
Course dates:
Wednesdays, 10:00am – 16:00pm

  • 29th January 2025
  • 12th February 2025
  • 5th March 2025
  • 2nd April 2025 (assignment hand-in)

Click here to find out more about this module →
Click here to apply to study module APP05 →

Professional Agency and Identity (APP30)
Course dates:
Wednesdays, 09:30am – 15:30pm

  • 25th September 2024
  • 9th October 2024
  • 23rd October 2024
  • 6th November 2024
  • 4th December 2024 (assignment hand-in)

Click here to find out more about this module →
Click here to apply to study module APP30 →

Professional Culture, Safety and Quality (APP31)
Course dates:
Wednesdays, 09:30am – 15:30pm

  • 22nd January 2025
  • 5th February 2025
  • 26th February 2025
  • 12th March 2025
  • 9th April 2025 (assignment hand-in)

Click here to find out more about this module →
Click here to apply to study module APP31 →

Interprofessional Team Working (APP32)
Course dates:
Wednesdays, 09:30am – 15:30pm

  • 14th May 2025
  • 21st May 2025
  • 4th June 2025
  • 25th June 2025
  • 23rd July 2025 (assignment hand-in)

Click here to find out more about this module →
Click here to apply to study module APP32 →

To find out more about any of the modules above please contact [email protected].
Click here to download the brochure to find out more about these modules →

Skills for Care CQC seminars

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Skills for Care offer a series of online workshops that cover a range of areas related to the CQC, and the content has been updated to reflect the CQC Single Assessment Framework. Please find the upcoming workshops below:

Improving your CQC rating seminar + practical toolkit
Date: Tuesday 22nd October 2024
Time: 10:00am – 15:30pm
Delivery mode: Online via Zoom
Cost: £120+VAT per person (10% discount available for ASC-WDS account holders).
***Registration will close for those who wish to pay by invoice on 5th October 2024 and will close 12th October 2024 for credit card payments.
Description:
‘This interactive seminar is for services who have fallen below CQC standards and are looking for practical ways to recover. You will learn about tried and tested ways to successfully implement improvements.’
Click here to book →

Being prepared for CQC inspection seminar + practical toolkit
Date: Thursday 14th November or Wednesday 11th December 2024
Time: 10:00am – 15:30pm
Delivery mode: Online via Zoom
Cost: £120+VAT per person (10% discount available for ASC-WDS account holders).
***Registration will close for those who wish to pay by invoice on 28th October 2024 and will close 4th November 2024 for credit card payments.
Description:
‘This interactive seminar will help you to be best prepared for your CQC assessment. You will learn about successful ways to prepare your service to meet or exceed CQC expectations.’
Click here to book 14th November →
Click here to book 11th December →

Delivering outstanding care seminar
Date: Thursday 23rd January 2025
Time: 10:00am – 15:30pm
Delivery mode: Online via Zoom
Cost: £120+VAT per person (10% discount available for ASC-WDS account holders).
***Registration will close for those who wish to pay by invoice on 6th January 2025 and will close 13th January 2025 for credit card payments.
Description:
‘This interactive seminar is for services who want to deliver the highest standards of care. You will learn about what is needed to go beyond providing good care and demonstrate your care is worthy of an Outstanding rating.’
Click here to book →

Click here to find out more about Skills for Care’s seminars →

Upcoming course: Managing and Administering Controlled Drugs in Community Settings

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The Medication Training Company are offering an online course aimed at managers in community care settings such as domiciliary care, supported living, shared lives and personal assistants to teach you how to put in place sensible (and achievable!) controls when managing and administering controlled drugs in the community.

Date: Wednesday 11th December 2024
Time: 09:30am – 13:00pm
Delivery mode: Online
Cost: £75+VAT
***WSPiC members can receive a 10% discount by quoting WSPIC10 & your membership number.

What will this course cover?

  • The legislation and best practice (or lack of!) that govern the management of controlled drugs
  • Why some medicines are classified as controlled drugs
  • The different schedules of controlled drugs, and which CDs fit into which schedules
  • How to establish how to identify the schedule of a CD
  • How to risk assess the controls needed for a CD
  • And more…

Click here to find out more about this course →

Commit to reducing falls in your service with this ‘Action Falls Train the Trainer’ course

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The ‘Action Falls Train the Trainer’ online course is aimed towards health and social care professionals who wish to train, mentor and enable care home staff in implementing the Action Falls programme. The course will take approximately 5 weeks based on 1 hour per week of study, and involves both self-directed learning and scheduled webinars featuring subject matter experts (dates TBC).

Course highlights:

  • Learn to apply the Action Falls assessment, which has been recognised by NHS England as best practice
  • Receive the Action Fall materials, that you can use in your practice
  • Engage in meaningful discussions with peers during and on completion of the course
  • Stay updated on the latest falls-in-care-homes research and an opportunity to get involved in the research.

Click here to find out more about this course →

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