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Health Education

England

The Talent for Care

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Deliverables 3&4

• Deliverable 3“establish minimum training standards for HCA’s

to reflect the increasing levels of seniority”• Deliverable 4“establish a robust baseline of HCA training

standards in 2013 and achieve a significant improvement against the baseline in 2014/15”


Key Project objectives• Focus on safety and quality of care• Build on existing best practice – recognising that

most trusts already have programmes for bands 1-4

• Needs to reflect different roles across organisations – A&E to Mental Health to Children's community services to GP practices

• Add value and consistency to these existing programmes and capture existing qualifications


What might it look like

• Build on NMTS and Cavendish Certificate of Care

• Modular “pick and mix” approach• Not prescriptive on detail of content• Needs to reflect seniority of role both in terms

of experience and advanced competency• Uses a model of Quality Assurance or

Validation


Care Certificate + Employer Induction + Nationally agreed Training Standards = “Role specific training Programme”


Flexible Learning

Assessment and Observations of

practice

E-learning

workbooks

Reflective Log

supervision

Peer support

Learning in practice


E.g. of role specificmodules – Nursing assistant

Communication Infection Prevention Personal care Physiological

observations

Nutrition and hydration

Elimination and continence

Mobility , Falls and Manual

HandlingEnd of Life

Pressure Ulcer Prevention Record keeping Dementia safeguarding


E.g. of role specificmodules – AHP assistant

Communication

Infection Prevention

Activities of Daily Living

Exercise Therapy

Nutrition and hydration

Elimination and continence

Mobility , Falls & Therapeutic

HandlingEnd of Life Pressure Ulcer

Prevention

Record keeping Dementia safeguardi

ng


? Reflecting seniority

Venepuncture

Leading class based treatment

sessions

ECG HCA Leadership

Screening&

Assessments

Second Home Birth Attendant


Links to...

• Cavendish• Skills for Health and Skills for Care• Pre – degree nursing project• Changes to Apprenticeships• Access to registered training• Greater widening participation agenda


Cavendish Certificate of Care• A Certificate of Fundamental Care should be

developed for all support workers in Health and Social Care “ to raise standards, improve transparency, reduce duplication, raise the status of caring and bridge divides in the system”


Validation of programmes• To bring

– Consistency– Portability– Quality assurance– Confidence

• Possible options include – Single validation organisation such as City and

Guilds– Multiple validators - HEIs


Questions for todayIf you are an HCA….• What difference/impact will these standards have on

you and your patients?• Are there any barriers/obstacles which may prevent

you from achieving these standards?• What support would you need from your employers

to meet these standards?


Questions for todayIf you are representing a Trust• How does this model reflect your service needs as an

organisation?• What would give you confidence in the quality of

competencies achieved by HCAs in another Trust?• What would need to happen to make this work in your Trust?• If you think there are any barriers , what are they and what

could we do to overcome them?• What opportunities do your workforce plans include for more

senior HCA roles?


And....

• Would your trust be willing to pilot a new framework?

• Do you have examples of best practice to share?


Finally..

Get into groups..

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Documents

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validation slide

system slide

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home birth attendant

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