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20th and 27th February 2012
we help people who
do a great job do it
better
Support for Direct Employers
Olivia Redgrave, Area Officer
Today…
 Who Skills for Care are
 An introduction to the Personal
Assistant Framework
 Tools and resources available from
Skills for Care
About Skills for Care
 Skills for Care’s strategic role is to ensure that the
adult social care workforce has the attitudes, values,
skills and qualifications in the right place to deliver
high quality social care.
 We work closely with the 40,600 organisations that
offer social care people who use services, carers and
with other key stakeholders to develop tools and
resources that meet the workforce development
needs of the sector, Skills for Care helps employers
build the skills of 1.6 million workers and plan for the
future.
A framework for supporting personal
assistants working in adult social
care
 Co-produced by Department of Health
with national partner organisations,
people who use services and their
personal assistants.
 Launched 27 July 2011 in Essex by
Paul Burstow MP
 Based on recent research
Personal Assistants’ Framework
 Delivery plan will be developed in
coming months
 Skills for Care to co-ordinate
implementation of framework in
partnership with direct employers and
other partners
Personal Assistants’ Framework
Three broad aims
 To support future growth of the personal
assistant workforce and their employers
 To address challenges to the
development of personal assistant
working; and
 To share best practice examples
Main areas of framework
 Better understanding of personal
assistant working
 Support for employers during
recruitment
 Learning and development
 Supporting personal assistants and
employers
 Enabling risk management
Skills for Care resources
Recruitment and early days:
 Personal Assistant Recruitment Toolkit
 Effective Supervision
 I Care website personal assistant case
study
 Personalisation and Partnership – a
successful working relationship
Skills for Care resources
Developing skills
 Common Induction Standards for
personal assistants
 Qualifications
 New, flexible qualifications – lots of sizes
and lots of topics
New qualifications
 Over the past year vocational
qualifications have changed
 Existing qualifications are still are valid
 Workers can undertake more
qualifications to enhance their skills
 There is a new structure for the new
qualifications
A new structure
New qualification headlines
 Level 2/3 Diploma (replaces Level 2/3
NVQ)
 Level 5 Diploma in management
(replaces various Level 4 qualifications)
 Can study towards individual units
 Shorter Awards and Certificates
available in a variety of subject areas
Developing Skills
Activity
Provision
Dementia
Continuing
Professional
Development
Mental
Health
Learning
Disability
Moving &
Assistance
Diabetes
Food Safety
& Nutrition
Skills for Care resources
Developing skills
 Common Induction Standards for
personal assistants
 Qualifications
 New, flexible qualifications – lots of sizes
and lots of topics
 Funding for units within qualifications
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Thank you
Information and joining the advisory group at
[email protected]
www.skillsforcare.org.uk
we help you improve
your workforce
Olivia Redgrave
[email protected]
Tel 01588 660761 Mob 07890514113