Training & Development for you and your PA

Training and Development for you and your PA

If you are in receipt of a Direct Payment or Personal Health Budget and employ Personal Assistants (PAs) it is important that you help them to be able to fulfil their role to the best of their abilities.

This means that they need to have training in all aspects of the tasks you want them to do for you.

For example COOKING – they will need to know about the following

• Food Hygiene –  keeping the food you eat safe
• Fire – a pan fire
• Infection Control – bacteria
• Health and Safety – slips trips and falls
• First Aid – burns
• Moving & Positioning – bending down and stretching

I bet you didn’t think that this simple task would take so much training!

ALL of this training and more is available FREE to you through Surrey Independent Living Council (SILC) and Teme Training.

We receive funding from Skills for Care to put on various training courses throughout the year. We are a Skills for Care Endorsed Training Provider and are an Accredited Training Centre through TrainerCourses. Courses are accredited at levels 1 and 2.  Our trainers are qualified and experienced in the field of Health and Social Care and have an holistic approach.

We also provide training in other skills that your PAs may need.

• Communication
• Person Centred Care
• Dementia
• Autism
• Epilepsy
• Behaviour that Challenges
• Death, Dying and Bereavement
• Values
• Resilience and Wellbeing
• Mental Health

We provide bespoke Moving and Positioning Training* for you and your PAs in your own home, using your own equipment.

Good Boss Training is available for IEs. These are interactive sessions and you will get to meet other IE.

We provide training in

• Induction for PAs
• Supervision
• How to say ‘No’
• Dealing with HR issues

*Subject to Skills for Care Individual Employer Funding

If there are any courses you would like, please do contact us as we train in over 30 different subjects.

Christina Candey – a Surrey IE who won the Skills for Care ‘Best Individual Employer’ Award 2017 says:

“All of my staff have been trained by SILC and I attend the Good Boss Training. The Training Team are absolutely fantastic.  They have time to listen to my needs and those of my PAs and work with us to ensure that everything we want is covered in the training. I would highly recommend them for all of your training.”

Keep your eye on our website www.pafinder.org.uk/training  for our planned courses.

Please contact Bob Hall who will be able to discuss your requirements with you.

training@surreyilc.org.uk

07514 093616