The HR Learning and Development Service has a wide range of training courses available for people who work in social care organisations from the independent, private and voluntary sector.
You can also access our training if you are an Individual Employer (IE) employing a Personal Assistant (PA) to help you meet your care and support needs.
Training Directory 2018-19
The Directory outlines the Health and Social Care training programmes available, including those in the Independent, Private and Voluntary sector. The learning and development opportunities in the Directory are provided by the HR Learning and Development Service for Sheffield City Council based at the Moorfoot Learning Centre. In addition to taught courses we also provide a number of e-learning programmes.
Skills, knowledge and understanding workbooks
Workbooks are an alternative to taught courses and another way to demonstrate skills and knowledge. They provide evidence that your staff are appropriately skilled, with written records of achievement.
Available workbooks:
- Eating and swallowing
- Effective communication
- Equality, diversity and inclusion
- Food safety refresher
- Health, safety and fire refresher
- Infection control
- Mental Capacity Act
- Restraint awareness
- Safeguarding adults
- Worker safety
Contact us to discuss your options.
Funding
The HR Learning & Development Service is also a member of the South Yorkshire Social Care Development Partnership and can support IPV organisations to access Skills for Care funding, towards Health and Social Care Diplomas and a number of Certificates and Awards. Access to the funding is linked to registration with Skills for Care and acquiring a National Minimum Data Set number (NMDS-SC).
Moorfoot Learning Centre
Moorfoot Learning Centre is the main training venue for the Learning and Development Service and is used to accommodate our core training programme.
It has 6 training rooms that have been designed to provide training using presentations and Smart Board interactive learning.
All training rooms have comfortable seating with some specialist chairs available for anyone who suffers from chronic back pain. We also have two mobile high quality loop systems. Moorfoot and the Learning Centre have access for wheelchair users. There are a limited number of disabled parking bays at Moorfoot. If you need to book a space please contact us.
Please contact us as soon as possible if you have any particular requirements so that arrangements can be made before the course commences.