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Before you start work you will attend our FREE award winning residential Induction Training Course which runs over 5 days and is delivered by our qualified team of trainers (see below for an outline of this course).

Every 12 months you will attend update training to ensure your skills remain up to date. 

Active Assistance is now an accredited NVQ Training Centre. This means that we are able to offer NVQ training for all our staff up to Level 4 in Health & Social Care.

5 Day Residential Induction Training Course - Outline of Content

DAY ONE
  • Introduction
  • Who are Active Assistance?
  • The Care Standards Act (2000) and The Domiciliary Care Agencies Regulations (2002) and their implications for the PA
  • The Principles of Care
  • The Concept of a Vulnerable Adult
  • Abuse
  • Confidentiality
  • The role of the PA, including Job Description and Duty of Care responsibilities
  • The role of Communication in Service Provision
  • Programme overview, including post-course activities and development
  • Introduction to Spinal Cord Injury
  • The Different Types of Injury
  • Autonomic Dysreflexia
  • Functional Goals for a person with Spinal Cord Injury
  • The Activities of Living;
    • Maintaining a safe environment
    • Expressing sexuality
    • Controlling body temperature
    • Eliminating
    • Communicating
    • Breathing
    • Eating and drinking
    • Personal cleansing and dressing
    • Mobilising
    • Working and playing
    • Sleeping
    • Friendships and relationships
    • Dying and grieving
  • Communication group work
DAY TWO

  • The Management of Spasms
  • Pressure Area Care / Skin Care
  • Safer People Handling Theory
  • Risk Assessment ( Introduction to client documentation)
  • Equipment, including wheelchairs and hoists
  • Health & Safety at Work Legislation
  • Other relevant legislation
  • Principles of Efficient Movement
  • Wheelchair experience
  • Practical safer People Handling
  • Introduction to and use of a range of equipment
DAY THREE

  • Infection Control & Hand washing
  • Consent
  • Bladder Management
  • Meeting a Client and an Experienced PA
  • Bowel Management
  • Food hygiene
DAY FOUR

  • First Aid (Emergency Aid at Work)
  • CPR
  • Recovery position
  • Choking
  • Shock
  • Burns
  • Bleeding
  • Emergency removal of client from wheelchair
  • Falling & fallen client
  • Medication
  • Documentation, Record Keeping and Care Planning
DAY FIVE

  • Lone Working Responsibilities and Risk Assessment
  • Handovers
  • Adverse Event reporting
  • Fire
  • COSHH
  • Bereavement
  • One-to-one Personal Development Review
  • Course Evaluation
  • Introduction to Care Coordination and Assignment Planning
  • Employment Paperwork