Learning to Care: The Care Home Staff Guide
Published on 30. March 2021
Book
Paperback/Softback
144 pages
978-1-906670-92-4 (ISBN)
Description
Learning to Care: The Care Home Staff Guideis an invaluable resource for anyone interested in pursuing a professional career in caring.
Through their dedication and commitment, care homes have demonstrated the important role they play in the UK, not only in improving the quality of life for elderly and vulnerable people, but also in the survival of the NHS, which has been particularly evident in the Covid-19 pandemic.This essential guide will appeal to care assistants currently working in a care home setting, students, those thinking of changing career, as well as voluntary carers looking after a relative or friend at home.Learning to Careis divided into three main sections: Behavioural Training, which outlines detailed training for care staff and examines attitudes, behaviour and methods, Practical Training, which focuses on essential skills and knowledge such as care planning, nutrition, and lifting, Fire Training, which examines the risks, precautions and critical procedures particularly around fire safety.Written in straightforward language and supported by helpful illustrations,Learning to Care: The Care Home Staff Guidebrings together hands-on information and insightful perspectives, covering everything carers need to know in their role. This book shines a light on the skill and competency required in this often overlooked, but crucial, sector of the healthcare industry.
Through their dedication and commitment, care homes have demonstrated the important role they play in the UK, not only in improving the quality of life for elderly and vulnerable people, but also in the survival of the NHS, which has been particularly evident in the Covid-19 pandemic.This essential guide will appeal to care assistants currently working in a care home setting, students, those thinking of changing career, as well as voluntary carers looking after a relative or friend at home.Learning to Careis divided into three main sections: Behavioural Training, which outlines detailed training for care staff and examines attitudes, behaviour and methods, Practical Training, which focuses on essential skills and knowledge such as care planning, nutrition, and lifting, Fire Training, which examines the risks, precautions and critical procedures particularly around fire safety.Written in straightforward language and supported by helpful illustrations,Learning to Care: The Care Home Staff Guidebrings together hands-on information and insightful perspectives, covering everything carers need to know in their role. This book shines a light on the skill and competency required in this often overlooked, but crucial, sector of the healthcare industry.
Reviews / Votes
All of us who are concerned with providing the highest quality of care for the elderly are also concerned about how we can ensure that proper training is given to those to whom that care is entrusted. We have reviewed the [RDB Training] package and believe it has a major contribution to make by providing care home managers and staff with a comprehensive range of basic skills critical to giving elderly people the quality of care which we would like to see become standard in this country. -- Tom Breen, Director UK operationsMore details
Edition
International
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Illustrations
95 black and white illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 170 mm
Width: 229 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
398 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-906670-92-4 (9781906670924)
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Person
Sue Brand is Managing Director of RDB Star Rating. She trained and qualified at the Middlesex Hospital in London and started the Pembroke Group, her own group of care homes, in the 1970s. She has always been committed to 'quality care' , pioneering the first training videos and books designed for the care sector 1987. She was Chair of East Sussex National Care Association and Brighton and Hove National Care Homes Association from 1992 to 2000, when the care sector was in crisis. To address the serious issues facing the care sector at that time, she founded the RDB Star Rating System. Sue has always been passionate about residents being treated with dignity and respect and has spent many years campaigning to achieve this. She is very focused and highly tenacious and uses her significant experience, her intellectual abilities, and interpersonal skills to ensure that her objectives for quality care are reached and surpassed.
Current Activities
o Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts
o Founder member of National Skills Academy
o Represents Care England on the UKAS Policy Advisory Council
o Member on the drafting panel of British Standards Institute (BSI) for Social Care
o Member of Royal Society of Medicine
o Trustee of the National Dignity Council
o Board member of the Quality Care Campaign
o Member of HASCAF (Health & Social Care Accreditation Forum)
o Cranfield Alumni
o Common Purpose Alumni
Current Activities
o Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts
o Founder member of National Skills Academy
o Represents Care England on the UKAS Policy Advisory Council
o Member on the drafting panel of British Standards Institute (BSI) for Social Care
o Member of Royal Society of Medicine
o Trustee of the National Dignity Council
o Board member of the Quality Care Campaign
o Member of HASCAF (Health & Social Care Accreditation Forum)
o Cranfield Alumni
o Common Purpose Alumni