The importance of training at Bayswood
At Bayswood Care Group we recognise the importance of professional and regular training. Training for staff starts the very first day they join the company. Carers are not allowed ‘on the floor’ to have contact with residents until they complete a full induction week delivered by Group Trainer, Sarah Eden, and Group Assessor, Joanne Ainsworth.
Induction covers a variety of topics, including how to use our assisted technology to lift and move residents with infirmities, safeguarding residents and staff, the mental capacities act, equality and diversity, and a first aid course. Once completed to the satisfaction of the trainers, new staff are teamed up with an experienced colleague and enter the homes’ floor for the first time. They will spend the next week shadowing a senior colleague to learn about the high quality of care expected from Bayswood Care Group staff.
Sarah and Joanne are the training dream team, bringing decades of care sector experience between them to Bayswood Care Group – although they probably wouldn’t want to be reminded of that fact. While Sarah handles most of the classroom-based training, Joanna continually assesses staff all staff in situ, from new starters through to our most experienced staff, Joanna’s mission is to drive up standards for each stage of a carer’s career.
Continual vocational assessment also enables carers to obtain NVQ certificates while working. NVQ Certification gained in the work-place creates a win-win-win scenario whereby: the Group invests in staff members so that they gain NVQ accreditations; the group creates a culture centred around ‘excellence in care’; and, most importantly, the residents receive qualified, technically sound and compassionate care.
Bayswood Group is one of the few care home groups to operate training to such a high level, including having experienced trainers in-house delivering NVQ Certification. The Group has a dedicated training facility at its Park View care home, which is the training hub from which best practise in care is disseminated across all our care homes.
Experts in different fields of care also visit the training facility to teach best practise. For example, Dane View’s champion of compassionate end-of-life care (a difficult and sensitive area of care) has master classes scheduled to spread the word across the Group, with delegates from each care home meeting at the training centre.
It is this collective team wisdom and knowledge sharing that helps set the Bayswood Group’s standard of care above that of many other care home companies. It is only by investing in staff that standards of care can continually be improved. Two years ago, the Directors embarked on a mission for Bayswood Group’s care to be the best. Bringing in two top quality trainers and creating a dedicated training hub means that dream is now being realised. As word spreads across the sector, the Group is seeing a fresh influx of staff seeking the support and investment in their careers that they deserve. For more information fill out the enquiry form on this website or message your nearest home via their Facebook page.
Picture: CPR Training under the watchful eye of Group Trainer, Sarah Eden