Home Instead Ilkley Receives High Commendation Award for Training & Development Expertise
We received a HIGH COMMENDATION in the ‘‘Best for Training and Development Expertise’ Home Care Award 2023.
Held every year, the Home Care Awards set out to recognise and reward success in the home care sector, including domiciliary care, live-in care, supported or assisted living, palliative or end of life care, dementia care and other forms of care that take place at a client’s or patient’s home.
There are 16 expertise award categories, which can be entered by all home care providers in the UK.
Driving excellence for our Care Professionals at Home Instead Ilkley
At Home Instead Ilkley, we offer a comprehensive annual training calendar to ensure that all staff – both Care Professionals and office based – receive an enhanced induction programme with ongoing learning and development opportunities.
All Care Professionals, whether they have experience in care or not, complete a 12-week programme to work through the Care Certificate and training; including our extensive four-day induction training. When Care Professionals join the team, we offer a personalised shadowing programme for them based on their experience. We also have all existing Care Professionals shadow before they meet a new client so they are prepared and knowledgeable before their first visit; this enables the client and Care Pros to build a caring relationship.
Our enhanced training programme has been developed to ensure that our staff are able to better support advanced needs of clients.
This includes:
- City & Guilds Assured Dementia training
- All care professionals who support clients with Parkinson’s complete the Parkinson’s UK Excellence Network training
- City & Guilds Assured End Of Life
In addition to Dementia and Alzheimer’s, End of Life and Parkinson’s training, we have invested in more specialist training including stoma care, catheter care, and more. This is to provide our Care Professionals with the tools they need to support our clients with more complex needs.
