Funded training in February to upskill your staff

If you have staff members who are interested in upskilling or progressing within their roles, we are pleased to offer three fantastic, funded opportunities designed to support their development and strengthen your teams. 

 

Lead Practitioner in Adult Care – Level 4

This programme is ideal for senior care staff who are beginning to lead others, coordinate care, and support service improvement. It offers a strong foundation in leadership, safeguarding, person-centred care, and professional development—without the strategic demands of the Level 5 qualification.

What it covers:

• Specialist knowledge of conditions and care practices

• Leadership and mentoring skills

• Professionalism and confidence in care delivery

• Understanding of adult social care within their work setting

 

Leader in Adult Care – Level 5

This programme is designed for experienced care professionals preparing to step into senior leadership roles, such as Registered Managers or Service Leads. It’s ideal for those already managing services or about to take on strategic responsibilities.

What it covers:

• Strategic leadership and service improvement

• Governance, regulation, and compliance

• Budget and resource management

• Safeguarding, person-centred care, and partnership working

• Coaching, mentoring, and workforce development

 

Coaching Professional Level 5 

There has been a growing demand for the professionalisation of coaching to include one-to-one coaching, team coaching, leadership coaching and for coaching skills to be embedded within culture and governance infrastructures to support future ways of working.

Coaches:

• use enhanced listening and questioning skills to increase individuals' and teams' self-awareness to enable them to evaluate their own and others' strengths and development areas, allowing the individual(s) receiving coaching ("the coachee") to create and deliver bespoke actions leading to positive change.
• Use their emotional and social intelligence in an applied way to support the development of self-awareness, adaptability, resilience, wellbeing, motivation and confidence in the coachee.
• Are non-judgmental (neither denying nor affirming a coachee's perspectives and opinions) and encourage individuals to find their own solutions and appropriate ways forward.
• Work with coachees in one-to-one relationships, in person and via video or audio conferencing, to aid in their self-reflection, and may observe coachees, for example by attending a relevant meeting, to provide non-judgmental feedback.
• Work with groups and teams, to increase collective awareness and increase accountability associated with making positive change.

If you would like to discuss how these programmes could support your team, please don’t hesitate to get in touch:

Email: lorretta.wiltshire@essex.gov.uk