Health & Social Care Skills Booster

Social care is about supporting people to maintain their independence, dignity and control. This includes providing personal and practical support to help people live their lives. Social care workers could be supporting someone with a range of disabilities, dementia or mental health conditions. They could be working in a care home, in the local community or from someone’s home. There are lots of different roles in social care depending on what you want to do, who you want to work with and where you’d like to work.

Why choose social care?

A career in social care offers long-term employment prospects, with opportunity for promotion and progression as well as job security.

Adult social care is one of the few sectors where jobs are increasing, offering significant numbers of long-term career opportunities in the current job market. There’s an estimated 1.49 million people working in social care, and by 2035 we’ll need to fill around 580,000 more jobs.

Somewhere in your community there’s a job that you can do to help others. If you like working with people, social care offers a worthwhile job that can turn into a rewarding, long-term career.

Starting your career

It doesn’t matter about your background or how old you are, if you want to help people there’s a social care job for you.

You don’t necessarily need any qualifications or previous work experience to get a job in social care. What’s really important is your values and attitude towards working with people who need care and support.

“There are lots of ways you can start work in social care, including doing an apprenticeship or traineeship, finding a job through your local Jobcentre Plus, or applying for roles online.”

Our Health & Social Care Skills Booster Training Programme

In social care you’ll be helping people to live more independently and have a better quality of life so it’s really important you have the right values.

Our Health & Social Care Skills Booster Training programme, will help to equip you to:

Treat people with dignity and respect
Good at working with others
Committed to quality care and improving lives
Willing to learn and develop at work

You’ll learn the values, beliefs and views that people hold about what is right or wrong. Vales, beliefs and views apply to all aspects of life and influence how a person behaves in different situations.

Here are some examples of the values and behaviours you might need to work in
social care.

Dignity and respect
Learning and reflection – (thinking about what you do and why you do things in a certain way)
Working together
Commitment to quality care and support

You’ll also, learn:

Roles and responsibilities, values and principles in the Care Sector
Personal Development
Effective
Communication
Record keeping and GDPR
Legislation and Regulations
The Prevent Strategy
Employability Skills including CV Writing &
Interview Techniques
Effective Teamwork
Infection Control
Manual Handling
Risk Assessments
End of Life Care
Nutrition
Challenging Behaviour
Safeguarding
Mental Health & Wellbeing
Dementia Awareness