Midlands Enterprise Awards 2020

15 | Midlands Enterprise Awards 2020 Sep20410 Best Healthcare Safety Training Provider – UK The health and social care sector make a huge contribution to the UK economy each year, despite the bad reputation if often receives. This sector is vital to our society and not just because of the services it provides but for the three million people it employs. In an everchanging field, it is essential that all health care workers receive learning and development opportunities in order to provide the best possible care. Care Skills UK has been providing essential training to the health and social care sector since its inception back in 2011. Their mission has always been to improve the competencies and status of health care workers from across the United Kingdom and the company has now delivered vital training to more than 50,000 people. Located in lively and cultural city of Leicester in the Midlands, Care Skills UK central location allows them to meet the needs of clients from across the whole country. The training Care Skills UK provide is mainly targeted towards health care staff working in care homes, but their client base also consists of private hospitals, private clinics, early years settings and domiciliary care providers. Unlike the majority of training providers which tend to specialise in specific areas of health and social care, Care Skills UK have the unique ability to provide training for all the required courses of health care workers. This allows their customers to use just one training provider rather than from a variety of different sources and positions the company at the forefront of health and social care training. Over recent months, the company have adapted well to the consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic and have been able to deliver all of their courses online and in real time, alongside their traditional methods of training. “This year Health & Social Care workers finally became recognised as performing essential roles in society” highlighted Justin Barrell, Director of Care Skills UK. Whilst other training providers closed their doors during the pandemic, Care Skills UK continued to deliver essential training to new and existing health workers so they could gain the competencies required, and the company has played a huge part in ensuring health care workers have been able to cope throughout the pandemic. Traditionally the health and social care sector are often overlooked and seen in a negative light, but it seems the Covid-19 pandemic has opened the publics eyes and are now seeing what an amazing job our health care workers are doing. With the raised profile of the sector this year, Care Skills UK is now providing a series of comprehensive induction programmes to new recruits to assist with the high demand of applications. Looking ahead the company are looking to expand and recruit more training staff to allow them to meet the demands of training new health care workers. Care Skills UK will continue to be devoted to the health and social care sector and remain dedicated to providing exceptional and essential training to its customers throughout the pandemic and well into the future. Contact: Justin Barrell Company: Care Skills UK Web Address: Careskillsuk .co.uk As a recognised training provider for the Heath & Social Care sector, Care Skills UK is a dedicated team of individuals who deliver vital and award-winning training to health care workers in care homes, nursing homes and residential homes across the UK. As winners of Best Healthcare Safety Training Provider in this years Midlands Enterprise Awards, we profile the firm to find out how far it has come and the training it has to offer its clients. “We saw opportunity in adversity and became more dominant and robust by rising to the challenges that the country and sector faced”.