Training for SEA Staff

27th September 2018

Take a look at how SEA provide training for our Staff

Support and Encouragement

Here at SEA we want all our staff to develop and be the best we can be. Therefore, we encourage all our staff to complete training courses. Some of the courses we provide are essential to working at SEA. However, we also want our staff to keep developing in their knowledge of different subjects.

Care Certificate

SEA make sure all of our staff have Care Certificates. A Care Certificate is an agreed set of standards that sets out the knowledge, skills and behaviours expected of specific job roles in the health and social care sectors. It’s made up of the 15 minimum standards that should be covered if you are ‘new to care’ and should form part of a robust induction programme.

E-Cert Training

First of all, we use the company E-Cert to help train our staff. We provide all our permanent staff with free training for 20 courses using E-Cert training. This ranges from mandatory courses such as Basic First Aid to courses that are specific for clients that you work with, such as Dementia Care. These courses are easily accessible to both our D/deaf and hearing staff due to the fact they are online exams and are multiple choice papers.

Diplomas / Apprenticeships

We also encourage SEA staff to gain more qualifications through working towards Diplomas and Apprenticeships. Some examples of qualifications our staff have achieved through SEA include:

• Health and Social Care
• Care Management
• Leadership for Health and Social Care and Children and Young Persons Services

Insight into the Deaf Perspective

SEA have created an inclusive workplace for all of their staff. One way in which this has been achieved is by encouraging all of our hearing staff to attend Deaf Awareness courses. SEA management recently organised an Insight into the Deaf Perspective course. Click here to have a look at a blog post about Deaf Perspective training course.

Deafblind

SEA management are currently in the process of raising awareness for Deafblind. We have a Deafblind awareness course organised for the near future, then some members of staff are going to complete Communicator Guide and Intervenor training.

Examples of other recent training SEA have provided for their staff:

1. Epilepsy awareness
2. Fire Safety
3. Brain Injury
4. Drug and Alcohol awareness
5. MAPA – for working with clients who have challenging behaviour
6. Self Harm awareness