Embark Learning Care Academy is a regional training provider with a variety of courses for new or experienced carers to cater for every requirement.
Embark Learning Care Academy helps carers, new or fully qualified, develop and achieve nationally recognised qualifications and has done so, with great success, for the last 10 years, throughout the West Midlands.
Everyone starts a career journey somewhere and, as no two are the same and every health and social care professional has their own challenges to face and routes to follow, Embark Learning Care Academy ensures it can adapt to these differing needs with a mix of practical and academic work.
The company offers more than 100 mandatory, recommended, clinical and train the trainer courses in the health and social care sector, all of which are carefully crafted and adapted throughout, to accommodate for the changes that occur in the sector.
Its pioneering course, Step Into Care, is one of the most popular courses Embark offers, and it’s a four week accredited, pre-employability programme, which is completely free of charge and will help new carers achieve a variety of courses and qualifications to make them fully compliant to work under CQC Regulations. Modules include Level 1 Certificate in Introduction to Health, Social Care and Children’s and Young People’s Settings, Emergency First Aid, Safeguarding, Role of the Social Care Worker, Medication Awareness, End of Life, Mental Health Awareness, Moving & Handling and more.
Once this training has been completed, learners understandably want to pursue a career, which is where Embark’s partner, Fairway Homecare, which specialises in placing carers into healthcare career opportunities, steps in. The newly qualified carers will have a guaranteed interview with Fairway who will then place them into work, whether that’s domiciliary care or working in one of the many care homes in the West Midlands.
There is also a strategic focus on ‘in work’ progression and continual professional development. With a need to increase the number of West Midlands residents in work up to level 3 qualifications, a range of specialist courses are on offer aimed at specific service user groups that focus on particular illnesses or difficulties people may have, such as courses on Understanding Mental Health, Understanding Autism, Understanding Dementia Care, and there are also clinical courses people can take including Catheter Care, Medication Awareness, End of Care, Stoma Care and others that are more medical oriented.
Head of Operations, Eyad Hanash, commented: “We’re extremely proud of the range of courses we offer, and we are sure that if carers wants to begin their career or progress it, we can help them grow and have a suitable course for them. We have tremendous success with our courses, as the learners are able to understand the modules in a way that works for them, whether that’s visual or hands on learning and we’re able to encourage people who may lack in confidence and tell them that they can do it and they’ll be great at it.
“Unfortunately, we know from experience that there are carers in this industry that do not have any formal qualifications, and to us, that’s a bit troubling, because these are vulnerable people we’re looking after, so they deserve the best carer that’s competent and trained to a high level. However, we are seeing more and more people joining our courses who are willing to learn and we’re grateful to be a part of their journey with them.”
Please visit https://embarklearning.co.uk/ to find out more.
