Skills for Care guidance ‘Ongoing learning and development for adult social care’ recommends moving and Positioning training to be refreshed frequently and a requirement for competency assessment to take place between learning. 
With the effective implementation of competency assessors, organisations can evidence that they have achieved the recommendations of best practice, as well as meeting CQC requirements for a Safe and Competent workforce.

The role of the competency assessor can support organisations to achieve their workforce development strategy and training costs may be reduced as there will be less requirement for training to be repeated when organisations can clearly evidence that their workforce is highly competent, well supported and developed though good quality, internal competency assessments.

Course Content - Day 1

• The role of the Competency Assessor

• Benefits of internal Competency Assessors

• Supporting the organisation to meet CQC standards

• The Care Act Wellbeing and Prevention principles

• How competency assessments complement workforce development plans

• Creating a learning culture

• Self-evaluation

• Maintaining own CPD

Course Content - Day 2

• Competency assessment documents

• Effective use of gap analysis

• Planning for assessment

• Communicating the process

• Assessment methods

• Making assessment decisions and provide feedback

• Maintaining records

• Completing standardisation

After attending this course, your learners will be able to:

• Promote their role as a competency assessor, within the organisation and externally

• Support others within their team to understand how competent practice can support each person’s own
  wellbeing which can prevent the need for use for other external services, for example OT’s

• Evaluate own practice and identify learning gaps to maintain own CPD

• Plan for, complete and feedback for individual competency assessments

• Compare and gather data across assessments carried out to identify training needs

• Identify and promote practice which supports the wellbeing of the people being supported through competent moving and positioning practice

• Identify and promote how the competency of the team will have contributed to practice which has prevented the need to access other services

• Build stronger working relationships and work more collaborative with Health Partners, i.e Occupational Therapists to achieve planned outcomes

As a Centre of Excellence with Skills for Care, Unique Training Solutions are best placed to deliver top quality training courses in the health, housing and social care sectors.

Course is delivered using a range of methods and resources including:

Live tutor facilitation, interactive polls, questionnaires and drawing tools, scenarios for breakout groups, questioning and participation, videos, organisational policies and procedures and end of session assessment.

Organisations should aim to evidence how learning has had a positive impact on practice. The role of the competency assessor can ensure that good practice is taking place across the business and is continuously developing through their observation, mentoring and feedback.

Naturally, it is also recommended that the knowledge gained from this course is competency assessed in the workplace.