We give all new care assistants their four day residential training course in Saxmundham, next to our head office, It covers the full induction and general care assistant training, as well as a specific course in the skills required for food hygiene, administration of medication, safer people handling and continence management.

The Care Standards Act 2000 sets out the minimum training new care assistants must have before they can start work for us.  We do more than this minimum with a mixture of distance learning and our intensive four day course.

We think it is very important to have this residential course.  Our management team can get to meet and know care assistants.  In four days of training we find out a lot about them.  You find out about us too!  You will get a strong feeling of our commitment to qualify for both care assistants and clients.

We also have other courses for care assistants who need special skills to look after clients who themselves have special needs.

We like to offer all new care assistants three or four days of practical care training before they start work on their own.  You will go to live in with a client and work for that client, under the supervision of the resident experienced care assistant.   This will give you confidence and added competence.

After this training, you may stay with that client, now on your own, or you may go to another client.