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Trainer

£22000 - £24000 per annum Paid Holidays, Pension, Car Lease Scheme
 

Job Description

Trainer - Health and Social Care, Cheltenham (South West)

Following successful growth and expansion, Retain Healthcare are now recruiting for a Health and Social Care Trainer to join our established team initially on a permanent basis. This is an opportunity for you to join a creative and forward thinking team, delivering high quality health and social care training to services across the South West.


You will have to opportunity to work with the Management Team who are developing a new model of care and support. This will involve working with staff and managers to create, deliver and monitor training programmes to all sectors of the workforce including residential care, learning disabilities, home care and agency bank staff. This is to train internal and external candidates.

The Person - You will be qualified/competent to deliver a range of courses including:

  • Moving and Assisting
  • Emergency First Aid at Work
  • Basic Life Support
  • Epilepsy and Buccal Midazolam
  • Induction Training
  • Safegaurding Adults at Risk
  • Safe Handling of Medicines

You will have the experience and able to demonstrate skills in delivering quality training. You will be self-motivated, have good time management skills as well as able to use your initiative within the scope of the job role. It would be desirable that your experience includes supervisory/management skills in Health & Social Care.

This role is mainly based in Cheltenham/Gloucester area however there will be an expectation to travel to our other branches in Salisbury, Chippenham, Bristol, Yeovil as well as external organisations to deliver training therefore a full driving licence is required.

The successful candidate must hold a relevant Health & Social Care qualification minimum of level 3 be a competent user of IT including Microsoft Office applications / Powerpoint. Hold relevant training qualifications to deliver sessions. Minimum of PTLS.

Travel to various locations as required - including but not necessarily limited to - Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire, Avon and Wiltshire and applicants must hold a full clean driving licence.

In return Retain Healthcare on behalf of Retain Skills will offer you a generous salary, excellent training facilities and career development. Applicants will need to be DBS checked and provide at least 3 references. Retain Healthcare are an equal opportunities employer.

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