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Health and Social Care Trainer
Job Description
Health and Social Care - Trainer
Due to continued growth and expansion,
Retain Healthcare and Retain Skills are now recruiting for a Health and Social Care Trainer to join our established team.
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 have developed an exciting 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 need to 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
There will be an expectation to travel to our all branches in Cheltenham, Chippenham and Salisbury 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 in Gloucestershire, Dorset, Avon and Wiltshire and occasionally further, would be required and applicants must hold a full clean driving licence.
In Return Retain Healthcare will offer you a generous salary, excellent training facilities and career development. Applicants will need to be DBS checked and meet our stringent recruitment criteria.
Retain Healthcare and Retain Skills are an equal opportunities employer and Endorsed by Skills for Care
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