The key to a successful care home business is recruiting and retaining good quality experienced and dedicated staff. With a desire to be one of the industries leading providers, we ensure that we are committed to staff training and development, and have appointed a group training manager to oversee all statutory training requirements are met, and to work with each homes training co-ordinators, making sure that they are aware of local training opportunities.
We endorse and advocate the NVQ scheme throughout all relevant departments within the group, including care, catering, domestic and maintenance, and ensure that staff have the opportunity to pursue training directly relevant to their job.
Our senior staff within the homes, and home managers are always encouraged to pursue professional qualifications to build on their skill set, the courses and qualifications gained are likely to be professional qualifications which are directly aimed at their homes individual client group, for example a home manager of an EMI Care Home is likely to have taken a course on dementia mapping ensuring a more specialised approach towards dementia clients etc
Our management teams are also afforded a number of training and development opportunities helping us to achieve our group aim of recruiting, retaining and developing our most important attribute – our staff, whilst ensuring that their skills and practice remain up to date and varied.