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Are you 16 – 18 and looking for a career in Health and Social Care?

Tuesday, January 17th, 2012

OPPS is offering a fantastic opportunity for young people in Cambridgeshire to take their first steps towards a career in Health and Social Care. Over the next few months OPPS will be training 78 young people from the local community. The 4 week long course will award technical certificates in Health and Social Care and give those completing the course a stepping stone into the industry. The course comprises of 4 weeks classroom based training, one week work placement and is completely free! The first course will take place in Huntingdon and begin on the 20th February.

Want to find out more or enrol on the course?

You can contact OPPS via our website, email or telephone:

www.oppsdevelopments.co.uk

info@oppsdevelopments.com

01480 415930

Course details:

Certificate in Preparing to work in Adult Social Care

Modules included in the course:

- Principle of communication in adult social care settings

- Principles of diverstity, equality and inclusion in adult social care settings

- Understand the role of the social care worker

- Understand the person centered approaches in adult social care settings

- Understand health and safety in social care settings

- Understand how to handle information in social care settings

- Principle of safeguarding and protection in health and social care

- introduction to duty of care, social care or children’s and young peoples settings

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Clare Leahy, Opps assessor for Health and Social Care

Monday, January 9th, 2012

When my peer group and I were asked for a volunteer to write a short blog for the Opps website, as usual I spoke before thinking! As a ‘newbie’ to the company, and still getting my head around how the Health and Social Care apprenticeships work, I really should have hid behind my notepad!

But, here I am, with what I hope to be an interesting, and hopefully inspirational thought on the apprenticeship learning journey.

To be able to make a positive contribution to individuals needing care and support is invaluable; gaining an apprenticeship can be the beginning of your professional journey, enabling you to climb the ladder within your role, or diversify to find your ‘niche’.

Be creative in your role; use your apprenticeship as a platform for improving standards in your workplace every day. Question and reflect upon your daily practice – ‘that was ok, but what could I do better next time?’  Put yourself into the shoes of the person you are providing care for – is it good enough – if it isn’t, how can I change it.

‘If you have the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed’ (David Viscott)

 

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