Social Care Training - Principles into Practice


Three Day Workshop


"Training and guidance for organisations and staff to help them to achieve well-being and good quality outcomes in residential care settings"


Training Aims


To enable participants to:


  • Realise how much the attitude and contribution of each member of staff affects the lives of residents
  • Understand how by using the evidence and practice tips offered by "My Home Life", well-being in residential care can be achieved
  • Explore human needs and how "relationship centred" care impacts on developing community and value in care
  • Discover what "peeling back the veneer of professionalism" offers to staff and service users
  • Develop an action plan for starting and maintaining developments

Social Care Training - Principles into Practice

"The vision is about ensuring that people's higher human needs for enrichment, fulfilment and recognition are met in care homes." - My Home Life

This training enables participants to understand how the quality of relationships and the value placed on people who use residential care are significant factors in achieving for residents a life worth living, and for staff, confidence and job satisfaction.

We provide opportunities for participants to draw on their experiences and reflect and compare their challenge the traditional concepts of quality in residential care.

The programme is run over two consecutive days with a follow up day three months later.



Two-Day Programme Structure


The two-day programme structure provides participants with opportunities to discover new and positive approaches to residential care. This is achieved through discussion, group work and presentation.



The Follow-Up Day


The follow-up day offers participants with the opportunity to showcase their achievements and to identify and overcome barriers to progress.

By the end of the third day participants will establish ways to ensure they build on success and make residential life enriching and fulfilling for those who live and work there.

The training uses and acknowledges the value of the researched findings and the materials provided and produced by "My Home Life" - a research and practice analysis led by Help the Aged in partnership with the National Care Forum and City University.
These findings underpin the principles of good practice in residential care.