Working With Community Support

A house with 3 service users living in it, each requiring 24 hour care and support, requires 6 full time and 1 part time staff members and access to a large number of bank staff, able to fill in where needed.

Each staff member receives the following mandatory training:

• LDQ (Learning Disability Qualification) Induction Award (City & Guilds): Formally assessed knowledge based qualification in “Supporting People who have Learning Disabilities”
• Studio III: managing challenging behaviour in a non-violent, gentle and dignified way
• Autism Awareness and Understanding TEACCH
• POVA (Protection of Vulnersable Adults)
• First Aid
• Food Hygiene
• Fire Safety
• Medication
• Specialist training from our Clinical Psychology team, e.g. Low Arousal
• Specialist training from our Speech and Language team, e.g. Makaton
• Any training relevant to individual service users

All care staff complete an NVQ (National Vocational Qualification) to a level appropriate to their post.

	Introduction		Aims and Achievements
	In the Background		The Houses